The Socialist 5 July 2007

Brown's government for the rich

Blair's toadying surpasses all clichés

National Shop Stewards' Network conference: Join the fightback against the bosses' offensive

Campaign for a New Workers' Party: Giving workers a voice

Lively CNWP meeting in Cardiff

Unite against war, poverty and terrorism

Postal workers: we're striking to win

Postal workers' strike gets solid support across the country

Under several feet of flood water - after flood defence budget cut

"A new gilded age of inequality"

Stop subsidising private schools

Surplus cash yet cutbacks continue

Why the United Nations fails the test of internationalism

Iran: Riots over petrol rationing

Climate change: socialist international planning needed

George Bush - a get out of jail ticket

Pakistan: Union activist has suspension withdrawn following protests

Tales from the council chamber

'Living in a parallel universe'

UNISON delegates challenge leadership

Victory over bullying management

RMT conference: Fighting a thousand cuts

Not so nice Mr Branson

Socialism 2007

Two plays reviewed by Mark Baker: 'Philistines' and 'The Last Confession'

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Stop subsidising private schools

OVERALL JUST 7% of children are educated at 'independent' ie private, fee-paying schools. But the figure for people in the top jobs is 53%, according to a survey carried out for Sutton Trust educational charity. 70% of judges, 54% of top business executives and journalists, 51% of leading medics and 38% of top politicians were educated at private schools.

Private schools, bizarrely known as 'public schools' in Britain, get tax relief as 'charities' and cash from the parents of their charges, whom they coach as future elites. Have New Labour even started to attack the tax relief on public schools? No. Have they increased staffing and reduced class sizes in the state sector to equal those of the private sector? No.

45% more is still spent per pupil in private school education than in state schools. Private schools should be abolished and state schooling given the resources to get the best out of every child.

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