This is the second of our blog posts reporting from the solidarity delegation to Lviv in Ukraine. On Thursday afternoon, we visited a secondary school, Lyceum no.83. We were shown around the school by ...
This morning, we visited the rather splendid Lviv office of the Trade Union of Education and Science Workers of Ukraine.The office is in the House of Scientists, a stunning neo-baroque building that ...
This week, a delegation of UK educators and union activists is visiting Ukraine in solidarity with educators in a country at war. Reports will be posted on this blog. This morning, we visited a ...
On Thursday, 24 October, Magdalena Biejat, former co-leader of the left-wing Razem party in Poland, announced on Instagram: “We are leaving Razem today… You can guess it was a difficult and painful ...
On Sunday 27 October, the liberal Israeli newspaper Haaretz organised a conference on the ongoing Gaza war at JW3, a Jewish cultural and community centre in northwest London. The conference was ...
On 28 October, the Israeli parliament passed new laws severely restricting the ability of Unrwa, the United Nations agency responsible for supporting Palestinian refugees, to operate. The laws ban ...
Picture: Bidzina Ivanishvili, billionaire founder of the Dream party. Even if you know nothing about the republic of Georgia and were completely unaware of its elections last week, the fact that ...
Ayman Odeh is a Palestinian socialist and member of the Knesset (Israeli parliament). He was speaking at a conference in London organised by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. “We cannot return [the dead] ...
The Cabinet Office has announced that civil servants must spend 60% of their working time in the office, irrespective of the nature of their work, their personal circumstances and preferences, and ...
On the afternoon of 26 October, tens of thousands of far-right, anti-Muslim protesters marched from Victoria to Downing Street, London, carrying Union Jacks, St George flags and banners opposing ...
Last week’s Socialist Worker rejects the Taiwanese people’s right to self-determination. In an article headed “Analysis: US and China draw battle lines in Taiwan”, Thomas Foster offers a veneer of ...