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The unions are right to flag up how during the pandemic the digital divide has left too many children with no access to schooling. We must stand with them, says CLAUDIA WEBBE

I STAND in full solidarity with and support all trade unions who were demanding that all schools and colleges move immediately to online learning. 

We on the left must learn from the demonisation of education unions in recent weeks and indeed throughout this pandemic. At times, it has been reminiscent of the brutal right-wing campaign against the miners’ union in the 1980s. 

Across the country, the NEU, NASUWT, Unison, Unite and many other teaching unions have consistently stood up for children and working families. 

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