Boredom to freedom
Imagine if, instead of exams and grades, educational institutions made learning their mission. Gasp! No exams? How would we know how good people were?
Writing From the Left, Changing the Conversation
Imagine if, instead of exams and grades, educational institutions made learning their mission. Gasp! No exams? How would we know how good people were?
The Peasants’ Revolt took place in 1381 under the rigid and cruel system of feudalism.
So, to the question ‘Whatever happened to the Labour Party?’ the only viable answer is: nothing. It is still the same pro-establishment, anti-socialist party it has always been.
As I write, reports have come in of a Russian rocket having struck the maternity wing of a hospital in eastern Ukraine, killing a new-born boy and critically injuring a doctor. Every life lost is a tragedy,…
Left unity matters. We need to understand what divides us and use the revival of class struggle and public protest to build unity in action.
The criminal justice system in any country is supposed to be the cornerstone on which a good society is built, so, if that system itself is largely corrupt where does…
Modern Monetary Theory makes revolutionary economic claims but is in fact just a flawed defence of reformism.
The left should unite around its core values say many. But what are these values?
The creation of the NHS was not easy. It emerged as a result of passion and conflict. The passion was a vision articulated by Nye Bevan at the time that…
We need a radical and very deep overhaul of the way our society operates, not just in one country, though we have to start somewhere, but worldwide. Until we break…