The Next Fight for Free School Meals
While the cost of living crisis forces families into food bank queues, a free school meal might be the only substantial food a child eats in a day – so their availability needs to be expanded urgently.
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Robert Poole
Robert Poole is a co-founder of Strike Map.
Academisation Is Not the Answer
The government’s plan for full academisation amounts to the privatisation of our education system, to the detriment of pupils, workers and the wider community. It must be resisted.
How Ofsted Undermines the Education System
Ofsted has spent its thirty years inflicting surveillance and stress on teachers and judging working-class schools more harshly than their wealthy counterparts – it must be replaced.
This May Day, Plan to Visit a Picket Line!
To celebrate May Day, worker support network Strike Map has organised a new campaign encouraging activists to visit a picket line and give solidarity to the growing ranks of workers taking strike action.
The Teaching Crisis Goes Deeper than Covid
On top of relentless overwork, surveillance, slashed funding and inadequate Covid support, teachers in England have lost 17% of their real-terms pay since 2010 – while MPs’ salaries have risen by £19,000. It’s time to fight back.
How to Save Our Schools
Our education system is failing both pupils and workers, and political leaders don’t seem to care – so education unions are putting forward their vision for radical change.
‘We’re Mapping Strikes to Help Build the Workers’ Movement’
The new Strike Map UK initiative aims to put a spotlight on the scale of industrial action taking place across Britain – and build links of solidarity which can strengthen the working-class movement.
On May Day, Wear #RedForKeyWorkers
Tomorrow, a grassroots trade union campaign is calling for people to wear #RedForKeyWorkers – in recognition of their efforts today, and in demand that their work is respected in the future.