Image above: People take turns to do the difficult jobs, by Chad McCail The 3rd annual conference of the Alliance of Working-Class Academics (AWCA), in conjunction with... Continue reading
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Category: Education
Libraries and communism are like Marx and Engels – you can’t have one without the other. Marx did some of his most important work in the British... Continue reading
Razia Parveen criticises the government’s decision to make poetry optional for study at GCSE level. The image above is of John Agard The Tory government has recently... Continue reading
Razia Parveen argues that pulling down statues should only be the beginning of a radical decolonisation of the educational curriculum I didn’t know that. Why didn’t they... Continue reading
Jane Rosen writes about revolutionary children’s literature, based on the recent book she co-edited with Kimberley Reynolds and Michael Rosen, Reading and Rebellion: an Anthology of Radical... Continue reading
Jane Rosen introduces ‘Don’t Shoot Your Class!’, by Tom Anderson, first published in The Revolution, June 1918. It is extracted from Reading and Rebellion, an Anthology of... Continue reading
Martin Brown considers what a Marxist approach can tell us about our education system. Like everything else in a class-divided society, education is a battleground. In present... Continue reading
Dr Geoff Bright introduces a fascinating arts-based educational project, concerned with remembering, re-imagining and re-enacting alternative community futures in the abandoned, de-industrialised pit communities in the North... Continue reading
Chris Guiton presents a foundation essay for the education section, sketching out some of the links between education, culture and capitalism. The purpose of this introductory article... Continue reading