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The biggest teachers meeting in Tower Hamlets for more than 35 years last week unanimously voted to ballot all NUT union members in the east London borough for strikes against cuts.

Libraries have become one of the expendable, junkable parts of modern capitalism.

The public library service is in crisis. The government’s slash-and-burn approach means a 28 percent cut in spending on them.

The National Union of Teachers is seeking the earliest possible timetable for co-ordinated industrial action to defend pensions.

The Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) has announced that it is preparing to ballot members for a national strike over the government’s plans to increase teachers pensions contributions. If it goes ahead, it will be the first time the ATL has struck since 1979.

Ballots for strikes will begin next week in the lecturers’ UCU union on jobs, pay and pensions.

"No parents with a talented boy should feel that Eton is necessarily beyond their means."

Paul Foot, who went to Shrewsbury public school, once wrote, "The main characteristic of the school I went to was barbarism."

Eton was advertising for a pantry assistant earlier this month—offering £10,483 per year for a 40-hour week.

The UCU union has confirmed dates for strike ballots in both the further and higher education sectors over jobs, pay and pensions.

The Tories want to snatch away a decent education from millions of working class children.

Kids not cuts! That was the fighting message from striking teachers who started three days of strikes yesterday (Wednesday) over "savage" job cuts.