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Reflections on our NASUWT conference and political campaign
Sending solidarity to sister teaching union the NEU, MATT FLAMENCO sums up his union’s conference and its choices on campaigning activity and industrial action
Over 30 years since apartheid was abolished, nasty anti-migrant rhetoric sweeps the corporate media. The Commnunist Party is ready to fight back, says ROGER McKENZIE
Over 100,000 people are expected on Brussels’s streets today. Ben Chacko speaks to Belgian Workers Party’s PETER MERTENS on wage and pensions attacks that have united the fightback
FRED BAYER says the cuts to the congress cycle could be disastrous for the Scottish trade union movement
Berlin’s Soviet war memorials are becoming the latest front in a political struggle to ‘de-Sovietise’ German history. NICO POPP reports
Western Marxism is a particular version of Marxist theory developed in – and acceptable to – the capitalist nations of Europe and North America and largely divorced from political action, argues the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
AS this week was the week of our sister union’s annual conference, I wish to send my best wishes to them and their young members and I look forward to working with NEU colleagues in staff union meetings, demonstrations and trade union events.
During last weekend’s NASUWT annual conference, important motions were passed, and our colleagues had the opportunity to share their experiences in local industrial action along with their struggles in a devolved context.
Some of the most striking motions conveyed the rightful sentiment that our government believes that teachers are dispensable, able to be confined to the dustbin when they are no longer young, happen to become sick or are too high on the pay ladder — after all, they can just find a new batch of hopeful, perhaps naive PGCE students and NQTs to abuse (although the falling ITT targets suggest otherwise).
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