Students at the school walkout for Palestine Around 80 students walked out of Greenshaw High School in Sutton, south London, on Thursday. It was in response to local Tory MP Paul Scully, who voted against a ceasefire, coming to visit the school. The students walked out demanding a ceasefire and an end to all arms sales to Israel. As students were outside the school gates, a speaker said, “We remember those whose culture is being annihilated. This is happening in Gaza as we speak. “And it has been happening across Palestinian land for decades. Israel is destroying their culture.” Tommy, a stu ..read more

Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves has rushed to reassure business over Labour’s rail plan (Picture: Flickr/ Keir Starmer) Labour’s plan to “renationalise the railways” is an illusion. Of course, any interference with the gravy train of profits and shareholder dividends is enough to enrage the Tories and the transport bosses. And anything that blunts the rail robbers is welcome. But it’s only a small shift from the direction of travel already established under the Tories. Labour would take some rail companies into state control as their contracts expire—but not before. That will take at least f ..read more

The protest on Tuesday which the Egyptian authorities repressed (Picture: EIPR) In a crackdown on protest, Egyptian authorities arrested 19 people demonstrating on Tuesday in solidarity with the women of Gaza and Sudan. The arrests underline the disgusting hypocrisy of the Egyptian regime which claims to stand with the Palestinians but represses those who want to escalate solidarity with the people of Gaza and the West Bank, Those seized include lawyer and socialist Mahienour el-Masry, Lobna Darwish from the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) human rights group and journalist Ras ..read more

Nursery staff join the wave of school strikes in Balham, south London Education workers have begun a wave of local strikes, in a sign of the discontent with pay and cuts to education. NEU union members at St Anne’ School and Sixth Form College in Hessle, Yorkshire, struck this week over a new pay system that doesn’t cover their extra duties. Around 70 workers at the school, which provides education for students with special educational needs and disabilities (Send), struck on Tuesday and Wednesday. They are set to strike for three days next week Steve Scott is NEU education union joint branc ..read more

Protesting for Palestine in Egypt (Picture: RevSoc.me) Egyptian ruler Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi has never been more unpopular. His survival depends upon savage repression of the masses by the army, police and intelligence services. For years al-Sisi has begged allies to save his state from bankruptcy. Now they have showered him with aid and investment. These are ­high-risk investments and loans. It’s a sign of anxiety that the Gaza crisis could affect his dictatorship and prompt an uprising like the ­revolution that brought down his predecessor in 2011. Egyptians ended Hosni Mubarak’s rule after ..read more

Protesters rage against Israel’s genocide of Palestinians on the streets of London (Picture: Guy Smallman) Only a day after Ibitsam brought her new baby home, the Israeli state attacked the al-Awda hospital in Deir al Balah, Gaza, where she had just given birth.  “At dawn on Monday the al-Awda hospital, the place where I had my baby, was hit by bombs,” she told Socialist Worker.   “Al-Awda hospital is the only place that is equipped for deliveries in the middle area of Gaza. All acquaintances and friends called me to congratulate me and tell me how fortunate I was to have ..read more

The lettuce could have done a better job than Liz Truss’s Ten Years to Save the West “What the actual fuck?” was Liz Truss’s response when Michael Gove told her he’d decided to betray Boris Johnson and stand himself for Tory leader. Those who read her new memoir, Ten Years to Save the West, may have a similar response.   Truss went from a comprehensive school in Leeds to Merton College, Oxford, from Shell PLC to parliament and then to Number 10. This may suggest a degree of intellectual and political capacity. There is, however, no evidence of either in her political memoir. Right wing ..read more

Takeover by Timothy W Ryback Takeover has two big positives—and two weakness. The first strength is that it counters the myth that Adolf Hitler’s Nazis came to power because they were elected. It shows, through a detailed examination of the events of 1932, that he became chancellor—the equivalent of a prime minister in Britain—even though the Nazi vote was ebbing. In the parliamentary elections of June 1932, Hitler’s party grabbed 13.5 million votes, over 37 percent of the total. But in November of the same year, its vote fell to 11.7 million, 33 percent. This caused a deep crisis for the fa ..read more

Nursery workers on picket lines in south London on Tuesday (Picture: Ben Morris) Teachers at Bedford Greenacre Independent School in Bedford took to picket lines on Tuesday and Wednesday.  The NEU education union members say it’s to protect their pensions and dispute their employer’s use of fire and rehire tactics.  The governors of the school wrote to NEU members saying they will be sacked on Tuesday if they don’t accept worse terms.  Employers are placing NEU members in an unacceptable position where fire and rehire have become a reality. The teachers are right to fight back ..read more

Nursery workers on picket lines in south London on Tuesday (Picture: Ben Morris) Teachers at Bedford Greenacre Independent School in Bedford took to picket lines on Tuesday and Wednesday.  The NEU education union members say it’s to protect their pensions and dispute their employer’s use of fire and rehire tactics.  The governors of the school wrote to NEU members saying they will be sacked on Tuesday if they don’t accept worse terms.  Employers are placing NEU members in an unacceptable position where fire and rehire have become a reality. The teachers are right to fight back ..read more