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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Now is the time for us all to hold true, against all the odds
We know we have come a long way and what we have achieved and are now ready for the struggle to ensure further progress argues DIANA HOLLAND
TOGETHERNESS: Unite members employed by Serco at Barts Health NHS Trust protest outside Serco’s presentation of financial results at JP Morgan, in London
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The suicide of Tamara Jade Logon after her disability benefits were wrongly withdrawn is the latest in a series of deaths in which coroners have cited DWP failings, exposing a pattern of preventable harm, says DYLAN MURPHY
This week, hundreds of Unite women, black & Asian ethnic minorities, disabled and LGBT+ delegates are coming together in Blackpool for the four Unite national equalities conferences.
These union reps who make such a difference in their workplaces, industries and communities are debating and agreeing Unite’s equality priorities.
Austerity cuts, EU exit negotiations, stress and pressure from automation and digitalisation, privatisation and subcontracting are all being viewed through a powerful equality lens and debates include experience from the workplace across 20 industrial sectors in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland as we set a positive agenda to “take action for equality now!”
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Once among the most progressive in the Middle East, Iraq’s legal protections for women face systematic dismantling under conservative religious and political pressures, reports SALMA SAADAWI of the Iraqi Women’s League