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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Rebuilding the NHS after the pandemic
Coming out of this crisis, the trade union movement will have choices to make about how we can fight for the future of our health service, says HELEN O’CONNOR
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The suicide of Tamara Jade Logon after her disability benefits were wrongly withdrawn is the latest in a series of deaths in which coroners have cited DWP failings, exposing a pattern of preventable harm, says DYLAN MURPHY
DECADES of real-terms funding cuts and outsourcing have combined to undermine and reduce NHS services and demoralise NHS staff.
The government’s strategy towards the NHS is no accident — it is part of a neoliberal project intended to destroy all the gains made by the working class up to and after the second world war.
For many years the idea that “private is better than public” has been used as a means to open the doors of the NHS to private businesses.
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Reversing outsourcing is the pre-election promise the government must honour, says Unison general secretary CHRISTINA McANEA
Labour warned that workers expect better as anger mounts over welfare cuts and public-sector pay
Born from my communist social worker mother’s efforts to bridge healthcare gaps, Labour’s push for home-based care now risks becoming another avenue for the US corporate takeover of the NHS, writes RICHARD CLARKE