Robinson successfully defended his school from closure, fought for the unification of the teaching unions, mentored future trade union leaders and transformed teaching at the Marx Memorial Library, writes JOHN FOSTER
Mass mobilisation needed to bring us back from the edge of the abyss
KEVIN OVENDEN cautions against a simplistic ridiculing of Trump, Musk or Farage as any such laughter might turn out to be at our expense

IT COULD be tempting to treat Elon Musk’s provocations as the attention-seeking of a petulant plutocrat who was born into the wealth of his father’s mining business in apartheid South Africa.
Then there is the line from the most craven US allies — Britain’s laughable Foreign Secretary David Lammy and the EU’s woodentop Ursula von der Leyen — in response to Donald Trump mulling the annexation of Greenland and the Panama Canal. It seems to be not to take him seriously.
That would be a catastrophic mistake. Musk is in effect co-president of the US, having spent $100 million on Trump’s election campaign.
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