NEU delegates are meeting this week for the union’s national conference, which comes at a critical moment in the struggle over pay and conditions. Teachers have shown their determination to fight. Now is the time for militant coordinated action.
NEU leaders have correctly called on members to reject the pathetic deal being offered to teachers, and are preparing for further walkouts. To win, we must escalate the action, unite the struggles, and fight to kick capitalism out of education.
A trove of leaked messages between former health secretary Matt Hancock and other cabinet ministers reveals the callous and cynical attitudes held by the Tories. Our schools and services are not safe in their hands. We must kick them all out.
A wave of regional strikes by NEU members is taking place this week, over pay and conditions in education. To save our schools, this struggle must be linked to that of other public sector workers, to fight the Tories and their austerity agenda.
NEU members have shown their will to fight, voting to strike over pay and conditions. Public sector unions are mobilising for coordinated action on 1 February. To stop the cuts, these struggles must be linked around a clear socialist programme.
Hundreds of thousands of teachers and school staff are currently voting over potential strike action. Austerity and academisation have driven down teaching conditions and learning conditions. Only a bold socialist fightback can save education.
Only weeks into the new academic year, it is clear that UK schools are suffering from a severe staff shortage. Swathes of teachers are dropping out of the profession, due to low pay and high workloads. But teaching unions are fighting back.
NEU members at a Catholic school in Croydon have voted to strike against the scandalous decision to ban a gay author from speaking to students. This shows the way forward in the fight against oppression: through united class struggle.
With schools and teachers facing a barrage of cuts and attacks, this year’s conference of the National Education Union saw impassioned debates over a range of issues. The task for left activists is to mobilise members for a militant fightback.
As education activists gather in Bournemouth this week for the annual conference of the NEU, Socialist Appeal supporters in the union examine the crisis brewing in schools, and point the way forward – with militant, united action.
This month, 1500 teachers and support staff are striking over forced cuts to pensions. The whole labour movement must support their struggle – and fight to defend education against privatisation, academisation, austerity, and attacks.
A recent survey of NEU members shows that there is an appetite amongst teachers to fight for higher pay. This must be the first step in a struggle to improve conditions inside schools – and towards united action across the public sector.