The year 2020 has caused many white people to realize we live in a racist system. The Green New Deal is about systemic change for all, and deconstructing racism must be front and central in this agenda.
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Emboldened By Firefighters, Public Sector Workers Demand Pay Rise Across U.K.
“The government’s insistence that the limit on public sector pay will remain at 1 percent is unacceptable and in no way reflects the hard jobs that people are doing day in day out."
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"Educational Excellence"? Brits Critical of Government Academies Say Think Again
“It is a complete bonfire of pay and conditions," said David Gilchrist of the Anti-Academies Alliance, who claims the government has "no evidence to back up the claim that academies improve educational standards – in fact the opposite is true."
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UK Doctor and Teacher Strikes Show A Powerful Movement Growing Against Austerity
It is uncertain what will happen next as teachers and doctors challenge the government alongside social movements – but it is clear that opposition to Britain's neoliberal moment in history has finally gained momentum.
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Right to Strike In U.K. Jeopardized By New Anti-Union Bill
If you make the right to strike so much harder to realize, you change the balance of power between the employer and employee.
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U.K. Teacher Strikes Reveal Public Sector Unrest As Trade Union Power Grows
A series of teacher strikes over pensions, pay and conditions in England and Wales are the most recent example of larger nationwide resistance to austerity and privatizations.
