ShareTweet By NUT and NASUWT The two largest teacher unions, the NASUWT and the NUT, representing nine out of ten teachers, are today confirming the next phase of their jointly coordinated campaign to Protect Teachers and Defend Education. Following the continued refusal of the Secretary of State to genuinely engage with the…
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NASUWT AND NUT CONFIRM NEXT PHASE OF INDUSTRIAL ACTION
People’s Assembly can challenge our suffocating political consensus
ShareTweet By Owen Jones The cartel of modern politics is only ever disrupted from the right. Now, with the help of like-minded others, I will be touring the country to set up a left-wing movement Sometimes it seems as though British politics is one grand cartel, or a gentleman’s agreement, if…
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63 economists pledge support for People’s Assembly
ShareTweet After Osborne’s disastrous budget yesterday, 63 economists have pledged their support for the People’s Assembly with a letter to the Guardian. Published in the Guardian on Thursday 21 March George Osborne‘s latest budget confirms that austerity policies are set to continue for years to come (Budget 2013, 20 March). This is a call…
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Cameron’s days in office may be numbered, but the national agenda is still set by the right
ShareTweet The Prime Minister is surrounded by ideological crusaders and they’ve succeeded in turning the politically impossible into the politically inevitable, says Owen Jones David Cameron is sunk, kaput, finito. He leads a party that has not won an election since 1992: back when nearly no one had heard of the internet; before text…
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Mark Steel: Right, that’s enough, now what are we going to do about it?
ShareTweet By Mark Steel The anger so many feel at this Government’s austerity policies needs an outlet. So we’re coming together to protest around the country. I genuinely hope that George Osborne does it on purpose. That he descends from the podium after a speech and sniggers to Cameron “I said…
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George Osborne is the true villain, not the unemployed
ShareTweet By Owen Jones The unemployed mum-of-11 isn’t taking us for a ride, George Osborne is the true villain. What really winds me up is we never talk about the millions of people desperately looking for work. It’s not your bog-standard scrounging-family-with-loadsa-kids-passed-off-as-the-tip-of-iceberg story. Unemployed mum Heather Frost doesn’t just have 11 mouths…
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Funding for Fire Services to be Cut by 25 Per Cent | Unless we Stop It Happening!
ShareTweet Laurie Heselden, Regional Policy and Campaigns Officer TUC The Government is seeking to implement what it is calling “a fairer funding settlement across Fire and Rescue Services” for the period 2013 – 17. In the Spending Review 2010 the government reduced the formula grant funding for Fire and Rescue Authorities by 5.8 per cent…
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The radical alternative to austerity
ShareTweet By John McDonnell MP David Cameron and George Osborne have continually repeated that there is no alternative to their failing austerity programme. I feel that there needs to be a clear statement from the Left that there is an alternative to austerity and it goes beyond just cutting less deep and less fast. I…
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Unite calls for Leveson style inquiry into blacklisting
ShareTweet By Unite the Union Unite, Britain’s biggest union, has described the blacklisting of construction workers as a national scandal on the scale of phone hacking and is calling for a ‘Leveson style’ inquiry. The union has welcomed the forthcoming commons debate this Wednesday (23 January) on the issue of blacklisting, initiated by…
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If you think we’re done with neoliberalism, think again
ShareTweet By George Monbiot The global application of a fraudulent economic theory brought the west to its knees. Yet for those in power, it offers riches How they must bleed for us. In 2012, the world’s 100 richest people became $241 billion richer. They are now worth $1.9 trillion: just a little less…
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