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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
29 May 2019
Victimised school student climate striker speaks out
After Friday's (24 May) climate change protest we were contacted by a school student concerned that students from her school will face sanctions for striking, writes Elaine Brunskill, secretary, Socialist Party Northern region.
22 May 2019
Day of action against cuts to special needs education
It is a measure of a society's progress as to how it treats its most vulnerable members. Applying that measure to special educational needs funding - we are heading back to the Stone Age.
8 May 2019
Hull dinner ladies protest against loss of week's pay
I was told by one dinner lady that they face a week's loss in pay, from a four-day delay due to changes in their payment schedule
1 May 2019
Local elections 2019: Time to stand up and fight the cuts!
Across England, 91% of schools are facing funding cuts. Education is being damaged by Tory austerity. Labour councils could prevent these cuts in their areas by allowing schools to run legal licensed deficits. Instead, Labour councils continue to enforce Tory cuts.
1 May 2019
Build student unions and walkouts to fight climate change and Trump!
Trump plans to once again visit Britain - on 3-5 June.
1 May 2019
Valentine victory: School strike beats council cuts
Teachers and support staff at Valentine Primary School are celebrating an important victory
17 April 2019
School staff demand action on pay and testing at NEU conference
School workers' anger has been expressed at the 2019 conference of the National Education Union (NEU).
17 April 2019
Labour councils must act now to save our schools!
A new Ofsted report shows that educational support for vulnerable children is failing. The report outlines how thousands of children are being taught in alternative provision, often in very poor conditions with no qualified teachers.
10 April 2019
A meeting was instigated because of threatened redundancies at Henry Maynard School
28 March 2019
Well-supported strike against cuts at Bradfield school
Teachers at Bradfield school in Sheffield are defending jobs and education
27 March 2019
Valentine school strike against budget cuts and redundancies
"No ifs, no buts, stop school cuts!" was the sound at Valentine Primary School gates on 14 March, striking at the threat of redundancies due to budget cuts
20 March 2019
Cash-strapped schools now 'fourth emergency service'
Increasing numbers of schools are having to provide clothing, laundry facilities and food parcels to their students due to a decade of austerity leaving many vulnerable children in poverty.
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