Sarah Parker* will introduce tonight’s talk on the Kurdish liberation struggle, which currently focused on defence against extreme Turkish state aggression supported by NATO in their attempt to recolonise Kurdistan and its peoples, crush its women’s revolution, and destroy its nature. Recent Kurdish theories of nationalism and the state and linked practice of democratic confederalism will be covered and there will be time for questions and discussion. *Sarah is a socialist activist and campaigner based in North London and has been involved in Kurdish solidarity for many years. She is a member of the A*CR.
Already the backsliding begins. ITV news is reporting that the Government has changed one point in the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill. They have accepted that academies will retain their ‘freedom’ to set their own pay scales for teachers. So the criteria in the School Teachers Pay and Conditions document will only apply to teachers in Local Authority schools. Why have the Government climbed down on this issue? It’s not as if this is a major financial problem for academies. But what will be the next change/climb down by the Government? Will academies be exempt from the National Curriculum? Will Local Authorities be able to build schools according to the needs of their communities or will all new schools, as at present, have to be academies?