TUC general secretary PAUL NOWAK speaks to the Morning Star’s Berny Torre about the increasing frustration the trade union movement feels at a government that promised change, but has been too slow to bring it about
Macron’s cynical ploy
This weekend’s march in Paris ‘against anti-semitism’ is a divisive smokescreen to allow the president to pose as a unifying force, while pushing forward a new more restrictive immigration policy against Muslims, writes DENNIS BROE
French President Emmanuel Macron speaks during a meeting with officials from Western and Arab nations, the United Nations and nongovernmental organisations at the Elysee Palace, in Paris, November 9, 2023
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With 12,000 fewer teachers since 2010 and dwindling resources, Scotland’s schools desperately need investment to support diverse learners rather than empty promises from politicians, writes ANDREA BRADLEY
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EMAN ABU ZAYED reminisces about the perilous time her family and neighbours endured in northern Gaza and how they were forced, in fear of their lives, to flee south
The EIS president who defended Marxist politics in the 1980s fought Thatcherite educational policies while organising Teachers for Peace rallies and ensuring Morning Star circulation in Scotland’s pit villages and factories, writes JOHN FOSTER
THIS Sunday there will be a “protest” march in Paris organised by Emmanuel Macron’s Renaissance Party that is supposedly about contesting anti-semitism in the country.
Would that it were true.
Instead, the march is a cynical ploy by the politician to drive a wedge between his minority party and its two chief challengers, the left-wing LFI or France Unbowed and the hard-right, fascist and historically anti-semitic National Rally (RN).
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