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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What this new period means for our class
This is the finale to decades of free-market ideological war on our jobs, homes and lives. What seems like chaos reigns, but we must realise this is a well-organised attack – and our response must be too, writes HELEN O’CONNOR
We need to invigorate our movement, welcome in the best and the brightest, openly discuss class politics and arm them with the knowledge and skills they need to become committed and knowledgeable workers’ leaders.
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The suicide of Tamara Jade Logon after her disability benefits were wrongly withdrawn is the latest in a series of deaths in which coroners have cited DWP failings, exposing a pattern of preventable harm, says DYLAN MURPHY
AS SOCIALISTS and trade unionists, we recognise that we are entering a new period of endemic political and economic instability.
For the last 40 years the neoliberal experiment and globalisation rested on the capitalist class taking many of the important gains made by previous generations of working-class people.
A deliberate and highly organised strategy was deployed by big business and their backers to weaken and divide the labour and trade union movement and this has been highly successful.
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