By Andy Ford, Unite BBC Radio 4 recently carried a two-part report, The University Timebomb, on the disastrous state of British higher education. The programme showed
Year: 2019
By Michael Robert Last March, I posted that the global economy seemed to be in a fantasy world where stock markets hit new highs but output of
Tue 23 Apr 2019, 06:04 AM | Posted by editor LETTER from Mark Langabeer, Newton Abbot CLP (personal capacity) The BBC programme entitled Climate change: The facts gave
By John Pickard In the last week, thousands of protesters, overwhelmingly young people, have blocked main roads in London (and in cities elsewhere in the
By John Pickard Every activist in the labour movement should read Deep Adaption, an extremely pessimistic forecast of future social upheaval that will be brought on
By a blacklisted construction worker The Pitchford Inquiry, set up by Theresa May to investigate undercover policing, has been completely absent from the news. While
The annual conferences of the two biggest teaching unions, the National Education Union and the National Association of Schoolmasters/Union of Women Teachers, are taking place
By Lal Khan In the late spring of 1919, green meadows in the fertile plains of Punjab were acquiring a golden hue with the sun’s rising
Mon 15 Apr 2019, 08:15 AM | Posted by editor LETTER from Mark Langabeer, Newton Abbot CLP (personal capacity) The TV programme Dispatches investigated the underhand practices of
By Michael Roberts The IMF-World Bank meeting in Washington this weekend revealed again that the world economy is slowing down and the prospect of an