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30 January 2019
The recent indicative ballot of 82,500 teachers in England in the National Education Union (NEU) saw an overwhelming 85% vote for strike action.
30 January 2019
Unison union campaigns for school support staff action
Unison has started a six-week consultative ballot of 150,000 school support staff in England for strike action against cuts to jobs, pay and conditions.
16 January 2019
30% of English secondaries in deficit
Almost one in three council-maintained English secondary schools were in budget deficit in 2017-18, according to damning new figures
21 November 2018
Over one million students strike against sexism and for inclusive sex education
The general student strike called by the Students Union and Libres y Combativas (free and combative) was a powerful success.
21 November 2018
Indefinite dinner ladies' and teaching assistants' strike
The strike action at Ladywood primary school in Grimethorpe reached its 29th day
31 October 2018
Build for national strike action: An insultingly low figure: that's the reality of Phillip Hammond's budget announcement of £400 million in capital spending for schools.
24 October 2018
Students and workers march for increased college funding
Over 1,000 teachers, lecturers and college students marched through central London on 17 October to demand the end to Tory cuts and austerity in education.
24 October 2018
Blairites plan to expand their very own academy chain
You would think that Labour politicians would be in favour of running schools that meet children's needs, unpolluted by the pursuit of profit and accountable to the communities that uses them. Well, these values are not held by Blairites who are at odds with Corbyn's plans to scrap the semi-privatised academy schools system.
17 October 2018
Libres y Combativas: striking for women's rights in the Spanish state
On 8 March 2018 - International Women's Day - an unprecedented strike against sexism and women's oppression took place across the Spanish state. Libres y Combativas played a central role. Now, the campaign is building for a new student strike on 14 November. The Socialist spoke to Ana Garcia, an activist in Libres y Combativas
3 October 2018
1,000 head teachers march on parliament
Head teachers are starting to take up the methods of struggle of the workers' movement
12 September 2018
4m children in homes that can't afford fruit and veg
£10 an hour now Scrap benefit cuts: Four million children in the UK live in households unable to afford enough fruit, vegetables, fish and other essential food groups to meet government nutrition guidelines, says the Food Foundation.
12 September 2018
School students in solitary: for full funding, not exclusion!
'Isolation booths' - solitary confinement in all but name - are an increasingly common feature of 'zero-tolerance' school behaviour policies.
29 August 2018
Exam factories, cuts and violence - Fight for our future!
In the last five years alone, almost £1 billion was cut from youth services.
25 July 2018
School students: why we walked out against Trump
Students from several schools in London walked out to join protests against Donald Trump on 13 July, led by Socialist Students and Young Socialists.
25 July 2018
Government fails to deliver on funding and teachers' pay - demand action to win 5%
The union's mistaken approach must urgently be corrected
30 May 2018
Toxic air hits schools as EU ponders slap on wrist years late
Toxic air is so bad in London that school students are exposed to higher levels inside their lessons than outside on the street or in the playground, according to a study for the mayor of London.
23 May 2018
Victory: how school strike beat 'academy' privatisers
School workers in Newham, east London, stopped Avenue Primary School becoming a privately run 'academy' earlier this month
8 May 2018
NEU members at Avenue school have succeeding in stopping the school becoming an academy.
11 April 2018
NEU conference: Teachers vote to strike over pay and workload
The National Education Union (NEU) conference (NUT section - the last ever before fully merged conference next year) took place in Brighton against the backdrop of a perfect storm building in our schools
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