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15 January 2020
It's one world for the super-rich, and another one for the rest of us.
15 January 2020
Hackney school bus workers win pay increase following strikes
A long-running dispute between Hackney council and school bus staff has been brought to an end after workers secured increased pay and a commitment to make agency roles permanent
4 December 2019
Carlisle election meeting: Education - time to make the mega-rich and corporations pay
The Labour candidate for Carlisle, Ruth Alcroft, spoke at a Socialist Party public election meeting in the city on 2 December. It followed the handing over of a petition to her from 500 local parents and teachers against the Tory cuts to school funding.
27 November 2019
Brighton anti-academy campaign steps up
Over 100 parents, children, trade unionists and other supporters from the local community were on the picket line outside Moulsecoomb Primary School, Brighton on 21 November.
20 November 2019
Cleaners strike over low pay at Haringey secondary school
Outsourced cleaners struck at Highgate Wood School in north London to demand an end to appalling working conditions
13 November 2019
Save education - Kick out the Tories
Tory and Blairite attacks have devastated the education system, with baleful results for staff and students.
16 October 2019
NEU support staff dismiss Tory 'extra funding' hype
The National Education Union was formed in September 2018 to include school teachers, further education lecturers, education support staff and teaching assistants.
25 September 2019
Labour votes to abolish academies and private schools
And promises to abolish tuition fees, among other measures
4 September 2019
Money doesn't make up for cuts - education unions must organise for funding and against Tory attacks
You know there's an election in the offing when the Tories say they will raise spending on education despite decimating school budgets in their previous terms of office.
31 July 2019
Huge workload, low pay and unpaid hours - a day in the life of a teaching assistant
The role has changed unrecognisably in the last few years, but the wages do not reflect the level of commitment and professionalism the position now demands or the extra pressures it brings
31 July 2019
Ilford: parents and teachers unite against school cuts
Ilford County High School, which has a deficit, should force the council to allow a moratorium on repayments
31 July 2019
July climate strikes: link up with the workers' movement
On 19 July, members of the Socialist Party and Socialist Students braved the rain outside parliament to support school students striking against climate change
17 July 2019
Council seeks to take budget deficit out on school staff and pupils
"You can't keep cutting jobs and simply expect teachers and support staff to pick up the extra work. We are not prepared to see our members driven into the ground nor see the children's education suffer", said Venda Premkumar, Redbridge National Education Union (NEU) branch secretary.
27 June 2019
Birmingham school strike for safe working environment
NASUWT teaching union members at Starbank school (Hob Moor Road site) in Birmingham took the first of two days' strike action on 27 June over poor pupil behaviour and the school's policies to deal with it.
26 June 2019
Unions and campaigners discuss fight to end education crisis
Loud applause for Jo Grady, newly elected general secretary of the University and College Union, calling for national coordinated strikes to stop education cuts, shows what is needed
19 June 2019
Stop climate change - fight for socialist change
In recent months tens of thousands of students have walked out of schools
19 June 2019
Young Socialists - re-establishing Rhondda's fighting traditions
"What's important," Sophie, year eight, told our Rhondda Young Socialists meeting, "is to tell people how socialists like us are coming together to target capitalism and its politicians.", writes Sasha O'Neil.
19 June 2019
Schools unions must turn anger into a fight against funding catastrophe
The catastrophe facing schools cannot be exaggerated. Schools in England have lost out on £5.4 billion in Tory funding cuts since 2015, writes Nick Chaffey, Southern Socialist Party secretary.
Socialist Party member Janet Gibson advertising NSSN conference at a protest of steel construction workers outside a Siemans factory in Lincoln
31 May 2019
A speaker at the youth climate change protest in Newcastle, 21.6.19, photo by Elaine Brunskill
30 May 2019
Fighting to stop school meals privatisation
Barnsley Unison is campaigning to stop 220 jobs being moved into the private sector
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