Some schools put heavy pressure on teachers to be on site between 7.30 am and 6 pm; and, unlike in other countries, there is no set limit on classroom hours.
War and revolution has been a theme of 2014. Workers’ Liberty comrades recommend some books on that theme, all readily available, and ideal for reading over the holiday period.
Jerusalem has been in flames — again. Two youngsters from Jabel Mukaber, one of the Arab villages annexed to Jerusalem, entered a synagogue in the west of the city during morning prayers and killed four devout Jews. Uri Avnery looks at the context to these killings.
The politics of the Kurdish Peoples Protection Units (YPG) in western Kurdistan/Syria (Rojava) and the nature of governance there has been debated on the revolutionary left with some anarchist, autonomist Marxist and libertarian communists seeing more or less enthusiastically welcoming the democracy taking root there.
London Underground has published a proposed schedule for ticket office closures, despite a London TravelWatch survey reporting that the public oppose the closures.
Following a thousand-strong protest, students are taking part in an occupation of the VC's suite at Warwick University after police repression against an (ongoing) wave of student protests for free education.
When the cleaning contract for Bakerloo, Central and Victoria lines passed from Initial to Interserve, cleaners were left waiting long into winter for their new winter coat with 'Interserve' embazoned across it. Corporate branding was more important than its workforce's comfort.
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