Education

"This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism...I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals."

Tuesday, 02 April 2024 10:18

Public libraries: an island of socialism in a sea of capitalism

Written by John Pateman

in 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 Library. Lenin understood the importance of libraries and made them a priority, right from the start of the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917. After…

Sunday, 16 August 2020 09:19

In defence of GCSE poetry

Written by Razia Parveen

in Education

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 announced that poetry will be optional for the 2021 GCSE exams. This retrograde decision will undoubtedly deprive thousands of children of the opportunity…

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K2_PUBLISHED_ON Tuesday, 21 July 2020 15:53

Why and how education must be decolonised

in Education

Written by Razia Parveen

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 teach us that in school? These are words many of us have probably heard in the wake of the pulling down of the…

K2_PUBLISHED_ON Thursday, 07 March 2019 17:11

Thou Shalt Teach Revolution

in Education

Written by Jane Rosen

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 Writing for Children, 1900-1960 Socialists in Britain, and of course elsewhere, have always looked for ways to provide children of the movement with…

K2_PUBLISHED_ON Thursday, 07 March 2019 15:45

Don't Shoot Your Class!

in Education

Written by Jane Rosen

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 Radical Writing for Children, 1900-1960.Though this piece is unsigned, the bound copy of The Revolution held by the Marx Memorial Library in London…

K2_PUBLISHED_ON Monday, 21 May 2018 08:00

Is There a Marxist Perspective on Education?

in Education

Written by Martin Brown

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 conditions, what is taught, how and to whom, is largely determined by the capitalist class. “The ideas of the ruling class are in…

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Monday, 27 November 2017 13:25

Education, literacy, and the Russian Revolution

Written by Megan Behrent

in Education

Megan Behrent considers what we can learn from the great strides made in education in revolutionary Russia. "All Russia was learning to read, and reading - politics, economics, history - because the people wanted to know. . . . In every city, in most towns, along the Front, each political…

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Outdoor Ghost Lab at the Utopia Festival, Somerset House, London, 2016

Monday, 20 March 2017 20:50

Social haunting in the Brexit coalfields

Written by Geoff Bright

in Education

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 of England. Over this last three years I’ve enjoyed bringing together a team of academics, artists, community trade unionists and activists in what…

Ghost labs Unite Community Miners' Strike 1984 Brexit

Saturday, 04 March 2017 19:53

Education, Culture and Capitalism

Written by Martin George - fix

in Education

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 is to sketch out the background to some issues around links between education and the general ‘cultural struggle’ which Culture Matters is aiming…

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