Piers Mostyn reports on a very successful demonstration against the government’s bid to forcefully privatise four local primary schools against the opposition of teachers, parents and governors. It wound its way through Haringey from Downhills Primary School on Saturday January [...]
This is the text of a leaflet produced by supporters of Socialist Resistance in the National Union of Teachers. You can download it here. For a National Work to Rule from 1st January! For an escalation of mass strike action [...]
Hatcher, R. and Jones, K. (eds) (2011) No Country for the Young: education from New Labour to the Coalition. London: Tufnell Press. £12.95. The Coalition government’s programme for education is a fundamental challenge to the idea of social justice. It [...]
Molly Cooper is a member of UNISON in University College London. Education is at the frontline of the struggle against cuts, austerity and privatisation and a successful fight against them needs to involve both students and trade unionists. This is [...]
In the next few weeks the government is publishing a new White Paper on public services. In February David Cameron wrote an article in the Sunday Telegraph signalling its purpose. ‘We will create a new presumption – backed up by [...]
Roy Wilkes looks forward to the debate on pensions at the National Union of Teachers’ (NUT) conference. There is a strong possibility that NUT members will be balloted for national discontinuous strike action in defence of our pension soon after [...]
The anti union laws introduced by Thatcher and Tebbit in the Eighties and made worse by New Labour have been used repeatedly and with increasing frequency by employers to undermine effective trade union action. As a result of the legislation, [...]
The battle against fees and cuts is far from over. In fact it has just begun. Last term’s demonstrations divided the Lib Dems and shook the Coalition Government. Yet the cuts have hardly started. The students’ movement itself is only [...]
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