Two speeches on Ukraine at UK school workers' conference
The 2022 National Education Union (NEU) conference saw heated debate about Ukraine. In the end the conference voted down the only motion available, a Stop the War Coalition-type one (more on what happened here ). Below are excerpts of two speeches given by Ukraine Solidarity Campaign supporters in the debate. Delegate from Lewisham NEU: Much of what’s been said has been characterised by false equivalence and oversimplification. Even Alex [Kenny] when he moved the main motion spoke more about NATO and Western leaders than about the Putin regime and Russian leaders. The problem I have with this...