Imagining a Socialist Education System
Recent attacks on teaching unions and ‘radical’ classroom materials make it clear that the ruling class understands education’s role in reproducing capitalism – it’s time that socialists did too.
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Vik Chechi-Ribeiro
Vik Chechi-Ribeiro is the vice-president of Manchester National Education Union (NEU) and a member of the NEU's Black Workers Committee in the North West.
Teachers Are Not Disposable
The government has claimed for months that schools are not hubs of infection, but new data proves their lie: and shows that education workers have double the Covid rate of the wider population.
Keeping Unsafe Schools Open Is Ideological
This week the government issued legal threats against a London council for closing schools – showing that it values profits more than the lives of workers, students and their families.
How Teachers Organised in a Pandemic
During the Covid-19 crisis, the National Education Union defeated the government over school reopenings and added 50,000 new members. We look at what trade unionists can learn from their organising.