This episode has one of the last speeches that Neil Faulkner gave before he sadly passed away earlier this year from pancreatic cancer. Neil gives his analysis of the world situation and the contradictions developing within global politics in light of creeping fascism and global warming. We also have an exclusive interview with Julia Camaras, a Brazilian socialist activist, about the situation after Lula became president, the threat from the far right, and the dangers of some of the PT’s class collaborationist politics.
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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?