A survey circulated by a far-right-linked student group has sparked outrage, with educators, historians and veterans warning that profiling teachers for their political views echoes fascist-era practices. FEDERICA ADRIANI reports
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The ongoing struggle for the NHS
Although there have been setbacks in healthcare organising, nurses and other NHS workers are becoming more active and engaged in their trade unions and this is still a beacon of hope, says HELEN O’CONNOR
GROWING CONFIDENCE: Ambulance workers from the GMB gather on College Green, Westminster amid the recent industrial action across the NHS
In reopening relations with China, the PM showed an uncharacteristic grasp of power, proportion and Britain’s diminished place in the world – a lesson many in Westminster still refuse to learn, says ANDREW MURRAY
Dockers from Italy, Greece and beyond will stage co-ordinated port blockades on February 6, declaring ‘we don’t work for war’ – in a call in solidarity with Palestine. ALFIO BERNABEI reports
The British Prime Minister’s Beijing visit marked the end of a long diplomatic hiatus and produced tangible, if limited, economic results, says KEITH BENNETT
Schoolchildren who joined a nationwide anti-Trump walkout learned more outside the classroom than in it but could still be penalised, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
The suicide of Tamara Jade Logon after her disability benefits were wrongly withdrawn is the latest in a series of deaths in which coroners have cited DWP failings, exposing a pattern of preventable harm, says DYLAN MURPHY
AS ANYONE who has worked on the front line of the NHS and ambulance trusts knows, comprehensive healthcare in this country is being eroded by aggressive cutbacks, restructures and privatisation.
Recent national strike action shone a light on the unprecedented scale of the struggle to deliver care safely. After decades of cutbacks there are not enough staff or beds to cope with demand in the NHS. And the policies of successive governments are to blame.
It is simply staggering, and reflective of decades of lull in trade union activity, that field medicine conditions are becoming normalised in one of the richest countries in the world.
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