Younger people are being pushed into political activity because of the horrors of capitalism. From the Youth Strike 4 Climate movement to the current A Level fiasco, we are seeing crisis after crisis for school students. Young people are suffering under the pressure of capitalist life. The system cannot offer anything to these young people. Read more about what has been happening to school students, and fight back with us!
In pursuit of a budget surplus so as to continue the fragile capitalist system, the Conservative government is reducing spending by cutting education. Apart from the obvious consequences of falling standards, witnessed in my own school (St Thomas Moore Academy in Newcastle) with the worst set of A-level results since 2005, and a mass Read more…
The quality and quantity of education available to the public has always been a general measure of social progress. The greater the wealth of knowledge available to its citizens, the more civilised is their society and the higher its level of culture and the quality of existence it provides. Capitalism Read more…
The Conservatives’ ‘Long Term Economic Plan’ grinds into its sixth year and the crisis of capitalism remains. With the UK Government looking to close the black hole in its finances, blown open by the 2008 crash, vital services are facing closure. Despite Cameron’s promise that the education budget would Read more…
This weekend, on Sunday 6th September, the labour movement celebrates the centenary of the longest strike in British history, the Burston School strike, which ran from 1914 to 1939 in Norfolk. The strike had the solid support of the local community of farm labourers and farm tenants and it Read more…
The school and college term has begun again with less than two weeks to go before the result of the Labour Party leadership is announced. To the horror of the Tories, the rich and the establishment, Jeremy Corbyn’s campaign has rocked the British political scene by energising hundreds of thousands Read more…
This month the pawnbroker Albemarle has been targeting its advertising at cash-strapped parents who are struggling to cover back-to-school costs. The advertising campaign claimed that the pawnbroker could help with the cost of textbooks, uniforms and other school supplies needed at the beginning of the new academic year. This is Read more…
The ongoing dispute at Lambeth College is emblematic of the entire austerity and privatisation programme. The militancy of the struggle against attacks on terms and conditions at Lambeth College and the closure of the Brixton site could in turn be an important point of reference in the struggle against austerity Read more…
Michael Gove’s Department for Education is to make a new line of biting attacks on college students, as part of yet more cutbacks that students must bear. This is despite the failing economy being thanks to a capitalist government – we didn’t cause this crisis and yet we’re being made Read more…
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