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Easy profits for big business at our expense – Dave Kellaway examines how Labour governments’ partnerships with business undermine services. - Peace between neofascists and war on oppressed peoples
Gilbert Achcar explores the parellels between Russia and the USA’s approach to the Ukraine war and to the Arab region. - Stop Trumps sell out: Solidarity with Ukraine ‑Russian troops out
- Rubio: “They must be eliminated; they must be eradicated.”
For all of Trump’s claims to end wars, Susan Pashkoff writes that we may see an escalation of existing wars and the creation of new tensions. - Stop Trump’s sell out : Russian troops out of Ukraine: Solidarity with Ukraine
An ACR leaflet on Ukraine
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?