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Solidarity to our former convenor and leading labour movement campaigner Alex Kenny. These attacks on free speech and assembly are pathetic, but dangerous. The labour movement must respond robustly.

"Mo Chara’s real problem is that the message he put out landed. Working-class people aren’t meant to speak like this, organise like this, or connect struggles across borders like this. That’s what scares them. While Mo Chara stands in the dock for allegedly waving a flag, those complicit in a genocide walk the streets untouched. Since October 2023, over 60,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza – entire families erased, journalists targeted, children bombed in their beds. More than 300 officials at the Foreign Office raised their concerns about Israel’s “stark … disregard for international law”. And yet, the UK government continues to greenlight arms deals and offer diplomatic cover. That’s not a performance. That’s a conscious policy decision. Made in Westminster, paid for by the taxpayer, and buried beneath silence. They’ve tried this before. Give Ireland Back to the Irish – banned. Christy Moore – detained. The Pogues’ Streets of Sorrow – silenced for decades. And now, it seems to be Mo Chara – for turning protest into poetry, politics into art. So here’s the question – the same one Pete Seeger asked, the same one Mo Chara asks now: Which side are you on? 👉express.co.uk/news/uk/207047…

We have 4.5million children living in poverty - a record broken under a Labour govt. We have 109 children being pulled into poverty every day, due to the 2-child benefit cap. Schools, colleges and education continues to endure a crisis in funding. Be here. Cuts hurt kids.

One in three children in the UK live in poverty but there is always money for war. Join us in the anti-war #WelfareNotWarfare bloc on 7 June!

🇵🇸 Red Line for 🇵🇸 Join us in surrounding the British Parliament. Demand the government #StopArmingIsrael #SanctionsNow 🗓️ Wednesday 4 June ⏰ 11.30am 🔴 Wear Red 🔴

🇨🇺 On this day in 1955, Fidel Castro & 25 members of the 26 July Movement were freed from the Model Prison on Cuba's Isla de la Juventud following a prisoner amnesty. They served 19 months for their attack on the Batista dictatorship at the Moncada Barracks in 1953.

Speilman's time in charge of Ofsted led us to the position we are in now - no confidence in the inspectorate and universal recognition that Ofsted isn't reliable or trustworthy.

🧵In Gaza, learning has been at a complete halt for 685,000 students for over 18 months. 95% of all schools have been damaged or destroyed. In the occupied West Bank, 57 schools are under threat of demolition.

⚠️ *Calling all reps*⚠️ Every term, as part of our bargaining calendar, we encourage reps to raise the same issue – this term it’s workload. Taking action together builds the strength we need to affect change. Start the conversation 👉 bit.ly/3Ziy2E1

🚨 Tell Keir Starmer: Stop starving Palestinians Right now, with the help of the British government, Israel is deliberately starving more than 2million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip Demand Keir Starmer stops enabling this violence and #StopArmingIsrael: palestinecampaign.eaction.online/starmer-stop-s…

🚨 Build. Build. Build 📌 Embankment 17 May 🎈 Make it huge

Since October 2023, the Met has routinely used repressive powers to impose unprecedented restrictions on protests for Palestinian rights. Dozens are facing charges. The Court of Appeal agrees with us. These police powers were and are unlawful. stopwar.org.uk/article/victor…

I don’t think that this has ever been better put. It goes to the heart of the matter. Ofsted has no evidence that its judgements are consistent, reliable or valid. Operating on a budget that has declined significantly, the problem of the quality of its judgements is compounded.

@SehMiss Amazing! We demand fully funded stardom for every 11 year old! (Although in your case, if “highly commended” in the STA best speech of NEU conference award isn’t stardom, we don’t know what to say to you…)

Found a letter from when I was 11 & was begging to be on TV. I’m sure I was trying to get this sent to a casting agency. Very grateful for the free arts clubs we used to have for kids back then, until they got cut 😭. Also, the teacher in me is not impressed with my SPaG 🤣.

Today ⁦@NEUnion⁩ conference has voted to call on the government to provide teachers with 26 full pay on maternity leave - so resharing the piece I wrote last year. This feels like a major barrier to govt target of recruiting 6500 additional teachers bbc.com/news/articles/…

I bloody hope so. Too many school staff not understanding what this means for a school budget. AND if they (any gov’t tbf) do it once, they’ll never fund it again imo.

Listen to Sarah Green, a teacher from south-east London, speaking about how we have to fight against the far right to protect our pupils. We must stand up against racism. #NEU2025

Fantastic #NEU2025 StWC #WelfareNotWarfare fringe meeting last night. "I'm immensely proud of our union's support for the anti-war movement" @DanielKebedeNEU

Yesterday at @NEUnion conference in Harrogate, delegates voted overwhelmingly to demand the government institute a 2-way arms embargo and push to ensure member's pensions are not invested in companies complicit in Israel's genocide. PSC then held a packed fringe event featuring NEU General Secretary @DanielKebedeNEU and President Sarah Kilpatrick. NEU members stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people. 🇵🇸