National Education Union (NUT Section) Conference 2018 A Morning Star special pullout

Much to debate and much to decide for delegates this Easter

HIS Easter by Kevin Courtney ment methods used in our on teacher pay are clear — with 2015-16. This is simply will be holding a weekend of weekend the NEU (NUT Section) schools is driving the joy out with government teacher unsustainable. action on April 21-22 to high- NUT section general secretary of learning and teaching. recruitment targets missed Our survey of members light our serious concerns. of the National The government has year after year and teach- on funding will be released So, much to debate and TE d u c a t i o n turned our classrooms into ers leaving the profession over the Easter weekend. It much to decide. Union will be orities that delegates feel exam factories with chil- in record numbers. paints a bleak picture. The NEU will be work- debating the issues that are getting in the way of dren from the age of four Funding is having a dev- With local elections ing in the months ahead matter most to teachers and either their profession or upwards being tested and astating impact on schools around the corner, the gov- to ensure that government school staff. children’s education. measured within an inch and pupils. Some £2.5 billion ernment should pay heed to listens to the voice of our It is clear from our Survey after survey dem- of their life. has been lost from budgets the fact that education fund- members and starts mak- agenda that workload, onstrates the unsustain- Teacher pay has been cut since 2015 resulting in 91 per ing played such a big part in ing the changes we need funding and assessment able hours being worked by by 15 per cent since 2010. cent of schools facing real- the general election. in education, funding and are some of the main pri- teachers. The current assess- The impact of these attacks terms budget cuts compared The School Cuts coalition employment. DON’T FORGET! NO MORNING STAR EDITION ON MONDAY. WE’LL SEE YOU ON TUESDAY

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A Morning Star OVER 80% supplement National Education OF TEACHERS Union (NUT Section) Conference 2018 ‘VICTIMS OF AMANDA MARTIN Discusses exciting times ahead for the SCHOOL SEX new union: P2 KIRI TUNKS on the importance of teachers’ overseas HARASSMENT’ links: p5 GAWAIN LITTLE Disturbing report details level of abuse by pupils The trade union has by Sam Tobin Of the 1,290 people surveyed, only one-third reporting every where sexual harassment and bul- more to do than in Birmingham two-thirds claimed to have received incident. lying occur and employers fail to inappropriate comments about NASUWT general secretary operate a zero-tolerance approach. defend status quo: P2 their appearance, more than half Chris Keates said the findings were “While the scale of the sexual MANY teachers in England have said they had received inappropri- cause for concern, but warned that harassment is deeply disturbing, been sexually harassed by one of ate sexual comments and 21 per schools’ failure to act on reports of equally disturbing is the scale of their pupils, a “deeply disturbing” cent said they had been sexually harassment was equally troubling. the failure to act on the incidents KEN JONES examination of life in the class- propositioned. Ms Keates said: “Schools should that were reported.” room by teachers’ union NASUWT Some 3 per cent said they had be places of safety, yet research NASUWT’s research shows that 8 has found. been the victim of “upskirting” — undertaken by the NASUWT is per cent of teachers surveyed claim Tackling Tory dogma A recent survey of teaching staff taking photographs or videos of a showing us that too often teach- they were sexually harassed by a found 81 per cent felt they had suf- victim’s groin from beneath their ers are being exposed to sexual- pupil. is essential: P4 fered workplace sexual harassment clothing — or had images taken ised comments and abuse from One respondent said a sixth-form or bullying since entering the pro- down their top while at work. colleagues, managers, parents and student wrote a sexually explicit fession, while 30 per cent said they Shockingly, 42 per cent of teach- pupils. story about a member of staff and had been subjected to unwanted ing staff said they did not report “The NASUWT will have no hesi- handed it in to them. Plus much more! touching. any incidents of harassment, with tation in taking action in schools Turn to page 2

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NEU/NUT CONFERENCE SPECIAL EDITION Exciting times ahead for our new union

ASTER 2018 for me tion unions to join us in our and, I guess, other campaign for funding because NUT delegates will AMANDA MARTIN is full of optimism disunity only divides. be filled with opti- All workers in the educa- Emism and excite- about what the NEU can achieve tion sector face the same chal- ment and tinged lenges, so all unions in the with a little nostalgic sadness. sector should be stepping up Brighton sees the last ever to the plate. NUT annual conference — locally and nationally. change we need to look back will. Let no-one characterise Without professional unity number 147! There has never been a bet- at what the visionary, former public-sector workers as oppo- we are doing our future genera- Looking back it is amazing to ter time to put pressure on the NUT general secretary Steve nents of change. Nothing could tions a disservice. see what an impact our union government and Ofsted. Sinnott had to say back in 2004. be further from the truth. We as the NEU need to find has had on the working lives Research, parent groups, “I pledge that no-one will “For teachers, change is at ways to continue with our own of teachers and the education pupils, academic experts, areas work harder than I to achieve the heart of our profession. A recruitment but at the same “ system in this country. of the business world and our the union’s historic objective of child is changed by education. time work with others to bring As the National Education union are speaking with one unity in the profession. A child can be liberated by them into the family. It is vital that we Union, still in its infancy, voice. “Below the surface, despite it. We are experts in change. There is only one enemy begins to grow and combine It is vital that we seize the present open differences Change and progress come and that at the moment is this seize this the best aspects of both union this opportunity because the between the teacher unions, from involvement, creating atrocious Tory government, traditions, we can be filled with system and profession are at there are opportunities for pro- shared objectives, common which simply does not care. optimism at the high impact breaking point. fessional unity to be achieved goals. Yes, working in partner- I have always said that the opportunity that the NEU has already had. We have won some gains on by the generation of teachers ship. Change for the better can- union should be the family Since bursting onto the trade funding, £1.3 billion put back to which I belong. not be achieved by imposition.” that you want to join, fami- because the union platform in September, into the education budget “I will not squander these If the NEU are truly to do lies have differences but when the NEU has seen a growth in after our successful campaign opportunities. We should cor- as Sinnott suggested some 14 needed they pull together — to system and membership, and a real positive and workload guidance from rect the aberration of 70 years years ago and seek unity in the seek progress and fundamen- buzz in schools and colleges up Ofsted and conversations with of disunity. Public-sector work- profession, we need to extend tal change we need to pull and down the country. all three political parties. ers do not wish to scar any- our hand to the other educa- together. profession are at It is with great pride that I But is this enough? Short body’s back. We are healers and tion unions — something I did have attended meetings along- answer: no. It is a great start we are carers, but this govern- from the platform of TUC 2017 ■ Amanda Martin is senior vice- breaking point side my ATL colleagues both but if we are to make real ment is squandering our good when I invited all the educa- president of the NUT.

does not recognise any funda- “performance”-related rewards mental difference of interests and punishments, based on between working people and narrow measures of school those who hold economic and effectiveness, which have noth- A trade union should political power. ing to do with genuine educa- The problem with this view, tion and have a knock-on effect when applied to education, is on the curriculum, increasingly that it simply doesn’t stand up narrowing and stripping out to closer inspection. valuable educational experi- do more than just Even a cursory acquaintance ences for children. with education policy over As a profession, teachers the last 30 years shows funda- have resisted these changes in mental differences of opinion a variety of ways, individually around the purpose, structure and collectively. Teachers’ natu- defend the status quo and management of the educa- ral inclination to question, to tion system. challenge, to seek to understand The coincidence of interests and, where necessary to subvert between the policies set in bad policy, has ensured that the HE final con- organised education workforce motion by the 1988 Education monotone vision of a measur- The formation of the NEU ference of the and what can such an organ- Reform Act and those of Con- able, standardised education NUT offers us ised workforce achieve? servative-led governments since has failed to take root in the an opportunity Throughout the history of 2010 (what Professor Howard majority of classrooms and the gives a chance to think Tto reflect on the the trade union movement, Stevenson refers to as the reali- majority of schools. However, I proud traditions there have been a variety of sation of the “1988 project”) is believe it is the role of our union of the National Union of Teach- different answers to the ques- not a matter of chance. to collectivise these battles. radically about how we ers and its predecessor the tion: what is the purpose of Similarly, the underlying As Benjamin Jealous Todd National Union of Elementary a trade union? Most of these, continuity throughout the said: “There are only two types Teachers. however, are variations on New Labour years (albeit with of power: there’s organised peo- might want to shape It gives us an opportunity one of two basic philosophies some real and meaningful dif- ple and organised money, and to celebrate the victories the of trade unionism. ferences in implementation), organised money only wins tomorrow’s education policy, union has won in its 147-year The first views the work- and the alignment of policy when people aren’t organised.” history and the difference it place, and the structure of trajectories internationally The counter to the vested has made to the lives of its wider society, while not with- (often referred to as the Global interests that seek to “reform” argues GAWAIN LITTLE members, and the lives of the out its problems and distor- Education Reform Movement) our education system is to children they teach. tions, as fundamentally just. are not matters of chance. organise and mobilise the However, it also forces us to It argues that the main role They represent an under- creative power of education confront some significant ques- of trade unions is to ensure, standing of, and vision for, edu- workers. tions about the future of the within the current system cation which is fundamentally As the rules of the National movement. of industrial relations, the opposed to that of teachers and Education Union state in Aim 1: The process of amalgama- fair treatment of trade union other education professionals. “To promote and support educa- tion with the ATL, and the members. Crucially, it is also fundamen- tion as a critical and creative creation of the National Edu- It may even go as far as to tally opposed to the interests of process, which enables learners cation Union, has provided an advocate or campaign for the majority of those they teach. to understand and contribute to opportunity to reflect on the improvements in the legal sys- At the classroom level, wider society and the world in aims and purposes of an edu- tems of protections for work- this difference of interests which they live and to change cation union, to consider not ing people. But fundamentally is, if anything, sharper. New it for the better.” only what we have achieved it seeks improvements within management policies have in the past but what our ongo- the system and to align the stripped away professional ■ Gawain Little is a member of ing relevance is in the future. interests of all stakeholders autonomy and confidence from the NEU (NUT Section) national Crucially, why do we need an “for the common good.” It educators, subjecting them to executive. Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk 2 Saturday/Sunday news morningstaronline March 31-April 1 2018 @m_star_online n EDUCATION n FRONT PAGE LISTING DANGEROUSLY: A North Sea oil rig 81% OF Pic: Nick Bramhall/Creative Commons Village School academy plot TEACHERS HARASSED as good as dead, says insider FROM P1: A further 7 per cent said abuse came from a colleague, 6 by Marcus Bennett The Department for Educa- per cent said the harassment was tion (DfE) will reportedly reject by a manager, while 2 per cent the offer to turn the school into said it came from a parent. PLANS to turn a special edu- an MAT on the grounds that Another respondent said cation school in Brent into an is not big enough, even if a inappropriate, untrue and academy have been rejected by proposed amalgamation with unsolicited comments from a the government, the National neighbouring Woodfield School male counterpart had such a Education Union (NEU) goes ahead. dramatic impact on her family announced yesterday. NEU has called for Brent life that she and her husband Government insiders told Council to drop their plans for eventually divorced. Hank Roberts, a member of further MATs, which they say Of teaching staff experienc- the NEU’s joint executive, that are “deeply flawed.” ing incidents of harassment, 43 the attempt to turn The Vil- They have also urged the per cent said they suffered a lage School in Kingsbury into council to publicly reiterate loss of confidence as a result, a multi-academy trust (MAT) its call that The Village school with 38 per cent experiencing will be rejected. should remain a local author- anxiety or depression. In a statement, Mr Roberts ity school. Almost half said they made attacked the “monumental Mr Roberts said: “So it is changes to their daily routine to incompetence” of attempts to clear that it was only these two avoid the harasser, while nearly turn the school into an acad- schools (the Village and Wood- one third said they felt under emy, laying the blame firmly field) they were consulting on. pressure to change their appear- on Kay Charles — executive “It would be shameful if ance or style of clothing in an head of the school — and local any attempts are made to go WINNING: Protesters demonstrate against academisation of the Village effort to put a stop to the trouble. Labour councillor Sandra Kabir, secretly scrabbling around in School in February NASUWT’s annual confer- who chairs the school gover- an attempt to find other schools ence will vote on a motion on nors. to join them, enabling them to In January of this year over halt the process of academisa- workplace bullying, address- Mr Roberts today accused Mr make a different proposal with- 100 staff at The Village went on tion while alternative models ing the “increased incidence Charles and Ms Kabir of lead- out a full consultation.” strike against the plans laid out of partnership could be investi- of staff bullying staff and the ing the drive for academisation, The union also said it is cur- by Ms Kabir, who is a Labour gated with Brent council. horrific impact this continues despite clear and “overwhelm- rently scrutinising documents whip on Brent Council. The DfE could not be reached to have on teachers’ mental and ing” opposition from staff, par- over alleged “financial irregu- Their demands remain the for comment. physical health and careers.” ents and the local community. larities” at one of the schools. same — that Ms Kabir must [email protected] [email protected] n NEU CONFERENCE Pessimism envelops classrooms as support fails by Marcus Barnett government funding for the A further 55 per cent Kevin Courtney praised the “The government should in Brighton education sector. reported that class sizes had survey for highlighting the be ashamed of this list — yet, Survey results from 900 risen since 2017, and two-thirds “dreadful consequences” of unbelievably, it is instead stand- NEU members showed that of correspondents mentioned Tory budget cuts in our schools. ing idly by and doing nothing MOST teachers are “pessimis- 94 per cent of respondents severe cuts to special education He said: “Removing teaching about it.” tic” about the future of their felt despondent about school needs provision. and support staff is gathering Mr Courtney urged the gov- schools amid funding and staff budgeting prospects over the Teachers also complained pace, parents are regularly ernment to address these issues cuts, according to new research next three years. about the hidden damage of being asked for money, sub- and warned the government from teachers’ union NEU. Over half reported that maintenance budget cuts, jects are being dropped from to remember the impact that The report paints a bleak teaching posts had been cut, with one respondent decrying the curriculum, school trips school funding had on public picture of the state of educa- with 80 per cent stating that the “filthy” state of the school cancelled, books and resources voting intentions during the tion, as well as showing a cat- they had experienced teaching they worked in. are not being replaced and class 2017 general election. astrophic lack of support and assistant posts being cut. NEU joint general secretary sizes are rising. [email protected]

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Pupils’ social media bullying by Sam Tobin is driving teachers offline in Birmingham

HUMILIATED teachers are Ms Keates said the pres- TEACHING has become more being driven off social media ence of mobile phones in the stressful than ever due to as pupils are posting videos classroom has had a marked “punitive and crushing” sur- of classroom incidents in impact on teachers’ private veillance of teachers’ perform- a bid to embarrass them, lives. ance, NASUWT president Dan NASUWT union leader Chris She said: “We’ve had teach- McCarthy said yesterday. Keates warned yesterday. ers who […] don’t want to Mr McCarthy, an English Ms Keates said staff across look on social media and per- teacher from Essex, told del- England have reported trou- haps find comments about egates at the union’s annual blesome children seeking themselves. Some have said conference in Birmingham that hits on YouTube by secretly they felt humiliated in front teachers “change lives.” recording a riled teacher. of pupils and it’s adding to But Mr McCarthy warned “You might get a situa- the anxiety and pressure that that “observation overload” tion which seems quite low goes with the job anyway.” and excessive workloads had level, where the pupil starts Ms Keates said some schools “very clear outcomes: mental to answer the teacher back, have clear policies on mobile ill-health for the teachers and they might have a piece of phone use in school, insisting the children. And more money equipment in the classroom that devices are locked away for consultants.” that they suddenly start to and used only once lessons He said teaching was an pass around.” have finished for the day. “intrinsically” stressful profes- morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline features Saturday/Sunday @m_star_online March 31-April 1 2018 3

SPECIAL EDITION NEU/NUT CONFERENCE

ELEGATES gath- ering for the last conference of the National DUnion of Teach- 147 years of fighting for ers will have a number of chances to celebrate the extraordinary history of a union that has been centre stage in public life for all of 147 years. They will receive a copy of a the interests of teachers popular pictorial history enti- tled Pride, Passion, Profession- alism: The NUT and the Strug- gle for Education 1870-2017. Though written by author and activist Martin Cloake, this and pupils alike history draws on a collabora- tion between colleagues with a variety of skills. But then how could a history of the main As the NUT merges into the new National Education Union, teachers’ union not be based on working together? It tells the story of a union PHIL KATZ looks back at a century and a half of campaigning formed by just 100 delegates and a volunteer general secre- tary in June 1870. from urban centres, so that In the words of its first presi- they could be safely relocated dent, JJ Graves, the union was and their schooling continued “convinced that by the eleva- despite the threat of bombing. tion of the teacher, we elevate Over a single weekend, in the value of education and what is still the biggest ever accelerate the progress of civi- movement of people in British lisation.” history, teachers organised the The principle that “what’s evacuation of three million good for teachers is good for children without a single fatal- pupils,” and vice versa, has ity. Most were back at school guided the NUT ever since. the following week. Professionalism and trade And in 1966, the small pit vil- unionism would henceforth lage of Aberfan, near Merthyr not be opposites. The two ele- Tydfil in south Wales, was the ments would intersect and scene of the biggest peacetime create a unique combination disaster in education when an such that, when times were entirely preventable slippage hard, the union could use its of coal slurry slammed into a knowledge and practice to school, killing five teachers and shape education, often through 109 pupils. political action. The response of the NUT was And in good times, it would immediate, it was social union- drive the organisation on ism at its most effective, and it through campaigning and rescued a little bit of humanity industrial action, such that by in the killing fields of France especially during last year’s from the callous disregard of the end its membership num- and Belgium during World general election when hun- employer and government. bered 330,000 and had a pres- War I, produced some of its dreds of thousands of voters When all the events, ence in nearly every school in best activists in the combined changed their previous hab- personages and structural England and Wales. struggle for trade unionism, its and put their cross by the changes that affect a union The union brought this women’s suffrage and equal name of the Labour candidate over such a long period have powerful combination to bear pay, played a contradictory role out of concern at school fund- been absorbed, one might ask to weaken bad legislation and during the general strike and ing cuts. It was an issue that whether there is a single ele- strengthen good. It played an shaped education policy that the union made a talking point ment that takes pride of place. organised and focused role in resulted in the 1944 Act. in many households and every If there has to be one, it can the struggle to shape the key The union then began the community. be found in the closing words education Acts of 1870, 1902, struggle for comprehensive of the author when he writes 1944 and 1988 and other leg- education and increased pay s project co- of the NUT having, “another islation. and professionalism, achiev- ordinator, I am perspective, one that recog- Whereas it was arguably at its ing a graduate-entry profession only too aware nises the enduring strength most powerful in 1944, it was and, along the way, affiliating of the many of the basic ideas of free edu- not able to neuter the destruc- to the TUC in 1972. Some read- Aamazing charac- cation for all, social justice and tive impact of the 1988 Baker ers may be surprised that this ters, events and solidarity.” Act, which allowed primary and came so late. outcomes, especially of local It is likely that, on the NUT’s secondary schools to opt out of Since the 1988 Act, and the campaigns, that simply could passing into the National Edu- local authority control and be high point of Thatcher’s rule, not be included because of the cation Union, its history will funded by central government. the union has never wavered. space limitations. Our hope is be revisited many times. His- In many ways, this Act It has campaigned tirelessly that the records of the union torians and writers will find sought to reverse the trajectory against the break-up of edu- are more systematically gath- few unions which have had the of 1944, and efforts to block its cation and its privatisation, ered so that further histories impact of the NUT or matched negative aspects have shaped as well as against the Global can be written. its sustained activism on a con- the struggle for education over Education Reform Movement, There is a fantastic story of sistent set of core values. the last three decades. such as Minnie Lansbury, who and NUT member. a radically reactionary pro- women’s struggle for equal pay In the words of Kevin Court- It is rare that an organisa- sacrificed so much for the suf- It tells for the first time gramme of rolling back social and suffrage waiting to be set ney, the last general secre- tion lays itself open to critical fragette cause. the story of the teachers who gains through education on a down. tary, “it’s a members’ history” scrutiny in the form of a writ- Likewise, with the threat of became London recruits to the global scale. Two episodes that did make because members make his- ten history; the last one about fascism looming, some enrolled underground struggle against But all through its history, it in, and which I believe will tory. And long may that be so. the NUT was written in 1970. in the International Brigades apartheid, taking personal the union has been at its best change the way that members But although this is a popu- and fought in the Spanish civil risks to fight white minority when it has asserted, cam- look at their union, took place ■ Phil Katz is the principal officer lar pictorial account, it is not war, among them Bill Alexan- rule in South Africa. paigned for and negotiated in 1939-40 and in 1966. for communications and campaigns a hagiography. For the first der, the commander of the In the course of those 147 positive alternatives. At the outbreak of war, teach- at the the National Union of Teach- time, it relates the story of British Battalion who went on years, the union witnessed the Its influence has been felt ers were charged with organ- ers and director of the union’s his- those teachers and members, to become a chemistry teacher Boer war, lost many members industrially and politically, ising the removal of children tory project. morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline news Saturday/Sunday @m_star_online March 31-April 1 2018 3

n LABOUR n ENERGY Oil rig worker sent home after finding ‘blacklist’ CORBYN PASSOVER AN OFFSHORE worker Repsol Sinopec Resources was removed from a UK (RSRUK). platform in the North However when he took Sea after discovering a it to management he was VOW TO FIGHT “blacklist”, he claimed told to leave the platform, yesterday. according to the online The rope access rigger, industry magazine. who does not wish to be RSRUK told the site it named, found a set of 15 takes the allegation “very ANTI-SEMITISM names of offshore work- seriously” and has found ers while working on the “no evidence” that anyone ANTI-SEMITISM: ‘I am your ally and always will be’ says Labour leader Claymore platform last has been treated unfairly. month, three of whom Management met with by Ceren Sagir Labour under his leadership ing it illegal to acknowledge had either not passed union officials to discuss has become more anti-semitic Polish complicity in the Holo- an assessment or been the matter yesterday. — a charge strongly rejected by caust. They have frozen the law described as “aggressive.” Unite regional officer JEREMY CORBYN vowed yes- organisations including Jewish that returns property looted by He told Energy Voice John Boland told Energy terday that he is an ally in the Voice for Labour and the Jew- nazis to Holocaust survivors. that he spotted the Voice: “The thing is that fight against anti-semitism ish Socialist Group, who point “In France, the neo-fascist document, which has for someone to put it on a and hopes Passover will mark to Mr Corbyn’s long record of National Front is on the rise no accompanying notes, Repsol spreadsheet, that a move towards closer relations action against racism including and just days ago 85-year-old on a shared drive in a person must have thought with the Jewish community. anti-semitism. Holocaust survivor Mireille computer room on the that is fine to do, so there The Labour leader said yes- “In the fight against anti- Knoll was brutally stabbed to platform, operated by is a culture there.” terday that the religious holi- semitism, I am your ally and I death in an anti-semitic attack. day is a time to celebrate “a always will be,” Mr Corbyn said. “We see the far-right extrem- journey from oppression to In his message Mr Corbyn said ists gathering support for their freedom.” this year marks the 75th anni- hateful ideology in the US too.” “We remember all our Jewish versary of the struggle of Jewish Mr Corbyn said it is easy to brothers and sisters, who have partisans in Warsaw, when they denounce anti-semitism when battled against discrimination discovered on the first night of you see it in other countries and faced the most horrific acts Passover that the nazis intended and other political movements, of violence and mass murder.” to destroy their ghetto. but is sometimes harder to see Mr Corbyn also said the “They decided to stay and it when it is “closer to home.” labour movement could never fight, holding out against the He added: “I am committed be complacent about anti- nazi war machine for a month,” to ensuring the Labour Party is semitism but admitted the he said. a welcoming and secure place party needs to “do better.” Mr Corbyn also made a for Jewish people, and I hope The message follows accu- warning about the rising lev- this Passover will mark a move sations from right-wing poli- els of anti-semitism around to stronger and closer relations ticians, the Board of Deputies the world. between us and everyone in the of British Jews and the Jew- He said: “In Poland, the gov- Jewish community.” ish Leadership Council that ernment has passed laws mak- [email protected]

n MANCHESTER Burnham defends Arena bomb response FIREFIGHTERS are not to so by decisions taken above you” members felt “ashamed” they blame over delayed response and a failure of “process, leader- could not help casualties more to the Manchester Arena terror ship and culture.” quickly after the incident that attack, the city’s mayor Andy Poor communications left 22 dead and scores injured. Burnham insisted yesterday. between the police and fire serv- Mr Burnham wrote: “While I In an open letter to the ice meant the “valuable” assist- understand why people feel like county’s firefighters, Mr Burn- ance of fire crews was delayed this, it is important for me to say ham acknowledged those on by two hours and six minutes that I think that they are wrong. the front line on May 22 were after the bombing, a report by “No front-line firefighter “desperate to help.” Lord Bob Kerslake found. in Greater Manchester has to However he told them that Fire Brigades Union (FBU) north apologise for anything. You and they were “prevented from doing west secretary Mark Rowe said colleagues did nothing wrong.” n NASUWT CONFERENCE Surveillance culture causing ‘crushing’ stress on teachers sion, but it had become “more taking their own lives.” tinue to fight to give teachers stressful as the challenges of Mr McCarthy said teaching the conditions where they can poverty and inequality have services were the “foundation give our future generations an worsened.” for civilised society,” and that educational experience that Teachers, however, have society needed to start working respects who they are, where been made subject to increased “harder to foster and support they come from and what they STA members have played a prominent role in building current monitoring rather than being teachers.” can and do achieve, as well as NUT campaigns - on funding, SATs and workload and in defence of supported, he said. He added that today’s cur- one that is fun, fulfilling and comprehensive education. Our aim is to develop mass campaigns, which Mr McCarthy said: “There riculum was too narrow, say- engaging.” involve members in winning real gains for teachers, children and education. is more ‘surveillance’. Surveil- ing pupils needed “an English [email protected] The STA has consistently supported strike action as part of union lance that is not positive and curriculum that is about crea- campaigns. STA members are active at every level of the union from developmental, but punitive tivity and expression” and sub- school-based activist to local officers, executive and crushing. ject criteria “which encourage members and national officers. STA members are also involved in many FOLLOW US other campaigns such as the People’s Assembly, Stand Up to Racism, “I have been told by col- speaking and listening,” not just ON TWITTER leagues that they are not just teaching towards exam results. Stop the War Coalition, Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Cuba Solidarity thinking of quitting teaching He told conference dele- @M_Star_Online Campaign and campaigns on climate change. but that they have considered gates: “Together we must con- To join the STA online go to www.socialistteacher.org/join-us Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk 4 Saturday/Sunday features morningstaronline March 31-April 1 2018 @m_star_online

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NGLAND’S school for eliminating “unnecessary” system, the prod- elements of teacher workload. uct of the educa- But it’s difficult to see such tion reform Act There’s a growing desire to ideas making a decisive differ- E(erA), is 30 years ence. To create an education in old this year. which the energies of teachers The erA’s biggest claim was are unchained, so that they can that it would raise standards. address the needs of all learn- Through a mix of market pres- throw off the rigid shackles ers in an ever more complex sures and state direction, it and unequal society, changes would deliver schools from the on a greater scale are needed. grip of ineffective teachers and These changes have to be incompetent local authorities. the work of many hands. The It would make england’s school of Tory educational dogma Labour Party has made a start, system “world class.” in opening up discussion around how are these claims looking a national education strategy. now? From several perspectives, These discussions will they don’t look too robust. Labour has opened up discussion around a national develop fastest if they are When the Organisation for linked to the growing move- economic Co-operation and ment to oppose actively central Development’s (OeCD) Andreas education strategy and, by engaging as a movement, we can features of the current system. Schleicher looked at england In the campaign against cur- in November last year, he saw rent forms of primary assess- a school system over-reliant on develop new radical ideas for the future, argues KEN JONES ment, More Than a Score, teach- rote-learning and memorisation. ers, educationalists and parents When Confederation of are mobilising to stop a new British Industry president Paul how have government pledges matter how fragile the evidence policy-makers in the rest of the indicators set by government baseline test for four-year-olds, Drechsler spoke about educa- of fundamental change taken for their effectiveness. world think about educational and policed by Ofsted. and to bring to an end an assess- tion last month he lamented us back to a curriculum remi- Nick Gibb, former KPMG practice and what has been This is the system that has ment system based on SATs. the emphasis on test scores and niscent of years long past? accountant and minister for decreed for england. created an exam factory cul- The effects of the erA have exam results, at the expense of english Conservatism bears a schools since 2014, insists that But the problems don’t just ture in schools, forcing the lain across english education “thought, questions, creativity lot of responsibility. ever since children should be taught to arise from Conservatism’s long curriculum along a narrow for three decades, suffocating and team-working.” Surveys the 1970s, politicians of the read through the method of record of misguided micro- pathway and making workload initiative, frightening off those of teachers’ work — like the right have patrolled the field synthetic phonics. interventions. both extensive and intense. who would want to do things OeCD’s Talis survey — depict a of teaching and learning, seek- For older students, he has Labour governments shared how is this long and unpro- differently. It is time to reject massively overworked profes- ing to make a public scandal of put in place a GCSe curricu- with Conservatism a belief in ductive record ever going to that legacy. Fortunately, there sion, struggling to find the space schools’ attempts to respond to lum based on a narrow range the virtues of new public man- change? There are any number is a growing will to do so. for initiative and innovation. It diversity and the modern world. of subjects, and notorious for agement — that educational of proposals for minor reform — is difficult to equate any of this repeatedly, Conservatives its exclusion of the arts. standards would rise fastest if for taking other indicators into ■ Ken Jones is senior policy officer, with “world-class” education. have imposed on schools their A gulf has opened up between schools were held to account consideration, besides test scores, curriculum and assessment, of the how has this come about? own dogmatic preferences, no the way that educationalists and for their performance against when holding schools to account; NEU (NUT Section).

here is no alter- n a t i v e ! ” This was To reclaim our schools we need “TMargaret Thatcher’s repeated slogan in the 1980s as she bulldozed industry, priva- tised public services and ham- critical thinking and reliable research mered trade unions. In her final years of govern- ment she embarked on a total restructuring of the school TERRY WRIGLEY on how a new network of academics aims to put sound system — privatisation, com- petition, punitive inspections, a rigid national curriculum knowledge into the hands of teachers to help them bring about change with little connection to eve- ryday lives, league tables of test data. Schools must be managed like businesses and are rare. Teachers’ professional includes research-active teach- can play an important sup- expose the lie that baseline espouse business values, their judgement has been systemati- ers and activists from various porting role by making sound testing could accurately meas- key purpose being to produce cally undermined. curriculum bodies. knowledge accessible. ure the “ability” or “potential” “human capital.” Government policy sees The network has a blog We are beginning to feel of four-year-olds. To consolidate this, she had teachers as a “delivery” sys- and Twitter account and has the potential of partnership examples such as these show to eliminate major sources tem for a centrally imposed published pamphlets. Knowl- between university research- the power of linking reliable of alternative thinking: an and standardised curriculum, edge-building seminars have ers and a union with a proud educational research to the experienced school inspec- excluding the experiences and brought together union activ- history of critical thinking. campaigning strength of an torate (hMI), the ILeA and its voices of parents, children and ists and academics to sharpen Indeed, the 150-year history education union but there is curriculum centres, teams of teachers. Teaching which pro- thinking about data, testing, of the NUT and its predeces- much more to be done on issues experienced advisers and eAL motes empathy and solidarity, accountability and child pov- sor the NUeT is exemplary for such as high-stakes testing and specialists in local education creativity and citizenship, is erty. its intellectual vision, and the accountability; privatisation; authorities. suppressed. We assisted the More Than combination with the ATL to selection; poverty and undera- University-based teacher edu- It is not surprising that many A Score coalition to produce a form the NeU can only make chievement. cation was seen as dangerously people regard the present situ- new book Beyond the exam this stronger. We look forward to work- progressive — an attack which ation as “common sense.” It Factory: Alternatives to high- rapid communication ing with the NeU on a range culminated in Michael Gove’s seems beyond doubt. Teachers Stakes Testing. between specialists has helped of projects, including sup- infamous use of “The Blob” to below the age of 45 haven’t ‘BLOB’: Michael Gove This links sharp arguments union officials demolish Nick porting school-based research describe the 100 academics who known any different, though about primary school tests with Gibb’s claim about the superi- partnerships, in the struggle dared to oppose his new cur- it has gradually got worse. It is work of over 100 research- rich examples of assessment ority of the dogmatic literacy to regain control of educa- riculum in an open letter. vital to build networks of alter- ers in nearly 40 universities, designed to support children’s methods he had imposed. tion, restore decent social val- This has left a situation native thinking. In roberto committed to working with learning, not attack teachers. We quickly obtained evi- ues and encourage the educa- where teachers no longer have Unger’s words, “The dictator- the National education Union We recognise that research dence of excellent results tional experiences our children accessible and reliable sources ship of no alternatives cannot to put reliable and critical in itself won’t “reclaim from more enlightened child- deserve. of support to develop their be overcome without ideas.” research into the hands of schools.” That will require the friendly teaching in Ireland. teaching, and where oppor- This is the purpose of teachers. combined power of teachers By drawing on some expert ■ Terry Wrigley is joint co-ordina- tunities for critical reflection reclaiming Schools, a net- reclaiming Schools also and parents, but researchers statisticians, we were able to tor of Reclaiming Schools. Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk 4 Saturday/Sunday news morningstaronline March 31-April 1 2018 @m_star_online

■ PAY Month-long wage gap for workers on minimum pay by Our News Desk 84 more days to earn the living wage, said the report. Living Wage Foundation direc- WORKERS on the government’s tor Tess Lanning said: “There will National Living Wage have to be a welcome pay rise for some of work an extra month to earn the UK’s poorest workers. the same as those on the higher, “However, over 5.5 million voluntary rate, according to new workers will still fi nd themselves research. earning less than a real living The statutory minimum goes wage, and struggling to make up on Sunday from £7.50 an hour ends meet. to £7.83 for over 25-year-olds. “For these people, the govern- This is below the voluntary ment minimum won’t be enough real living wage of £10.20 an to cover the basics, save for a hour in London, and £8.75 out- rainy day, or provide security side the capital. for their families. The Living Wage Foundation “That’s why we need to see said a full-time worker on the more companies step up and statutory rate receives almost pay a real living wage based on £1,800 a year less than those on the cost of living.” the higher, voluntary fi gure, so More than 3,900 employers it would take 33 days to make are accredited with the Living up the shortfall. Wage Foundation, meaning they For workers in London the are committed to paying the vol- gap is wider, at £4,621, mean- untary rates. ing they would need to work [email protected]

■ JUSTICE SYSTEM Violent criminals released after bail law changes

THOUSANDS of suspects in vio- on suspicion of murder. lent and sexual crimes have been During this time, 6,683 sus- released without conditions since pected off enders were released changes to police bail came into without further action, 2,430 eff ect. were charged and 3,149 More than 3,000 people were released under investigation. released under investigation for The Home Offi ce said it had ■ TRANSPORT off ences such as murder and asked forces to review their rape over a three-month period, use of bail. according to a BBC report released It follows a 28-day limit on yesterday. pre-charge bail which came Four-day strike begins over Requests for information were into eff ect last year, as part of a sent to all 43 police forces in Eng- shake-up aimed at ending the land and Wales, but only 12 sent “injustice” of individuals being MORNINGSTAR data. ONLINE.CO.UK ‘disgraceful’ train operators kept under a cloud of suspicion Figures covering April to for long periods of time. The socialist June 2017 included 1,692 people Suspects who are released news hub by Our News Desk attempts to threaten, bully and South Western Railway and arrested for violent crimes, 768 “under investigation” are still harass our members fi ghting to their pig-headed attitude.” rape suspects and 31 questioned subject to police inquiries. put public safety before private SWR said in a message to RAIL workers launched an profi t,” he said. passengers: “We’re really sorry Easter weekend of industrial “It is the continuing intran- that once again, you are to be action yesterday in the long- sigent attitude of the company subjected to unnecessary indus- running dispute to keep guards which means that this latest trial action by the RMT. on trains. phase of industrial action goes “We plan to run our full LABOUR, VALUE Members of transport union ahead over Easter in an eff ort service on all four days and RMT on the South Western to force them to see sense and will do everything we can Railway (SWR) are refusing to to drive them back to the nego- to minimise any eff ect this AND EXPLOITATION work during the four-day Easter tiating table for genuine and strike action may have. We do break. meaningful talks. however advise you to check The action follows a strike on “We know before you travel.” An online introduction to Arriva Rail North on Thursday that this action A 48-hour RMT strike over the same issue. will have a seri- on London’s Docklands Marxist economics Five train operators are now ous impact on Light Railway ended embroiled in the dispute, which services and the yesterday morning after provided by Marx Memorial Library, commencing May 21 2018 – has been raging for almost two r esp on sibi l it y crippling services. an eight week course of four fortnightly classes years since it fi rst broke out at for the disrup- [email protected] Southern Rail. tion caused will Learn remotely, fl exibly and at your own pace RMT general secretary Mick be wholly down to £25 waged £10 unwaged Cash called SWR “frankly dis- graceful” for point-blank refus- DRIVEN: Mick Cash ing talks with the union over More info and registration: the safety-critical guard on board trains. http://www.marx-memorial-library.org.uk/education/oTO MARK THE LIBRARY’S 80TH ANNIVERSARY THE FEE WILLnline-course BE £1 PER CLASS: £7 IN TOTAL. THIS SHOULD BE PAID AT THE FIRST “Instead, they continue to OR Marx Memorial Library, 37a Clerkenwell Green, London EC1R 0DU resort to the crudest possible morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline features Saturday/Sunday @m_star_online March 31-April 1 2018 5

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Pic: Oklahoma Education Association

RESISTANCE: Teachers in Oklahoma are among the lowest paid in the US

A DIFFERENT MODEL: Cuban primary school children

HE NUT has a The state-wide teachers proud history of strike in West Virginia has international col- resulted in a 5 per cent pay laboration going increase and similar campaigns Tback years. The are springing up in Oklahoma, work of the Steve Arizona and Kentucky. Our international work Sinnott Foundation has con- The birth of a student-led tinued that and more recently mass movement against gun the union’s development of violence is another inspiring its solidarity work has placed development, and the Black internationalism at the heart Lives Matter campaign has of our own campaigns. given hope and power to black is more than charity. It It is important not to see people here. our international work as an It is never possible to simply optional extra, because it is so transplant what has worked much more than that. in one part of the world to For a start, the threats we are another, but that doesn’t mean facing in the British education that there aren’t serious lessons enriches us as much as system are part of a global lib- to learn that we can adapt for eralisation of education which our own context. is seeing a growth in priva- In Mexico, despite horren- tised schools, the sidelining of dous human rights abuses, teacher expertise and pedagogy teachers are at the forefront in favour of standardised teach- of the battle to reclaim educa- ing resources and an increase tion for the community and it supports our peers in high-stakes testing, known make sure it is the educators as the Germ (Global Education who provide the leadership on Reform Movement). what should happen in schools. trips energised and empowered welcoming refugee children Educators all over the world And then there are countries KIRI TUNKS explains to challenge things in their into our schools, proving that are fighting these things and where the education system is school and to become more international issues are never we benefit hugely by working something to be emulated. active in the union. far from home for any of us. alongside our international col- Take Cuba, a small island the importance of the As one delegate on last year’s The union has a web page leagues in such organisations hamstrung by a decades-long Cuba trip said: “It was great of guidance, films and teach- as the Kenyan National Union economic blockade but which to see a different educational ing resources developed by of Teachers (KNUT), which is has literacy rates in line with NEU’s overseas links model and to see a workforce our members and we will be fighting the for-profit educa- many countries in western emboldened by their union. the proud co-sponsors of this tion provider Bridge Academies Europe (and better than those This trip has made me a braver year’s Refugee Week, which International, or the New Zea- of the US). Its “Yo, si puedo” found much closer to home. forgotten or the work we do teacher.” runs from June 18 to 24. land Education Institute, in its literacy programme has been At the recent Challenging with the Holocaust Educational We have a growing network Our international work successful battle against char- used in over 30 countries Sexism Conference, delegates Trust to remember the Shoah of international solidarity offic- is more than charity. It is a ter schools and standardised (particularly with disadvan- were hugely enthused by the and learn lessons from it. Our ers and the establishment of respectful engagement with testing. taged communities) includ- Agenda project on helping union has lobbied the govern- international networks. our peers that enriches us as Both unions have taken on ing Australia, Nigeria, Brazil young people develop positive ments of Turkey and Iran to This year at conference, our much as it supports them. huge global vested interests and, most notably, Venezuela, and healthy relationships. It uphold the human rights of international guests will be All of this work allows us to and won significant battles: the which was declared “illiteracy has been produced by academ- teachers and academics. We hosted by different divisions so be informed, to challenge false- High Court of Kenya found in free” in 2003 by Unesco. Over ics at Cardiff University in con- have spoken out on the ethnic that they can spend time with hoods, to shape the narrative of favour of KNUT in its criticisms 10 million adults are estimated junction with Welsh Women’s cleansing of the Rohingya and union members from around what is happening in education of Bridge and the New Zealand to have benefited from this pro- Aid, the Children’s Commission the attacks on trade unionists the country and exchange ideas and beyond. It ensures that we government has announced gramme. for Wales and the Welsh gov- in places such as Colombia. and knowledge. This is a power- have access to a range of global plans to end charter schools Likewise, Finland has been ernment. Our now regular delega- ful initiative which will further perspectives and this can only and standardised tests. These at the vanguard of educational Schools in the rest of Britain tions to countries including embed our international work aid our own campaigning. victories should give us hope achievement for decades, with desperately need government- Cuba, Palestine and Nicaragua in the heart of the union. Britain is home to people that we can start to win on high academic results despite endorsed resources and statu- are increasingly popular with Many of our members have from every country in the these things here too. children not starting formal tory relationship and sex edu- members, who get the chance to been active in collecting world, so we have a duty to Another area where we can schooling until the age of cation. A year after we were see what life is like for educators resources for the camps in understand what is going on learn from our international seven, having short school promised guidance in this and students living in struggle. Calais, in delivering them and outside our borders. colleagues is union organising. days, long holidays and no country, we are still waiting. Of course, we take messages volunteering in the schools. But we should also recognise The huge successes of the Chi- homework. Now the Finns are We should press for Agenda to of solidarity and support to Others have got involved how our global connections cago Teachers Union are rooted rolling out project-based learn- be on the agenda here. our friends, but we also learn with the work of the Edukid help us to navigate the wider in forensic work re-energising ing across the whole country. And then there are the les- a great deal from them about charity in Palestine, Uganda and ever-changing world. the union in every workplace Think what we could learn sons in history and solidarity. coping with adversity and and Cambodia. and taking its campaigns to the from them… Our work ensuring that the being resilient. Of course, many more of us ■ Kiri Tunks is president of the community. And good practice can be genocide at Srebrenica is not Delegates return from these will have had the privilege of NEU/NUT. morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline news Saturday/Sunday @m_star_online March 31-April 1 2018 5

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PASSIONATE: Heavy rain doesn’t stop crowds from attending the Good HOMELESS TASKFORCE Friday performance of the Passion of Jesus in Trafalgar Square SLAMMED AS ‘PITIFUL’ CRISIS: Tory Sajid Javid faces criticism as the number of people living on the streets spiral

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COMMUNITIES Secretary Sajid Javid’s announcement of a new rough sleeping taskforce was slammed yesterday as a “pitiful response” to the national crisis. Following Tory promises to break the cycle of homeless- ness, the government team will aim to reduce the number of people living on the streets. Mr Javid says it will be made up of experts from government departments and agencies with specialist knowledge in areas such as housing, mental health and addiction. A £30 million fund has also been set up to help deal with high numbers of rough sleepers — amounting to around £72,000 per council. Mr Javid said the latest plans John Healey dismissed the ini- new low-cost housing.” knowledge in areas such as were part of the government’s tiative saying a national crisis The severity of the situation housing, mental health and ongoing work to halve rough which has grown worse every for England’s estimated 4,700 addiction. sleeping by 2022 and eliminate year since 2010. rough sleepers was highlighted Homelessness charity Shel- it by 2027. He said it represented “a piti- by the snow and freezing ter’s Greg Beales said the new The government has faced ful response to a national cri- temperatures when a record measures would make “a gen- intense criticism over spiral- sis that has grown worse every number of rough sleepers were uine difference,” but added ling numbers of people on the year since 2010. You can’t help referred to a specialist helpline that most of the people on the streets and housing minister the homeless if you won’t pro- by members of the public. streets had become homeless Heather Wheeler has promised vide the homes, and the money The rough sleeping team will as they could not afford accom- to resign if the problem gets announced here is less than be made up of experts from modation, a situation made far worse on her watch. one per cent of the Conserva- government departments and worse by welfare cuts. Labour’s housing spokesman tives’ annual cut to funding for agencies that have specialist [email protected]

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NEU/NUT CONFERENCE SPECIAL EDITION Why union renewal is an imperative Now is the time to organise around issues and ideas, seeking to challenge what we are against, while making possible what we are for, says HOWARD STEVENSON

DUCATION work- ship levels, but they have not These are the pressures that ers around the been able to maintain their drive the deskilling and work world are on the influence. intensification that bedevil move. From West Since the 1988 Education teachers. EVirginia to Brit- Reform Act unions have been We described a strategy of ain’s UCU, strikes able to mitigate the impact of resistance as one which sought we are seeing show increasing neoliberal reforms in educa- to mobilise against the key ele- numbers of union members tion, but not been able to fun- ments of the neoliberal school taking extraordinary and damentally disrupt them. system (tests, performance- inspiring action. There are many explanations related pay and privatisation, It is as though the slow-burn for this, not least the need to for example) while also seeking of post-crisis austerity has understand the power of the to disrupt the logic of neoliber- sparked to life and that the state and its determination to alism and marketisation. bright flames of resistance are impose education reforms far This is clearly a more ambi- increasingly taking hold. more aggressively than in any tious prospectus and one which We are also seeing that the other comparable country. has been difficult to realise. The This was in part due to the by working in more fluid and Moreover, it is already hap- disaster that is the neoliberal However, part of the expla- approach has been best exem- union’s relative isolation (an flexible forms. pening and has been happen- restructuring of our education nation also lies in understand- plified by the National Union issue potentially addressed by Such a shift in union cul- ing for some time. system has become much more ing the strategies of education of Teachers which has consist- the formation of the National tures is not easy, it requires Recent examples include the visible. unions during this period. ently sought to challenge the Education Union) but also the adoption of new practices spectacular Schools Cuts cam- Bankrupt academy chains, In our book Transforming policies identified above, but because the union’s organisa- and it also requires a relentless paign with its focus on member a huge funding crisis and the School Workforce (2010) often with only limited success. tional structure continued to focus on member development engagement, and the inspiring chronic system “gaming” at the Bob Carter, Rowena Passy and reflect the education system — going out to members, draw- campaigns successfully chal- expense of the most vulnerable myself identified three strate- it had mirrored, but which no ing them in and developing lenging academisation. students are just some of the gies open to education unions longer existed. their skills and confidence to Young Teacher activity I have problems now clear to see. — rapprochement, resistance It was also heavily depend- organise and act collectively. witnessed recently is some of New possibilities for resist- and renewal. ent, in common with other edu- None of these things are the best and most energising ance are opening up. The chal- “Rapprochement” referred cation unions, on a shrinking easy and they do not happen union work I can recall seeing. lenge is to identify the strate- to situations where unions activist base. by accident. There are countless other gies most likely to capitalise on sought to work pragmatically Given these limitations we examples while we are also these opportunities. with governments in order to “ argued at the time that union hose already getting much better at recog- This is never straightfor- secure the best outcomes for “resistance” is a necessary, involved in the nising successes, sharing them ward, but is arguably most members. The need for but not sufficient, condition if union need sup- and learning from them. complex in the English school The underpinning rationale resistance is to be successful. port to develop This is union renewal in sector. was not to challenge the basic union renewal The third strategy we identi- Tthese capacities action and it is already gener- This is because the system logic of reforms, but to go with fied, drawing on the work of in others. ating new activists interested has been deliberately frag- the grain of policy and secure Peter Fairbrother and others, There is, however, no alter- in building their union at their mented precisely to weaken the the best deal possible within emerges from a is union renewal. native to union renewal. A workplace and in their commu- power of organised teachers. those parameters. Union renewal is focused on union that is not renewing is nities. My perspective may be Academisation was always This approach is best illus- purpose — the an active resistance to marketi- declining and so union renewal affected by the extraordinary intended to deliver public trated by the social partnership sation and managerialism and is an imperative, not an option. experience of involvement education to private providers, that involved some education the pressures driving deskilling Nor can it be seen as simply in the UCU strikes but I am but it was also intended to neu- unions between 2003 and 2010. drive for us all to and work intensification, but it a technical process, based for convinced that the corner has tralise the influence of the one The social partnership model is also predicated on a trans- example on more recruitment already been turned, and new force capable of thwarting that remains controversial, with be able to formation of the union itself. campaigns or member training. opportunities are opening up. objective — unionised teachers. those involved highlighting Emphasis is placed on mem- The need for union renewal Union renewal requires us Dismantling national collec- several successes (see Carter ber connection, engagement emerges from a purpose — the to connect the issues, the ideas tive bargaining, introducing et al, 2010). exercise and participation — not simply drive for us all to be able to exer- and the organisation to make school-based performance- What appears clear in hind- recruiting members but draw- cise meaningful control over all sure that when the opportuni- related pay systems and culti- sight is that this approach meaningful ing them into activity. aspects of our work, our work- ties arise unions can mobilise vating a fear-driven manageri- underestimated the scale of the Union renewal is about ing conditions and the wider their collective strength and alism must all be seen as part attack on public education and control over creating active, inclusive and context in which we work. seize those possibilities. There of a class-based strategy to try the teachers who work in it. vibrant union cultures in the Union renewal happens really is a world to win. to defeat teacher unionism. By working with the sys- workplace where workers see, when we organise around During this 30-year war on tem, rather than seeking to all aspects of and feel part of, the union. issues and ideas, seeking to ■ Howard Stevenson is Professor of the teaching profession, educa- challenge it, the pressures of It is about deepening union challenge what we are against, Educational Leadership and Policy tion unions have been able to marketisation and high stakes our work democracy by increasing mem- while making possible what we Studies at the School of Education, maintain their high member- accountability remained intact. ber participation — oftentimes are for. University of Nottingham. Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk 6 Saturday/Sunday world morningstaronline March 31-April 1 2018 @m_star_online n FRANCE n UNITED STATES Leftwingers deny Arizona teachers join battle anti-semitism after for substantial pay increase Melenchon booed by Our News Desk lowest paid in the US, while secondary school teachers are 49th of 50 states. by Ben Chacko parallel street, saying that the TEACHERS in Arizona are now “West Virginia woke us march should not be diverted demanding a 20 per cent pay up,” Arizona Educators Asso- by a row over his presence. rise after victories for their ciation president Joe Thomas FRENCH socialists hit back yes- “What is important is the counterparts in Oklahoma and told a crowd in Phoenix on a terday at slurs suggesting the message — that every Jew knows West Virginia. day of action for education on left shares the anti-semitic prej- they are under the protection Oklahoma’s Republican Gov- Wednesday. udices of the right, after zionist of the entire national commu- ernor Mary Fallin hastily signed Teachers wore red as part of groups forced France Unbowed nity, and that our reserves of a tax rise package on Thursday the #RedforEd campaign call- leader Jean-Luc Melenchon love for our people will never night to give teachers pay rises of ing for an end to years of cuts out of a march against anti- be exhausted,” he said. between 15 and 18 per cent in the by Republican administrations semitism on Wednesday. Rabbi Yann Boissiere said the hope of preventing a state-wide keen to offer tax breaks to big The Representative Council treatment of Mr Melenchon was school shutdown next week. business. of Jewish Institutions in France outrageous. The measures include a sur- National Education Associa- (Crif) had said Mr Melenchon “We must absolutely not put prise increase in tax on oil and tion president Lily Garcia said was as unwelcome at the event on the same plane the National natural gas extraction from 2 public services had been evis- as National Front leader Marine Front, a fascist party whose anti- to 5 per cent in a state which cerated by cuts since the bank- Le Pen because of the supposed semitic culture is proven, with has previously fawned on the ers’ crash of 2008. prevalence of anti-semitic the rebellious parties,” he said. energy industry. “It has been an unmitigated views on the left and far right. In France’s l’Humanite newspa- While teachers in the state VICTORY: Teachers celebrate in West Virginia’s senate earlier this month disaster, and it’s now coming The march was called in hon- per, Audrey Loussouarn said the are still planning to walk out when legislators voted to raise pay by 5 per cent after a nine-day strike home to roost on all those our of murdered 85-year-old far-right Jewish Defence League, on Monday, Ms Fallin says she folks who blindly cut taxes, not Mireille Knoll, who police believe known for racist attacks on hopes it will be a “one-day rally lions short of union proposals. Adrien Gates said. “We need caring how that was going to was killed because she was Jewish. mosques and Muslims and seen as for education” rather than a Oklahoma’s education fund- to take this all the way.” impact communities,” she said. Crif’s stance was attacked by terrorist by the government, had prolonged strike. ing per pupil is 47th of the 50 But the successful showdown [email protected] Ms Knoll’s son Daniel, who said forced Mr Melenchon out while But that isn’t certain, since states, almost $3,000 below the with Republican legislators, fol- everyone should unite against providing “physical protection” the pay rise offered — the US average. lowing the 5 per cent raise won HAVE YOUR SAY anti-semitism. But Mr Melen- for Le Pen supporter Gilbert Col- first for Oklahoma teachers “They need to fund our by West Virginia teachers, has Write (up to 300 words) to chon was booed and told to “fuck lard, who it described as “a great in 10 years — falls short of the schools better, and until that inspired Arizona’s teachers to [email protected] or off” when he joined the march. defender of the Jewish state.” $10,000 demanded and new happens, we’re going to walk take action too. Primary school 52 Beachy Rd, London E3 2NS Mr Melenchon went to a [email protected] funding for schools is also mil- out,” primary school teacher teachers in the state are the morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline features Saturday/Sunday @m_star_online March 31-April 1 2018 7

SPECIAL EDITION NEU/NUT CONFERENCE

HE educational place, and if members didn’t because of the agency of mem- cannot be underestimated. landscape has need training to challenge the bers and their relationships We can use our collective We need become almost direction of travel in education with the families they live in, power when we win over over unrecognisable policy, then we would not need among and work for in schools. the broader community, not Tover the lifetime to have our member-led organ- When parents and carers only to the value of the staff at of the National ising to take us into the next pick up children or attend the school, but also to the vital Union of Teachers. phase of the union. progress evenings they are message about the importance to build a The removal of collective It is our organising agenda often meeting the very people of unions in our society. bargaining by a Conservative that has evolved over recent who spend more of the wak- When we change a work- government removed one of years to make the NUT influ- ing day with their child than place struggle about funding the biggest levers for unions ential on policy and power they do. into a community struggle for in the late 1980s, and the neo- because of its members and Educational professionals the education system that we union that is liberal project has succeeded in how we are engaged. prepare a whole new genera- all want, it can be transforma- some of its aims through the The membership has bloomed tion for becoming adults and tional for the working class and fragmentation of education alongside the growth and sup- these ties to the community be one of the most powerful by academies; marketisation port of the union’s activist base, lessons we will ever teach. and competition; growth in one that puts the members at the It is the organising agenda also a social standardised testing and league centre and gives them agency. that has been developed that tables; end of the national pay This model of organising has given our members the key framework and performance- has developed real strength to their own liberation by hav- related pay and the privatisa- for our members, the kind that ing campaigns that take every tion of education services. has rebuilt the collective voice opportunity to become a part For some time the education and influenced policy. of the community and come to movement trade unions failed to punch Communities matter a great influence the power that brings their weight, but we have deal when it comes to win- with it. Without the agency of changed too. ning: they are one of the most the workers and their commu- The historic decision to form influential factors in changing “ nity there can be no win. the National Education Union political direction. This belief that organising It is through engaging created a stronger voice to It is because the members Communities are is for, and by, the lay members speak up for those working in are reforging relationships is the one we must take into education and challenge gov- between parents and teachers, one of the most the new union, and keep at its with communities that ernment policy. and between our union and our heart that real change happens This is a game-changer for communities, that real power is from the bottom up. education professionals, but growing in the current hostile influential If we truly want to continue we can win our battles, there must be clarity on how environment. The only way we to grow we cannot just tell the we make the most of this can build real power is through factors in members that this is our union, writes DAWN TAYLOR opportunity within its organ- a union which is a social move- we must behave that way at ising strategy. ment. every level. We need focus, because if This doesn’t happen changing the fight for a work-life bal- through a glossy messaging ■ Dawn Taylor is a member of ance were easy, if discrimina- campaign, nor even the best- political direction the NEU (NUT section) national tion wasn’t rife in the work- placed Facebook ads: it happens executive.

HE National Educa- NEU believes the only way to tion Union wants shift the debate is through to shape the future a campaigning model that of education. This takes up ideological and politi- If we want to win, we Tis what members cal issues as well as economic said they wanted ones. The union’s campaigning from the amalgamation of the model also emphasises member- ATL and NUT: they wanted the ship participation and working union to be a “game changer.” with allies wherever possible. This is a big ask. At its heart, campaigning is have to think How to realise this aspiration about building power and influ- lies at the heart of the strategic ence to effect change. The NEU campaigns of the NEU. believes it necessary to identify For 30 years, education pol- strategic campaigns to fully icy in England has been framed resource and genuinely try to strategically by neoliberalism. The belief win. Strategic campaigns are that market mechanisms will those that, if successful, will lead to improvement has led to help to unpick the entire neolib- the fragmentation of education Clarity about aims and means is needed if the delivery to engender competi- tion between schools; the lib- eralisation of terms and con- NEU is to free education policy from the neoliberal ditions for education workers; and an increase in standardised high-stakes testing for children stranglehold, argues DAVID WILSON to inform league tables and “consumer choice.” Because of this situation, eral education edifice by strik- informs which tactics should be heads, teachers and parents in lost since 2015 continues, but it we have seen a narrowing of “ ing at the key links in the chain. adopted at any particular time. applying political pressure. The is an indication that campaign- the curriculum and a decline Each NEU campaign has a This may sound obvious, but tactics included developing a ing can move things. in children’s mental health; At its heart, clear aim. Defining an aim it is amazing how many cam- website to show the effect of cuts Over the next few weeks, teacher workloads rising to makes it easier to understand paigns fail to follow this simple on individual schools. the membership of the ATL unsustainable levels; a decline campaigning is how far you have to travel to model, confusing tactics with The campaign resulted in and NUT sections of the NEU in teachers’ professional status; be successful, which can give strategy or being unclear about 750,000 people changing their will be deciding on priority real-terms pay cuts; and, to top an indication of the resources the aim or target. votes at last year’s general elec- campaigns. it all, since 2015 there have about building and time needed. Defining a The School Cuts campaign tion. Thousands of teachers and For each, the question that been real-terms cuts in school campaign aim also allows the initiated by the NUT and ATL parents were involved in high- will be asked is how do we funding for the first time in a power and identification of who the target conforms to the campaign lighting and organising around win? This is the key question generation. or decision maker is that needs model described above. Its aim the issue and, as a result of this that the trade union movement Successive governments’ ideo- influence to to be moved. was clear: to reverse the cuts in pressure, the government found needs to give attention to. logical belief in neoliberal meth- Once a specific target has funding imposed since 2015. The an extra £1.3 billion for schools ods has made them immune to been identified, it is easier to target was primarily the govern- that was not previously available. ■ David Wilson is assistant gen- evidence and advocacy. effect change construct a strategy to apply ment, but also opposition par- This isn’t enough, and the eral secretary (campaigns) of the It is because of this that the pressure. A clear strategy then ties. The strategy was to unite fight to win back the money National Education Union. morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline world Saturday/Sunday @m_star_online March 31-April 1 2018 7

n BRAZIL Lula slams elites as ‘unjust’

BRAZIL’S former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has accused Latin America’s elite of being hostile to democracy. “The elite doesn’t want democracy — for them, it is no more than the poor yell- ing that they are hungry,” he said in an interview with former Ecuadorean president Rafael Correa. Lula, as Mr da Silva is universally known, was the most popular president in Brazil’s history and still leads in the opinion polls. But he may be unable to stand at the next election because of a conviction for corruption that is widely seen as stitched up. “In Brazil, there is a pact between the media, the justice system, the office of the attorney general and the police,” he said. “First, they criminalise people through the media and then, when the person is condemned, they carry out the judicial process.” Lula said the coup that CASUALTY: A wounded Palestinian is helped by ousted his elected succes- fellow protesters after he was shot by Israeli troops sor Dilma Rousseff in 2016, ostensibly for breaching state spending guidelines, was punishing governments n PALESTINE that put Latin American interests ahead of those of the US. SIX SHOT DEAD AS ISRAELI ARMY n SYRIA Bomb kills US troopers OPENS FIRE ON NAKBA PROTESTS TWO soldiers of the US- GAZA STRIP: Thousands flock to besieged enclave’s borders in a massive show of opposition to Tel Aviv’s stranglehold led coalition in northern Syria have been killed by Our News Desk marched up to the Israeli lines. by a roadside bomb, Buses took Palestinians to which also wounded five the border while mosques more, the Pentagon said AT LEAST six Palestinians were called on their congregations yesterday. killed by Israeli troops yester- to participate. It did not reveal day as demonstrations in Gaza “The large crowds reflect whether they were US sol- were attacked with lethal force. the Palestinian people’s deter- diers or where the attack Gaza’s ruling Hamas move- mination to achieve the right took place, though it ment has called for mass sit- of return and break the siege, might have been the ins along the besieged enclave’s and no force can stop this same incident as a road- border with Israel in the run- right,” Hamas spokesman Fawzi side bomb explosion in up to the 70th anniversary of Barhoum said. the mixed Arab-Kurdish the Nakba (“catastrophe”) on On the anniversary itself, town of Manbij reported May 15, the day that marks Hamas says that Palestinians by the Syrian military. the forced expulsion of over will seek to march across the The type of weapon 700,000 Palestinians from their border. used indicates an attack homes during the establish- The Israeli Defence Forces by one of the jihadist ment of the Israeli state. said that Palestinians rolled groups fighting the Syr- The vast majority of Gaza burning tyres at the lines and ian government, rather residents are descendants of threw stones, prompting sol- than Syrian, Kurdish or Palestinians who fled or were diers to open fire at “the main Turkish forces. driven from communities in instigators.” Rebels of the Jaish what is now Israel. The Palestinian Health Min- al-Islam group, which Yesterday’s protests involved istry reported that over 500 UNDER FIRE: Tear-gas canisters land among Palestinian protesters near the Gaza Strip’s border with Israel occupies Eastern Ghouta, giant tent cities being set up people had been wounded and yesterday denied Russian within a few hundred yards of at least five killed by gunfire. border fence,” though he was We ran there and found him Major General Eyal Zamir reports that they had the border, while thousands The sixth confirmed victim killed more than a kilometre hit directly.” added. agreed to evacuate. was a farmer, Amr Samour, away from it. Israel said it had doubled the He warned Palestinians to They had been offered MORNINGSTAR killed by an Israeli tank shell “I was working in the next number of troops guarding the stay away from the border and safe passage to Islamist in his fields before dawn as he field,” said his relative Yasser border. said that Hamas bore respon- sronghold Idlib if they ONLINE.CO.UK gathered parsley for market. Samour. “We are identifying attempts sibility for any violence that agreed to pull out. Socialist news hub Israel said it had directed fire “We heard shelling landing to carry out terror attacks took place. at “suspicious figures near the on the field where Amr works. under the camouflage of riots,” [email protected] Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk 8 Saturday/Sunday features morningstaronline March 31-April 1 2018 @m_star_online

NEU/NUT CONFERENCE SPECIAL EDITION

WO years ago, I made a speech at the NUT annual conference, high- Educate, agitate, Tlighting the need for the union to increase recruitment of young teacher activists. Two years on, the need organise: the remains just as urgent, if not more so, as education in Brit- ain continues to face crisis after crisis, from cuts to funding, to the creeping threat of privati- sation, to the undermining of need for young the philosophical foundations of public education. Both the Southend and Sut- ton Associations will be pre- senting motions promoting NEU activists recruitment of young teachers at this year’s annual confer- ence. This article will summa- rise many of the issues raised, The formation of the National coupled with wider issues around union engagement. Young teachers — in NUT Education Union is a historic parlance, that is members under 35 years of age — make up 33 per cent of the member- opportunity to expand education ship of the NUT Section of the National Education Union. trade unionism, writes PHIL YEELES Yet the average age of a union officer is 53, as of November 2017. As the Sutton Association making gains for all teachers, That is not to say that the notes in its motion, the average including non-members. union has not supported young union recruitment of PGCE stu- But it’s not quite all doom teachers well in the past, hav- dents is 95 per cent, whereas it and gloom. The formation of ing established several repre- falls to just 50 per cent among the National Education Union sentative bodies within the School Direct trainees. is a historic opportunity to union, but the time is ripe This places a heavy respon- expand education trade union- to push forward and specifi- sibility upon workplace rep- ism, and one which the NUT cally target young teachers to resentatives, who must make has called for for some years. encourage them toward officer “ the case for union membership Unity is strength, as they roles. directly, often to an audience say, and the incorporation of As a proudly lay-led union, As the nature of for whom the trade union the ATL and the NUT into a new it is absolutely vital that those movement is entirely unfamil- education union can only help who constitute the future of teacher training iar, and who may well be hos- the cause. teaching take on leadership tile to trade unionism, given its The inclusion of teaching responsibilities. consistently negative depiction assistants and other educa- This is, however, part of a changes, it has in the mainstream media. tion staff is also significant; wider problem with activist This is compounded by the after all, we are all on the same and, by extension, pupils. ers within your school. Don’t be recruitment across teacher become more fact that not every school has side. With more members, and So here is a call to action: get afraid to rock the boat: remem- trade unions. a union representative; in my more resources, the National involved and build your union. ber that we’re all in it for the As the nature of teacher train- own area, Cambridgeshire, we Education Union will be able If you are a young teacher, you betterment of education, of our ing changes, it has become more difficult for have a significant proportion to expand recruitment in the are the future of the union and working conditions, and of our difficult for unions to make “first of schools with no union rep, coming years. of the profession, and future pupils’ learning conditions. If contact” with new teachers. unions to make and therefore no simple route In an environment where gains will only come with we don’t do it for ourselves, it Last year, over half of newly through which to recruit new teacher retention is, frankly, passionate activists willing to won’t happen. qualified teachers undertook ‘first contact’ teachers. alarming (with 45 per cent of work for the benefit of teach- training other than through This is detrimental to the respondents to a recent union ers, schools and, crucially, ■ Phil Yeeles is a primary school universities, largely severing entire profession, as trade survey of young teachers say- children. Become a rep. Join teacher in Cambridge, and presi- the traditional route through with new union effectiveness is predi- ing that they were intending to your local committee. Become dent of the Cambridgeshire Asso- which trade unions have been cated upon worker engage- leave the profession within five an officer. Get involved in local ciation of the National Education able to recruit new and student teachers. ment. Difficulty in recruiting years) this will be essential in campaigns. Spread the word Union (NUT Section). His blog can teachers. members means difficulty in improving the lot of teachers about the union to new teach- be found at www.yeel.es. Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk 8 Saturday/Sunday features morningstaronline March 31-April 1 2018 @m_star_online

Struggle on the Streets the best photos from the week’s protests around the world

ABOVE: A protester, wrapped in a Catalan flag, takes a stand against the arrest of Catalonia’s former president Carles Puigdemont LEFT: Students of Mehmet Akif College in Kosovo protest against the arrest and deportation of five Turkish teachers in Kosovo, the school is said to be owned by cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom President Recep Tayyip Erdogan blames for an attempted coup two years ago

ABOVE: Council workers in Athens protest outside the Greek Parliament demanding their contracts are renewed in light of continuing austerity measures

ABOVE: Protesters fly kites and wave Palestinian flags during a demonstration near the Gaza Strip border for The Great March of Return, a six-week protest that is scheduled to end on May 15 LEFT: A group of students walk the 50 miles across Wisconsin to the hometown of US representative Paul Ryan, who has blocked gun reform, to call for tighter gun laws following the Florida school massacre morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline features Saturday/Sunday @m_star_online March 31-April 1 2018 9

SILENT VOICES: Mass silent walk to mark the six-month anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire in west London and (bottom) Sajid Javid MP — Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government

Diane Abbott shadow home secretary Grenfell tragedy compounded by Tory council crass indifference

AST week, survi- vors of the Grenfell Grenfell survivors, fed up with Kensington and Chelsea Council dragging its Tower fire called for Kensington and feet over rehousing, have asked for it to be placed into special measures. LChelsea Council (RBKC) to be placed into special measures after it The Tory government response will be eagerly awaited was confirmed that not every- one would be rehoused within a year of the fire. now needs to step in and put the House of Commons recently, has failed to ensure its own this extra funding, while a sprin- In terms of Grenfell, Labour This is a community trauma- RBKC under special measures.” Javid said that nine months on promise is met when it comes kler system is being retrofitted believes that what the govern- tised by the loss of their loved Even the government seems from the fire, just 62 out of 204 to rehousing the victims of last in Parliament. ment must do now is give a rea- ones and their homes — in what to have lost patience with the households had been resettled June’s catastrophe. If sprinklers are good enough sonable timescale when it comes the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) failing Tory council which, it into permanent accommoda- As people in Grenfell join the for MPs, they are good enough to rehousing. calls the worst fire in terms of was recently reported, has spent tion, saying there have been silent march for justice each for residents in tower blocks. The government needs to take fire deaths in living memory — nearly £21 million in keeping “totally unacceptable” delays month on the monthly anniver- As of February, 301 of 314 affirmative action in the face of and its views must be heeded. Grenfell Tower survivors in in the process and admitting sary of the tragedy, it becomes high-rise buildings with Gren- the continuing failures in this Yet both the government and hotel rooms. that “the suffering that these clearer that the national govern- fell-style cladding have failed area and house the survivors the council have been missing The local MP Emma Dent families have already endured ment has failed to meet its own safety tests and only seven of immediately. in action when it comes to prop- Coad says that “without excep- is unimaginable.” commitments. the social housing blocks among If this means taking the coun- erly listening and responding to tion they [those housed in hotels] In total, 188 had accepted And when it comes to the these have completed cladding cil into special measures to get the concerns of this community. want permanent homes which offers of temporary or perma- broader picture in terms of replacement. this moving, then they should Health professionals estimate suit their needs, but are not nent homes and 128 had moved learning the lessons of what There are thousands of tow- listen to calls from the commu- that the mental health of up to being offered anything suitable.” in. Among these, there were still happened at Grenfell, the gov- ers in social housing schemes, nity and do it. 11,000 people could be affected A recent report from the 82 households in emergency ernment continues to refuse student accommodation and Nationally, the government by the fire. The horror and loss government’s official Grenfell accommodation, mainly hotels, to implement improved fire privately owned blocks across must set aside vital funding for caused is unfathomable and the recovery taskforce said that including 25 families and 39 safety regulations — despite the country in which residents local authorities and housing disregard that has followed is the council’s record on con- children. the Lakanal House and Hackitt will be sleeping uneasy. associations, allowing them to unacceptable. verting plans into action was Javid also said that he report recommendations Additionally, the fit sprinklers into tower blocks Writing to Secretary of State “patchy,” that progress regard- expected the council to “take — or to provide the extra National Education and protect the lives of tens of for Communities and Local Gov- ing rehousing had been “too on board its recommendations funding to ensure that Union has also raised thousands of people across the ernment Savjid Javid the com- slow” and confirmed that the and do more to listen to the all local councils can serious concerns that country. It should also end its munity group Grenfell United government’s own deadline for community, to improve links retrofit their tower many new schools reckless cuts to our fire and explained why Kensington rehousing all survivors by the with the voluntary sector and blocks with sprinkler are being built with- rescue service. and Chelsea Council’s failure first anniversary of the fire was to act on the feedback that it systems that could help out sprinklers, despite The government’s lack of to meet targets “had to stop.” unlikely to be met in full. gets from the front line,” but make them safer. guidance to the con- urgency is painfully apparent, Its letter reads: “RBKC has Not only does Theresa May’s all the evidence of the last nine In response to a ques- trary. but Labour is not complacent failed to meet the targets you promise in June to offer rehous- months suggests this will not tion by Jeremy Corbyn and is committed to investing set and it has failed the survi- ing within three weeks lie in be the case, as Grenfell United during the Budget in our housing and safety. vors, bereaved and the com- tatters, but so does the later have so poignantly pointed out last year, Philip munity,” adding that “promise promise to rehouse everyone in its letter. H a m m o n d ■ You can follow Diane at www.twit- after promise has been broken,” within a year of the fire. Whoever Javid tries to blame, failed to ter.com/HackneyAbbott and www. and concludes: “the government Briefing MPs on the issue in it’s clear that the government commit to facebook.com/DianeAbbott Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk 10 Saturday/Sunday features morningstaronline March 31-April 1 2018 @m_star_online Star comment End the Spanish repression should cease – along with the Western silence mistreatment of which colludes with it

IMAGINE the scenario in an autonomous national region Palestinian within the Russian Federation. A majority of elected deputies in the region’s parlia- ment have decided to hold a referendum on independ- ence from Moscow. President Vladimir Putin, the Russian government and the courts declare that the referendum contravenes the children in Israeli Russian constitution. But the regionalists (or “nationalists,” as some call themselves) go ahead and hold it anyway. The majority of electors stay away from the ballot, as national police forces try to close polling stations by force, while the overwhelming majority of voters military courts choose separation. Subsequently, the separatist leadership announces independence but refuses to confirm its decision unequivocally to the Moscow authorities, who then impose direct rule, dissolve the regional parliament The state of Israel is believed to be the only and order fresh elections in which the regionalists win a majority. Despite this, regionalist leaders are accused of foment- country in the world in which an estimated ing rebellion — although they have no record of incit- ing violence — and some flee the country as others are arrested to face trial and very long prison sentences. 500-700 children are prosecuted in military The Russian government applies for international warrants to have the exiles detained and sent back to courts each year, writes BERNARD REGAN Russia for trial.

Throughout such developments, would most European HE United Nations and other Western governments have remained silent, Convention on or said nothing more than that the Russian constitution the Rights of the should be upheld? Child is a human Rather more likely, the air would have been thick with Trights treaty denunciations of Putin thuggery and heavy-handedness. which sets out The arrests would have been seen as proof of Putin’s the civil, political, economic, authoritarian rule, aided and abetted by the Moscow social, health and cultural regime’s judicial puppets. rights of children. The international arrest warrants would have been Around 140 countries are contemptuously rejected with lectures about the West’s signatories to the convention, cherished democratic values and freedoms. including the state of Israel. But these developments refer to Spain and Catalonia, The government of Israel has not to some region in Russia — hence the absence of been criticised however by international outrage. Unicef for stating that it is not It is the right-wing Spanish government which sends applicable to children in the in police mobs, dissolves elected assemblies, arrests and West Bank, which it has occu- imprisons non-violent politicians and seeks to keep them pied since June 1967. in jail for years on end. In the eyes of the conven- And it is Western governments and the EU which issue tion anyone under the age of barely a squeak of criticism of the Madrid authorities. 18 should be treated as a child, Ironically, it is the Russian government which has yet this is not the case for Pales- spoken out loudest against repression and in favour of tinian children arrested by the dialogue to resolve the conflict in Spain and Catalonia Israeli military in the West Bank. under the Conservative gov- seeing a judge was eight days following arrest and 62 per cent peacefully, constitutionally and democratically. According to the Israeli ernment, was funded by the in comparison to 12-24 hours were verbally abused, intimi- Prison Services, the number Foreign and Commonwealth for the Israeli child. dated or humiliated. of children held in the Israeli Office. There were big discrepan- Additionally of these 137 chil- prison system between February The British report said that cies in the length of time a dren, 26 were held in solitary Meanwhile, Catalonia’s ex-president Carles Puigdemont and November 2017 amounted while the age of criminal child might be held in deten- confinement for an average was taken from his car by German police last weekend to an average each month of responsibility for Palestinian tion without charge — some period of 12 days and one was while trying to reach Denmark and Catalan politician some 310, of whom 60 were and Israeli children was the 188 days for the Palestinian, held for 23 days. Clara Ponsati was arrested just a few days ago in Edin- between the ages of 12 and 15. same at 12 years, the minimum in contrast to 40 days for the This is in complete contra- burgh. Both now face extradition to Spain. The state of Israel is believed age for custodial sentences for Israeli child. vention of the convention on The Catalan separatists acted unwisely in calling last to be the only country in the the two was not. However one of the most the Rights of the Child to which October’s referendum, with no clear mandate from the world in which an estimated For Israeli children the age shocking aspects of the treat- the Israeli government is a sig- Catalan people to hold it in the way and at the time that 500-700 children are prosecuted was 14 while for Palestinian ment of Palestinian children by natory. they did. Puigdemont and his cohorts should be account- in military courts each year. children it was 12. Again the Israeli military is that of In a DCI-P report of 2011 able for any gross misuse of public funds. These figures are similar to although it was generally the the whole process of arrest and the list of abuses included Politically, the Morning Star aligns itself with the those quoted in the June 2012 case that Israeli children had detention reported by Defence blindfolding, strip-searching, majority of Catalonia’s communists and socialists, independent report Children in the right to have their parents for Children International — physical violence, extracting who prefer federalism and working-class unity to Military Custody, produced by a present during questioning, the Palestine (DCI-P). confessions during interroga- separation. group of lawyers which included Palestinian children did not. According to its latest report, tion, documents presented in But we also recognise that separatist and nationalist the Right Honourable Sir Stephen Similarly there were vast of the 137 affidavits collected Hebrew (a language most Pal- leaders are unlikely to receive a fair trial and that, Sedley, a former Judge of the differences in other aspects of during 2017 of West Bank chil- estinian children would not in any event, political show trials will not resolve Court of Appeal, and Baroness the treatment of Palestinian dren detained and prosecuted know, at least in written form), the conflict in Catalonia. Spanish repression should Patricia Scotland QC, a special- and Israeli children. under Israeli military courts, transfer on floor of vehicles, cease — along with the Western silence which col- ist in children and family law. The length of time a Palestin- some 74.5 per cent endured hand ties and other abuses. ludes with it. Their visit, which took place ian child might be held before some form of physical violence On July 8 2013, replying to a morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline features Saturday/Sunday @m_star_online March 31-April 1 2018 11

letter written by Kiri Tunks on HIS weekend mindset into realising that behalf of Action for Palestinian clergy will be violence will be used against Children and co-signed by Sir informing their those who want to defend the Geoffrey Bindman QC and Lisa cong regat ions Easter and the gains made by the left. Nandy MP, the then Conserva- Tthat there is more By embracing notions of tive minister at the Foreign and to Easter than martyrdom, groups like the Commonwealth Office respon- chocolate eggs and bunnies. Bob Crow Brigade can be under- sible for the area, Alistair Burt No doubt they would prefer stood as developing means of MP said: “I share your concerns their congregations, politicians coping with the possibility of about the treatment of Palestin- and the public to focus on the return of imminent death. ian children in Israeli prisons.” suffering of Jesus and the mean- Martyrdom for these volun- The letter went on to explain ing of his death by crucifixion. teers can also be seen as a means the representations that have And perhaps our hypotheti- of constructing a degree of politi- been made, but the truth is that cal clergy have a point. The ear- cal agency in the face of the little change has taken place. liest traditions about Jesus that martyrdom might of organisations like Isis, The findings in the British gave rise to the Easter story sug- as well as providing a counter- lawyers’ report were largely gest that he was brutally killed narrative to the idea that those echoed by those contained in because of overturning the tables fighting for the Rojava revolution the Unicef report Children in of the moneychangers and dove- JAMES CROSSLEY were to be labelled “terrorists.” Israeli Military Detention pro- sellers in the Jerusalem Temple. sees parallels But martyrdom was also duced in February 2013. They This was at Passover when assumed by such volunteers to produced 40 and 38 recommen- relations between the Jewish between the death of Jesus on the be an inevitability when fight- dations respectively. None of populace and the Roman author- ing against the seemingly inde- which have been implemented. ities would have been tense, not structible force of capitalism and Tragically this matter has least during a festival remember- cross and the martyrdom of those challenging the dominant West- not gone away and it was for ing the Israelites escaping slavery ern acceptance that there is no that reason that 138 members under another imperial regime. coherent alternative imaginable. of Parliament signed the early Whatever the precise expla- fighting for the Rojava revolution today This was understood as day motion (EDM 563) tabled on nations given for Jesus’s execu- reclaiming the traditional view November 20 2017 by Richard tion, it seems that the Roman of revolution and liberation, Burden on the Military Deten- authorities were convinced namely that violent rupture in tion of Palestinian Children by enough that he was a sedi- capitalism is a near inevitabil- Israeli Authorities. tious threat and so he was put ity if overthrowing capitalism Among the Labour Party to death as a bandit. is to be taken seriously. signatories were Hilary Benn, Roman crucifixion was a Chris Bryant, Kate Hoey, Clive cruel, humiliating and pain- ith par- Lewis, Grahame Morris, Laura ful death, partly designed to allels in Pidcock, Dennis Skinner, Andy let onlookers know who was Tu rk i sh Slaughter and Stephen Twigg. running the world. lef t ism, Conservative Party signato- But what should have been a Wm a r t y r - ries include Crispin Blunt and failure for the followers of Jesus dom was Peter Bottomley. Members was instead rethought in sacri- understood to be a form of of the Liberal Party, Scottish ficial terms and as something vanguardism or a specialist National Party, Plaid Cymru, central to the early Jesus move- act which would function as Green Party and the Independ- ment by picking up on Jewish an inspirational example of the ent member for North Down stories about martyrdom and significance of the Rojava revo- also signed. their inspirational and redemp- BRAVE: Fighters lution back home and show the The plight of Palestinian tive significance for the ongo- of the Bob Crow possibilities available for grow- children held in military deten- ing survival of the community. Brigade and ing the British and Irish left. tion by the Israeli authorities The most famous of these (below) a Martyrdom from the per- has not improved since the two was (and is) Hanukkah, the memorial to spective of these volunteers reports were written. annual commemoration of the Anna Campbell was also constructed in terms In addition to those chal- Jewish revolt against Seleucid of hope and motivation for the lenges, children in the refugee rule which also included gory future and the continual build- camps supervised by the United stories about martyrs and their the death of the activist Anna great trade union leader, one ing of a communal society. Nations relief and works agency function in keeping Jewish Campbell in Afrin. group of volunteers called the But in this understanding of face a major threat to their edu- ideas alive. Campbell had gone to fight Bob Crow Brigade have publicly death, the socialist or communist cation with US President Donald Stories about martyrs and with the Women’s Protection discussed their reasoning and ideal was understood to emerge Trump’s threat to cut UNWRA martyrdom from the ancient Units (YPJ) for the progressive they openly embraced the lan- in a victorious future. Those funding by $350 million. world are unafraid of explain- Rojava revolution. guage of martyrdom. lucky enough to live in these If implemented, it could ing the gruesome details. The motivations of those They unashamedly took the times will have benefited from lead to half a million Pales- Today, this is something typi- who have volunteered to help term “immortal martyrs” from the actions of the fallen martyrs. tinian children in the West cally forgotten in popular under- or fight in Rojava have been the Kurdish idiom Sehid Nami- The martyrs would be Bank, Gaza, Jordan, Syria and standings of Easter where we are misunderstood by certain rin, to denote those who have remembered for the conse- Lebanon being without schools. more likely to see manufactured commentators, such as Simon died for the cause, in this case quences of their actions and it An estimated 30,000 teachers, controversies about whether the Jenkins in the Guardian who the socialist cause. is in this sense that groups such doctors, nurses and other staff word “Easter” is mentioned in thought she should have used The Bob Crow Brigade were as the Bob Crow Brigade could would lose their jobs. connection with chocolate eggs, her skills and idealism to “more fusing these Kurdish ideas with argue with sincerity that the These children, already something to which Theresa May productive ends” such as aid half-remembered martyrdom “martyrs are immortal.” living in the most difficult pandered last Easter. projects and thought her fight- traditions from the radical We should not generalise circumstances, face an even Politicians regularly promote ing in Afrin “bizarre.” and revolutionary left and about the motivations of all bleaker future. As a first step, an Easter that is understood More generally, in some of the the ways in which the deaths the volunteers who have gone ask your MP to sign EDM 563. in banal terms, though if we “unfortunate” but necessary for reporting of the deaths of Brit- of figures such as James Con- to Rojava, but we do have the The situation is critical and look carefully there is always the greater good. ish volunteers prior to Campbell, nolly, Rosa Luxemburg, Fred accounts by volunteers publicly set to become worse. Standing an ideological twist. The death of a soldier or there has been a tendency to Hampton, Che Guevara and, available to see that there are by and doing nothing should David Cameron, for instance, police officer, or someone dying focus on their anti-Isis motiva- more recently, Ivana Hoffmann, thought-out explanations. not be an option. used the Easter story as an occa- for their family, can be remem- tions while claiming it is only were understood. These volunteers have put If you are attending the sion to justify his intensifica- bered as an acceptable or heroic the foreign Kurds who interpret The Bob Crow Brigade themselves in incredible danger National Education Union Con- tion of neoliberalism. sacrifice. such deaths as martyrdoms. updated The Red Flag. Indeed, to support progressive politics ference in Brighton then make He even used an Easter recep- But the language of martyr- Since Campbell’s death there in one widely circulated picture in the face of fascistic threats. a start by coming to the Pales- tion to ground his outsourcing dom remains alien and can con- has finally been some attempt to associated with the Bob Crow It is little wonder that they tine Solidarity Campaign fringe of the state by claiming that jure up notions of irrationality, understand why people like her Brigade, the revolutionaries have brought back with them meeting on Monday April 2, at Jesus invented the “big society” particularly when associated have dedicated their lives to such were pictured on a roof with the language of martyrdom in 5.45 pm in the Syndicate Room (remember that?) 2,000 years with a group like Isis. a dangerous cause in a context the graffiti: “With the blood its most stark sense of dying for inside the Brighton Conference ago and that the Tories were As with the crucifixion of where martyrdom is normative. of the martyrs our flag is red.” a humane cause. Centre where you will hear simply carrying out the Lord’s Jesus for Christians, martyrdom What we know about Camp- This was more than an Following our hypothetical reports from the 2017 and 2018 work today. may remain a concept known in bell is that she was a commit- annual mouthing of a social- clergy this Easter, those of us union delegations who, among Of course, the state does have contemporary English socialism, ted activist prepared to take ist hymn about a glorious past. who lead relatively comfortable other activities, visited schools concepts of death and its sac- but it is still a relatively harmless great risks for her political Death for the Rojava revolution lives, who can barely compre- in the West Bank. rificial benefits but regulates concept typically displaced to a beliefs. But we do have more was happening all around them hend these sorts of risks, can death accordingly. heroic past when mouthing the detailed ideological explana- and could happen to them. at least have the decency to ■ Bernard Regan is a patron of the The deaths of civilians in words to The Red Flag. tions from other British and But the Bob Crow Brigade acknowledge that these are Palestine Solidarity Campaign and wars can be rendered euphe- However, martyrdom in its Irish volunteers in Rojava about argued that martyrdom, and people whose political reason- was a member of the NEU 2018 del- mistically and conveniently as more uncomfortable sense once their revolutionary rationale. everything it entailed, could ing should be appreciated on egation. “collateral damage” or merely again came to the fore with Named of course after the jolt the Western neoliberal their own terms. Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk 12 Saturday/Sunday features morningstaronline March 31-April 1 2018 @m_star_online Billy Strachan – just ‘anot As Britain marks 100 years of the RAF defending the empire by dive-bombing and shooting freedom-fighting locals, PETER FROST remembers one RAF hero with quite a different story to tell

S THE entire coun- west Africa. Strachan decided Strachan’s reputation grew would often raise its head, Stra- RAF LEGEND: Strachan (first try celebrates the it might be best not to correct but on his 15th trip as a bomber chan’s family were quite light- from left) was famous for his centenary of the him but to follow him inside. pilot his nerve finally snapped, skinned for Jamaicans — what avoidance of German fighters founding of the Here he was given strict medi- before he had even left Lincoln- islanders call “high colour.” ARoyal Air Force cal, education and intelligence shire: “I remember so clearly. At one job interview he was (RAF) in 1918 it tests. The next morning he was I was carrying a huge bomb asked: “Which of your parents would be all too easy to believe wearing his RAF uniform. destined for German shipping. is European?” Billy was having the airborne heroes of the After 12 weeks of basic train- Our flight path was directly over none of this. “Neither of my par- defeat of nazism were all Boris ing as a wireless operator and Lincoln city and its magnificent ents is European,” he snapped Johnson lookalikes who took off air gunner, he was made a ser- cathedral perched high on a back before turning on his heel from the playing fields of Eton. geant. He joined a squadron of hill. It was a foggy night, with and leaving without another In fact 574 Battle of Britain bombers making nightly raids visibility down to 100 yards. word. pilots came from countries over heavily defended German “The climb to clear the cathe- In the end Strachan resolved other than Britain. Over 7,000 industrial targets. dral spire was always difficult, that he would study law in Brit- West Indian men and women Strachan’s first crew were particularly with a heavy bomb ain, so that he could eventually served in the RAF and there from various countries of what load. I asked my engineer to go back to the Caribbean with were thousands of others of was still the British empire. make sure we were on course skills useful for the liberation every nation who answered Brit- They flew a bomber named to clear the spire on top of the struggle. ain’s call and helped to defeat Vizagapatam, named after the cathedral tower. He replied: ‘We A close friend, Dr David Hitler and his nazis. Others people of the Indian district are just passing it.’ I looked out, Lewis, who would become of every race and colour came who paid for the plane. shocked that the spire was not famous as a round-the-world- from Africa, the Indian sub- Strachan flew 30 raids over where I expected, below us, but yachtsman, expert on tradi- continent indeed almost every enemy territory. Others were just a very few feet beyond our tional Polynesian sailing craft corner of the Earth. not so lucky. The casualty rate wingtip. I hadn’t seen the spire and an east London GP and huge Here we’ll tell the story of just in Bomber Harris’s command at all — and I was the pilot! enthusiast for the new National one of them. It’s a great story, was very high. “There and then my nerve Health Service, introduced interesting enough that Lenny Those heroic 30 tours could went. I knew I couldn’t go on him to Marxism and Strachan Henry once tried to make it have entitled Strachan to a job — this was the end of me as a became a communist. into a film. Sadly his script — on the ground but instead he pilot! I flew out to sea, dropped Much later in life, he would A Wing and a Prayer — never applied for pilot training. my bomb load and flew back to tell one of his three sons, Chris: made it to the screen. A film A fast learner, Strachan was the airfield.” He would never “Because of the way my life about a black hero was fine, allowed to fly solo after only pilot a bomber again. was to go if I hadn’t discovered but not one about a black com- seven hours’ training. His After the war, most of the Marxism I would have undoubt- munist hero it seems. instructors were less keen on black airmen and airwomen edly ended up in a mental insti- This is the story of Billy his tricks and joyriding and returned to Africa or the Car- tution.” Strachan, a young Jamaican a crash landing in training ibbean, justly proud of the part Strachan’s overriding passion descended from a family of severely damaged his hip, but they had played in the defeat of was his hatred of racism. He slaves. He was one of the very he still qualified as a pilot in the nazis. always described it as a deeply first volunteers arriving in Eng- record time. Some did stay only to find vile philosophy. A more physical land in March 1940, aged 18, just Then came 15 missions as a post-war Britain was not univer- problem was his crushed hip. three months after he had left bomber pilot. He said: “I sup- sally welcoming to those with An air crash early in his school. pose we had the overconfidence darker skin, even war heroes. career had left him with a He had sold his beloved saxo- of youth. We never thought it After the war Strachan served really painful leg. It wasn’t until phone, his bike, indeed all his would happen to us.” In fact one as a liaison officer in the RAF 1952 that it was operated on by possessions to raise the boat raid resulted in a German bullet sorting out racial disturbances. a communist doctor friend in fare to Britain. With £2.10 in in the leg. Defending some of the cases Prague. Even then he would his pocket and a suitcase con- Sergeant Strachan was pro- gave him a taste for law and walk with a noticeable limp taining one change of clothes moted twice more, first to advocacy. for the rest of his life. he arrived in a dank, wet, most flying officer and then flight Once demobbed, he returned Post-war his ambition was to un-Caribbean-like London. lieutenant. Promotion brought to Jamaica for a short while and help get the British out of the After a night in the YMCA he a personal servant, his own tried for various jobs. Racism West Indies and he dedicated went straight to the Air Minis- batman. The man had actually his life to this but he knew he try in Kingsway to try to join up. been batman to King George VI. would need to live and support But this was racist London where Strachan described him as a real himself so he also set about Caribbean advisory committee. he British govern- “No dogs, no blacks” signs were smooth Jeeves type. building a professional career. Along with Fenner Brockway, ment had tried to common in rental premises. “I was a little coloured boy What he actually built was Kay Beauchamp and Tony Gil- ban them from “Nigger” was so common a word from the Caribbean and I a powerful reputation in the bert, he would found the Move- i nt e r n a t ion a l that famous squadron leaders instinctively called him ‘Sir’,” “ world of justice becoming sen- ment for Colonial Freedom (now Ttravel and US even used it to name their dogs. Strachan recalls. ior clerk to the magistrates in Liberation). McCarthyite anti- The RAF guard on duty out- “No, Sir,” the batman hastily A fast learner, courts all over London. He would spend much time communist forces diverted Stra- side the ministry told him to corrected, “It is I who call you He would author several and effort working in this and chan and Smith’s plane to take shove off, in far from respect- ‘Sir’.” Strachan was definitive legal guides on sub- other broad organisations fight- them to jail in New York. ful terms. A sergeant came by Strachan would become a leg- jects from drink driving to ing racism. Strachan recalled that “ironi- and told Strachan, who had end among the RAF aircrew. He adoption. This work across the world cally, I could see the Statue of come nearly 5,000 miles to join was famous for his avoidance of allowed to fly Alongside his professional made him many friends and Liberty through the bars of my the fight against Hitler, that German fighters. reputation he earned an equally political allies but some serious cell window.” This illegal arrest he and his sort should go back “The trick,” he explained, solo after only powerful position as a leader enemies too. In the red-baiting sparked a major diplomatic where they came from and join “was to wait until the enemy of the anti-imperialist strug- height of the late 1940s and incident and it took a huge up there. was right on your tail and, at gle, particularly all across the early 1950s Strachan was fly- campaign led by British Labour Finally a young officer came the last minute, cut the engine, seven hours’ Caribbean. ing to Jamaica with Ferdinand MPs like Maurice Orbach to free by. He told Strachan he was sending your lumbering bomber In the Communist Party Smith, the Jamaican and US the pair. educated and knew precisely into a dive, letting the fighter training (CPGB) Strachan became a communist trade union leader. Back in London wherever where Jamaica was. It was in overshoot harmlessly above.” leading worker on the party’s Strachan and his wife Joyce morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline features Saturday/Sunday @m_star_online March 31-April 1 2018 13 other bloody immigrant’

later becoming the head of Strachan finished his speech Pic: The Strachan Family equal opportunities. Carter was to the packed meeting with a offered an MBE for services to final tribute to Cheddi Jagan. education but refused to accept In reality that tribute will the award. serve us well as a lasting epi- In 1947 Strachan’s attended taph to Strachan and the many the Caribbean Labour Congress other comrades who, after play- (CLC) in Trinidad. The CLC was ing their part in defeating Hit- an organisation uniting all the ler, knew there was another people of the British-controlled just as important battle to win. Caribbean and in fact dated “We passionately believed back to the 1920s. that the abolition of exploita- He returned to London hav- tion of man by man, oppres- ing agreed to set up a branch sion and human degradation in the capital of the empire and then a fair distribution of — the heart of the web of evil social wealth could be achieved and exploitation that was the not simply by superficial meas- British empire. ures, but through a deep-going Strachan was elected secre- transformation of the existing tary of the London branch that socio-economic order. represented in London all the “We instilled these ideas British-controlled Caribbean in our minds. They served to territories fighting for national inspire the imagination of our independence. Under Strachan’s people. We were internation- leadership the CLC became a alists. Ours was a global and leading anti-imperialist organi- dialectical outlook that linked sation. our own many-sided concerns Strachan’s political circle to the multifaceted struggles included Britain’s first two and trends taking place glo- black peers, Learie Constantine bally. and David Pitt. Others he met “We were certainly not with and advised in his London passive observers but active home included his long-term participants in various events comrade, Forbes Burnham from and actions. We were workers, Guyana, Michael Manley from thinkers, internationalists and Jamaica, Errol Barrow from Bar- socialists.” bados and Jack Keishall from Grenada. e never lost his Strachan worked closely with political skill Granticy Adams, president of and his ability the Barbados Labour Party; to attract signif- Vere Bird, president of the Anti- Hicant political gua Labour Party and Robert allies. Towards Bradshaw of St Kitts and Nevis. the end of his life, Strachan, A key figure in these strug- who had always loved horse gles was Richard Hart, the riding, played a key role in secretary of the CLC, who founding the Disabled Riders was based in Jamaica and who Association. worked closely with Strachan Skilfully Strachan took the and his many London-based vice-president role but left the comrades. more prestigious position of Just a year before his death in president to Anne, the Prin- 1998 Strachan spoke at a memo- cess Royal. rial meeting for Cheddi Jagan. Strachan concluded his His speech is a masterly sum- remarks at the Cheddi Jagan ming up of the fight for free- meeting by declaring he dom in the Caribbean. Sadly it believed Jagan was the great- is far too big a story to tell here. est Caribbean political figure of his era. That may be true, but no single man or woman deserves the praise alone. It takes many people, and in the still to be won battle for a free Caribbean, Strachan and “ a hundred other comrades also set up home, the flat or house latest issue together. Carter from Port-of-Spain, home was the scene of many deserve a place of honour as would become a both a wel- Strachan went on to intro- Trinidad. an early discussion of the car- Because of the heroes of that struggle. come refuge and a hotbed of duce Chandisingh to his In 1954 Carter came to Lon- nival — now Britain’s biggest Strachan finished his work- political activity for all sorts of friends, Cheddi and Janet Jagan, don as a student. He moved in anti-racist cultural event. ing life as he started it, flying Caribbean and other colonial leader and general secretary of with the Strachans and soon In 1963, on Strachan’s advice way my life was high in the battle to liberate radicals, communists and free- the People’s Progressive Party joined the Young Communist Cheddi Jagan invited Carter the workers of the world. It is dom fighters. of Guyana. Chandisingh would League (YCL). to come and work with the to go if I hadn’t a battle we have still to win. In 1952 Strachan launched become a Guyana minister and Carter’s cousin, Claudia People’s Progressive Party in So when you are looking one of the first left-wing news- eventually Guyanese ambassa- Jones, was the communist Guyana. discovered at those TV and newspaper papers for Caribbean people liv- dor to the Soviet Union. famed for founding the Not- Carter spent three years tributes to the part the RAF ing in Britain. Strachan envis- This is not the place to tell ting Hill Carnival in 1958, in developing the country’s played over its 100-year his- aged his Caribbean News as a the detailed story of Guyana’s the aftermath of the Notting outstanding education pro- Marxism I would tory in places like Korea, tool to combat the right-wing long and troubled fight to Hill riots of that year. gramme. Aden, the Falklands, the Gulf, West Indian immigrant paper throw off British imperialism’s Strachan had seen the Not- When he returned to London have undoubtedly Afghanistan, Kosovo, Iraq and the Gleaner. yoke but suffice to say much of ting Hill riots for himself. Carter would play a major part 100 other squalid imperialist Ranji Chandisingh, another the planning was carried out in Indeed, on one occasion he in developing progressive edu- adventures, just remember communist, joined Strachan as any one of Strachan’s humble had averted much of the vio- cation policies. ended up in a there were other sorts of editor. The pair would spend front rooms. lence by encouraging young He joined the Inner London heroes too who played their many an evening together dis- One comrade to whom Stra- West Indians not to respond to Education Authority (ILEA) as a mental institution parts in far more decent and cussing politics or putting the chan rented a room was Trevor racist provocation. Strachan’s senior education liaison officer, honourable battles. Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk Saturday/Sunday morningstaronline 14 March 31-April 1 2018 info | entertainment @m_star_online

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TV and Radio Weekly Preview with Amy Smith What to miss Saturday: Ant and Film Wednesday Entertainment Dec’s Saturday Night My Dad, the Peace Deal and Takeaway, 7pm ITV Sunday Me, 9pm BBC1 Tuesday In the event that you read other newspapers Selma, 11pm BBC2 Comedian Patrick Kielty Cunk on Britain, 10pm BBC2 dives into his own personal than the Morning Star Philomena Cunk was a This film is not perfect, the history to explore the you will be definite highlight on rousing music as white peo- Troubles in Northern fully aware Charlie Brooker’s Weekly ple finally realise that rac- Ireland – his father was that Ant Wipe. Here, Diane Morgan ism exists is truly annoying, killed by paramilitary McPartlin stays in character as Cunk, however, the intimate scenes gunmen in 1988. Kielty’s has headed blows through British where Martin Luther King focus is on just how success- back to history, asking awkward confronts his fears combine ful the peace process has rehab, questions of experts and brilliantly with the brutality been. leaving best of the scenes in Selma. satirising the classic history mate and presenting documentary format. Drama partner Declan Donnelly Documentary Friday (pictured) to front this ghastly show on his own. Saturday Have I Got News for You, Will he manage it? Can Tuesday Moonraker, 2.30pm BBC 9.30pm BBC1 the audience cope The Abortion car Journey, Jeremy Paxman steps up to Radio 4 without their banter? Is the middle chair for the this worth staying in for 1.30pm BBC World Service Toby Stephens steps into an latest series of the news on a Saturday night? Women from Texas explain unseen sharp suit for this how they manage their quiz that can be both funny Yes, yes and no. dramatisation that stays and teeth-clenchingly health in a state with one of faithful to Ian Fleming’s the most restrictive annoying. original text. Yesterday’s sudoku abortion rights in the US. Saturday Monday contorting talents. This Sport Hamlet, 9pm BBC2 Tuesday Kiss Me First, 10pm three-hour modern-dress The Long View, 9am BBC Watching Andrew Scott production was fi lmed Channel 4 Wednesday Radio 4 is always fascinating, his during its acclaimed run I grew up with the brazen Commonwealth Games, sorrowful face roams at the Almeida theatre It’s difficult to take a breath teen series Skins so have 12.15am BBC1 between delicate emotion in London. Purists may without another Donald high hopes for co-creator Of course the Common- and overblown perform- be pleasantly surprised Trump drama erupting so Bryan Elsley’s new offering wealth Games is a bizarre ance. Here, the Sherlock by how CCTV and roll- this slow news look at the that sees two unlikely notion but I’m all for watch- baddie takes on Ham- ing news bulletins fi t so US administration is wel- friends find solace within a ing more sports, especially let, a role that couldn’t snugly into Shakespear- come, comparing Trump’s virtual reality game. Action when the Brownlee broth- be better suited for his ean storytelling. trade plans to the so-called will actually flip between ers are competing in the “founding fathers.” real and animated worlds. triathalon.

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Arts ahead Attila the Stockbroker on the road diary Barnstorming all over with a footy break at the oasis of Wrexham FC

UST surfaced to write this namuse and recorders which tre forward was Chris Holroyd, harbourside pub in my home week’s column after a feature so strongly in the sound who started 16 matches for us town of Southwick, and as wonderful band gig last of our band. in League One 10 years ago as an experiment we performed Jnight at the Dublin Cas- Some representatives of the a central striker without ever totally acoustic — as, of course, tle in Camden, the fi rst more traditional end of the remotely looking like putting we’d always have had to do back in London with my brand new early music community turned the ball in the net. in 1649. “1649” Barnstormer. up, and sadly, soon were gone, He played exactly as I remem- It was a resounding success Word is getting around about hands over ears. “It’s too loud!” bered, didn’t have a shot and I and means that, upon request, the fact that we’re moving in That’s why it’s called Renais- was subsequently astonished the more fragile end of the early STAFFORD/TOURING LONDON MUSICAL uncharted territory — mixing sancecore, folks. to learn that he is Wrexham’s music and folk scene will be able COMEDY Caroline, Or Change early music and punk with songs But we have a solution. Read top scorer. to enjoy what we do in comfort. and tunes based around the time on… Grumpy Old Women to the Hampstead Theatre It didn’t matter though: they Although the bombarde and Rescue of the Levellers, Diggers, Ranters The next day, last Saturday, won 1-0. I really hope they make rauschpfeife will still cause a Eton Avenue, NW3 and other radical visionaries of we were playing in Wrexham it back into the League from the bit of consternation, I fear. Gatehouse Theatre Until April 21 the English revolution. and that afternoon I took the Conference this season and that Robb Johnson, Steve White (of Eastgate Street Our substantial audience opportunity to visit the Race- their Kop, currently a derelict, Protest Family fame) and Lawrie March 31 included a fully kitted out course Ground for the local empty wasteland covering a and the Volunteers served up Fed up with fl ogging their Roundhead re-enactor soldier, team’s match with Maidstone quarter of the ground, is soon fi ne sets too and a good wedge guts out and always having an expert on John Milton and United. restored to its former glory. was raised for forthcoming to be in charge, the Grumpy Andrew Marvell’s poetry and Wrexham and Brighton fans The gig in the evening was at battles in our newly marginal Old Women — Jenny Eclair, a bloke who’s written a book have a fi rm bond, the result of Saith Seren, the local pub of the East Worthing and Shoreham Dillie Keane and Lizzie Roper about the Commonwealth era our shared support for each organisers, fan group Partisans constituency. — have put their knobbly of 1649-1660. Plus, of course, other during long battles against CPD Wrecsam. Like the ground Tonight, the full-on Barn- old feet up in retirement, the usual wide mix of poetry profi teering bastards who nearly it is community-owned and is stormer is at my other local, free at last to practise their fans, punk rockers and activists destroyed our clubs. a hub of the local Welsh lan- the Duke of Wellington in extreme colouring-in, ukelele including, I’m happy to say, four They are now community guage community. Hospitality Shoreham — fi ttingly, a few orchestra and novelty fudge- old anti-fascist comrades from owned, and it was heartwarm- and reception were wonderful, hundred yards form where making. But with the world the gig and street battles of ing to walk round with Marc, beer amazing. Diolch! Charles II escaped after the the ‘80s. Ancient and modern one of the directors, and feel the And from there to Lancaster, Battle of Worcester in 1651, the in a bigger mess than ever With Donald Trump in the indeed. bond between the fans which a packed gig in a tiny pub, and a fact that gave me the idea for before, is there anything White House and protest in That gig was the fi fth in a comes from a successful fi ght to long journey back home through the new songs in the fi rst place. that can tempt them off their the air, this 2003 musical week: we started last Friday save your club – a feeling that the night (huge thanks to sound Loads more gigs coming backsides to unleash their by Tony Kushner and the at Centrala in Birmingham, a we at Brighton know only too man and driver Dave for his ster- round the country: hope to see superpowers and once more composer Jeanine Tesori gets lovely community space hosting well. ling eff orts on our behalf!) for you somewhere soon. come to the rescue? Ninety a timely revival. Inspired in all kinds of events with beau- When the game began I dis- the following day’s gig. minutes of “full-fat, batteries part by Kushner’s own boy- tiful acoustics for the ancient covered that we had something It was a Labour Party fund- ■ Attila the Stockbroker www.twit- included” comedy promised. hood, it’s an almost entirely sounds of the crumhorn, cor- else in common, since their cen- raiser at the lovely Schooner ter.com/atilatstokbroka Touring until end of June. sung-through story of race, grumpyoldwomenlive.com religion and the grotesque economics of exploitation starring the great Sharon ■ THEATRE REVIEW LONDON DANCE D Clarke (pictured). Recom- mended. Balletboyz: 14 Days hampsteadtheatre.com Sadler’s Wells Rosebery Avenue, EC1 Shouldering the burden of history April 26-28 NEWCASTLE EXHIBITION Sean Scully MAYER WAKEFIELD recommends a resonant Until May 28 Hatton Gallery play on the black British experience, then and now King’s Road Black Men Walking Laing Art Gallery actors appear to somewhat Royal Court, London New Bridge Street over-exaggerate their char- ★★★★✩ This major retrospective acterisations but, as the of work by Sean Scully, show unfolds, you begin to renowned as the master of see real complexity in their POET, rapper, beatboxer and post-minimalist abstraction, eccentricities. Full of both now theatre-maker — Testa- revisits two seminal sites wisdom and fear, Huggins ment is a man with many in his career — Newcastle, is particularly impressive strings to his bow. where he studed painting at as the ageing leader. Encouraged by Eclipse the university, and Liverpool. All have very diff erent Theatre’s artistic director On show in two galleries are experiences of life in Britain Dawn Walton — also the works demonstrating the and, as Testament leads us After its premiere in the shrewdly adept director of confi dence of Scully’s earlier on a walking tour through autumn of last year, Bal- this show — and inspired by works and his continued those experiences, he man- letBoyz return with this David Olusoga’s 2015 televi- fascination with stripes and ages to craft a work of unas- unique project — four pieces sion series Black and British: the spaces in between. suming depth which speaks created in just 14 days with hattongallery.org.uk/laingart- A Forgotten History, he set both for, and to, multiple choreographers Javier de gallery.org.uk about writing Black Men generations. He conjures Frutos, Craig Revel Horwood, Walking by climbing the a powerful rhythm which Ivan Perez and Christopher Peaks alongside a group of ebbs and fl ows like the Peaks Wheeldon. With music by black men who climb them themselves, switching from Scott Walker, Charlotte Hard- monthly to catch a break Kenton Pic: Tristram prose to poetry to rap with ing, Joby Talbot and Keaton from their very diff erent and current racial injustice ble, rapper Ayeesha (Dorcas an assured fl uidity. Henson, they’ve created a daily lives. in Britain. Sebuyange) describes them. Early on, a weary Thomas series of works playing with Exploring centuries of But it’s also a portrayal But Matthew (Trevor Laird), wonders whether history’s the concept of balance and black British history from of hope and perseverance, Richard (Tonderai Munyevu) only purpose is perhaps “to imbalance, described by John Moore, a Freeman of located deep within the and Thomas (Tyrone Hug- let you know when you’re one critic as “a paradox of the City of York in Tudor personal experiences of four gins) have a lot more to consigned to it.” Black Men muscular impact and weight- times, to one of Britain’s superbly crafted characters. them than that, as she soon Walking proves there is far less fl ight” never been seen fi rst black footballers Paul “Posh boy, trekkie and discovers as they bond over more to it than that. before on stage. Canoville, the play is a stark old-man weirdo,” is how the hip-hop and history. 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F THERE’S a volume cartoons are by the Guardian’s vagaries and everyday idiocies. missing from the annals Nicola Jennings, Bluelou — The encyclopedic format has of British humour, it cer- known to Morning Star read- the benefit of each new page tainly is the new book ers and presently of Tribune offering the unexpected and IThe Inking Woman. — and Martha Richler of the Marcia’s Mihotich’s delight- About time too, given Jewish Chronicle. Regrettably, ful design has clarity and that it’s been nine decades the field is still dominated elegance. since women over the age of almost exclusively by white It’s an instructive and 21 won the right to vote. middle-aged men and that’s hugely entertaining work — Its inspiration came from something that has to change hats off to Nicola Streeten and its authors Nicola Streeten in the future. Cath Tate. and Cath Tate who organised As Toni Morrison has an exhibition with the same pointed out: “All good art is ■ The Inking Woman: 250 Years of Angela Martin title at the Cartoon Museum political, there is none that Women Cartoon and Comic Artists in London in 2016. The reali- isn’t,” and so, ultimately, are in Britain by Nicola Streeten and sation that a celebratory the works in Inking Woman — Cath Tate is published by Myriad Cath-Jackson anthology marking 250 years wide ranging and whimsical Editions, price £19.99. MICHAL BONCZA of women’s cartooning should satires on social and human Jo Nesbitt Grizelda be put together was a natural progression. This compilation of single- panel gags and traditional strips are bundled together to provide a full appreciation of the abundance and variety of styles. Here is work from the daring Mary Darly of the 18th century and the pioneering Victorian Marie Duval through to Suffragettes Mary Lowndes, Louisa Thomson-Price and Dora Meeson Coates. And contemporary car- toonists such as Riana Dun- can, Kathryn Lamb, Chris- tine Roche, Paula Youens, Cath Jackson, Angela Martin, Grizelda and Lee Kennedy all get a look in. The index, running to well over 300 names, disabuses the perception that women cartoonists are few and far between and around a third of them are included in the book. Space and time constraints mean that some are absent because they were uncom- fortable with gender-defined criteria or the selection proc- Christine Roche ess itself. Kathryn Lamb

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■ OUR PAPER ■ BREXIT Women’s Day ‘Transition’ is an excuse edition off ered for Tories endless failure a rare space THE media is heralding a trium- workers. And as the fi shermen phant Brexit “transition” agree- point out, the EU can squeeze I THANK the Star for its to then demand of us that ment. It is, of course, nothing of British fi shing out of existence, International Women’s Day we “contribute to society” by the kind. There’s no transition, and the government won’t be edition (March 8). The issue bringing home a salary. As simply a delay. Britain will stay able to lift a fi nger. has given space for women’s though, if we don’t, we’re not inside the EU until December The battle for Brexit is not real concerns to be voiced. pulling our weight. 2020, paying out billions, sub- over. The forces opposing us I support women not Half of the work women ject to its laws, but without any have more than two years to because I am one, but do is unwaged, and in terms say in its decisions. turn delay into the denial of because women’s issues have of importance, is more What has Theresa May democracy that they seek. hitherto been buried. It’s a necessary than the waged negotiated in return? The Expect more and more matter of justice even more upholding of the present EU’s agreement that during “reports” from corporate inter- than gender. unbalanced economic the transition we can negoti- ests seeking to maintain the TUC general secretary edifi ce with its continuous ate trade deals. status quo. Expect more and Frances O’Grady is reported churning out of unnecessary As if a country leaving the more moans from parts of the in that edition of the Star items. EU did not have a natural right civil service that everything as saying: “There’s so much It also, as Ms O’Grady sug- to make international arrange- is really too complicated and pressure on women to look gests, puts inhuman extra ments to come into eff ect when it they need more time. Expect good, be the perfect wife, pressure on women. leaves. Thanks for nothing. more delaying tactics from our the perfect mother and to These facts must It’s as close as PROMISES UNKEPT: David Cameron unrepresentative Parliament. bring home a salary. be aired in the makes no dif- The people must speak out, “Men are not judged in the name of justice. ference to the But that prize is getting invoked the next day. Yet come the campaigns left dormant same way and the expecta- I know of only “vassal state” further away, not closer. And June 2018 we will be even more after the referendum will have tions and aspirations we ask two publica- that some in on March 27 May hinted that than two years away from leav- to be reactivated. That’s becom- of them are much lower.” tions which do government timetables for leaving the EU’s ing EU control over our bor- ing more and more urgent. Seeing that women’s this, and one had been say- customs union “might need to ders, our laws, our economy. The outcry against the tran- unwaged work, ie the work of them is the HAVE YOUR SAY ing was unac- be revised” — in other words, Employers can continue to sition agreement has begun, associated with motherhood, Morning Star. ceptable. No extended. freely import cheap labour in the fi shing communities. It (up to 300 words) to family creation and commu- MARYLIN Write matter, they When we voted to leave in until December 2020 — a fur- must spread across the whole nity cohesiveness, has always WARBIS [email protected] say now, keep June 2016 it was in the expecta- ther 21 months — so that they of Britain. or by post: 52 Beachy Rd, upheld society, it’s a bit rich London E3 London E3 2NS your “eyes on the tion — Cameron even promised can put off having to invest in WILL PODMORE prize.” it — that Article 50 would be technology and training British London E12

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■ TRADE UNIONS TUC could be loud in Corbyn’s cause AS A fellow lifelong union Jeremy Corbyn’s TUC ros- activist and Labour party mem- trum condemnation of “the ber, I fully support Aslef leader 1980s time warp of neoliberal Mick Whelan’s article (M Star dogma.” March 13). The TUC itself could be We must maintain the his- explaining, in its 150th anni- toric link in the Labour move- versary, that the exploitation ment. and casualisation of today’s Mick correctly referred to workforce is the result of neo- those years when the “New liberalism since the 1980s. That Labour” apparatchiks were should be explained much embarrassed by the history and more clearly. values of the trade union move- This 150th anniversary is the ment. In my opinion, “New opportunity for the trade union Labour” basically accepted the movement to learn the lessons Thatcherite neoliberal society. from its history. At the TUC Congress, Jer- That should include the emy Corbyn has made clear internal divisions created by his passionate support for the a TUC affi liate, the EETPU, labour movement as a force for and how that weakened TUC good in society. That should be unity and helped the Thatcher supported by all Labour Party government to defeat the trade members, no disaffi liation. union movement. The trade unions however, STEVIE STEVENSON could more strongly support Swansea

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Was mural RED HISTORY: Mardy Neolibs won’t (Maerdy) in 1910 a copy of earlier back down – nor artwork? THE mural that has caused so much furore, must socialists and is said to be “obvi- ously” anti-semitic, may have drawn inspiration JUST as ordinary Labour Party One Labour backbencher, has been a far more active from a painting I dimly members like me were start- who predictably didn’t wish to and consistent critic of Putin recall from my childhood ing to think that the days were be named, was recently quoted and his regime, and of racism (apologies to the mural over of the scurrilous attempts in the Guardian as saying (refer- and anti-semitism, than either Communists were strong in Wales artist if this is not so). by the twitching corpse of ring to Corbyn): “Putin’s con- the Tories, or those Labour MPs As I recall, it was a Labour’s disintegrating neo- stant and shameful apologist and grandees who are so deter- A STRIKING tribute that the Communist can- painting depicting the six liberal wing to destroy Jeremy might just as well stand aside mined to wreck his reputation. ■ to the work of didate was already consid- most wealthy bankers, Corbyn’s principled leadership, and let the Russian ambassador Tory prime minister John Communist councillors ered to have won. But the families and industrial- out they crawl yet again – this write the speeches and brief the Major used to call the equiva- was reported in the Daily people of Pontymoel were ists at the turn of the time seizing upon the Russian media himself.” lent MPs in his own party “bas- Worker of April 1 1938. outraged that an attempt 20th century, symbolising spy outrage and the concocted And on the orchestrated anti- tards,” I think I’d better keep to Miners’ lodges in the to “oust” communist how they control the lives anti-semitic non-story to under- semitism feeding frenzy, failed myself the term that I privately Mardy and Ferndale area Mavis Llewelyn from her of everyone else. mine Corbyn at every conceiv- Labour leadership candidate use for the equivalent individu- had formally asked the seat was to be made. Two were Jewish (Roth- able opportunity. David Miliband tweeted, “It’s als in the Labour Party. Labour Party not to stand Meanwhile, in Stepney, schild and Warburg) but These people parade every terrible that the leadership These people are a disgrace to in elections soon due. Communist councillor four were not (Rockefel- available media studio off ering has brought our party into such our party, we should be censor- One of the seats had Phil Piratin drew atten- ler, J P Morgan, Carnegie their rent-a-mouth bile to any gross disrepute. At least now ing and/or suspending any mem- been held by a Com- tion to the fact that the and occultist Aleister unprincipled journalist who’ll the veil of unctuous denials, bers, including MPs, who come munist who had had to police were “not suf- Crowley). Anyone claim- give them the time of day. Or is whitewash reports, diversion- out with such fraudulent state- leave the area and miners fi ciently competent to ing that all six are it that a biased media deliber- ary attacks, has been breached.” ments and slurs, and ordinary were confi dent that the control fascists.” “obviously Jewish,” are ately searches these people out “Unctuous,” really? As a per- members – the many – have had replacement candidate, This seemingly themselves guilty of anti- to create yet another hysterical ceptive psychoanalyst might have enough and aren’t going to put Will Picton, would “carry “compelled” them to semitic stereotyping. anti-Corbyn feeding-frenzy? said: “Talk about projection!” up with it any longer. on the good work.” ban working-class events The fact that the I’ve never quite worked out Such absurd statements DR RICHARD HOUSE Labour had rejected the such as May Day demos, mural artist claims which it is; it’s probably both. ignore the fact that Corbyn Stroud appeal and was to contest which had been held for that these six depic- the ward, an attitude that 50 years with the “utmost tions are of early 20th had little support amongst order and discipline.” century tycoons (largely miners and their families. unknown to most peo- ■ RELIGION In Pentre, Labour offi - You can ple today) strengthens cially asked for Communist read editions of my presumption that it Belief is not compatible with dialectic support against a supposed the Daily Worker is a copy of something Independent, usually a (1930-45) painted much earlier. I WELCOME Bryn Rowland’s I recommend the Com- Communist politics is cover name for Tories. and Morning Star (200 0-today) Are there any art his- letter (M Star March 16) on munist Party of Britain’s based on an understanding In the very next ward, , online at torians among your read- the somewhat mixed history recently produced booklet of the role of the state. Labour was opposing mstar.link/DWMSarchive ers who have a similar of Christianity. on the subject. Religious believers would the sitting Communist Ten days’ access costs childhood memory? Communist philosophy is Communist economics is not want to join communist councillor, Jack Davis. just JOHN COX based on dialectical materi- based on the law of value, parties or organisations. Whilst in Tylerstown, £5.99 and a Pontypool alism which has no place for also known as the labour IVOR KENNA locals were so supportive year is £72 the supernatural. theory of value. 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Racing Guide with Farringdon ■ KEMPTON, HAYDOCK PARK AND RACECOURSE Have a Sharp Defence this afternoon at Musselburgh

As the build-up to the Grand National continues, there is CLOSE GROUP: Riders still plenty of racing to keep track of across the country at Musselburgh in 2015

ESPITE being in that He should also get a really It’s a big day on the all- seemingly fallow nice tow into the race with sev- weather at Kempton as well period between eral runners that like to be at with the always competitive Dthe Cheltenham the sharp end and he looks a Roseberry Handicap over a Festival and the solid each-way play and sport- mile and three furlongs at Grand National there is some ing nap. 4.20 in which the unexposed decent racing this afternoon The big race of the day at the Contrast should be able to take and the value wager could well Edinburgh track is the Gold care of his more experienced be Sharp Defence in the opening Cup over one-and-three-quar- rivals. seven furlong handicap at Mus- ter-miles at 3.35 and with more Judged on his previous runs selburgh at 1.50. rain forecast this could turn over a mile he could well Nicely drawn in stall into a real slugfest down the defy his breeding [by Dutch number four, the four-year-old long home stretch, especially Art] and excel over this extra has tumbled in the handicap, as a number of these like to be yardage in a fast run race fol- but on his best form from 12 at the front of affairs of course lowing his success over this months ago he looks vastly headed by the front-running distance in a relatively slowly over priced at around the 16/1 Brandon Castle. run race at Lingfield in a small mark. Such a make-up could suit field. the likes of the 10-year-old The Matchbook Casino WEEKEND TIPS Clever Cookie and our selec- Handicap (1m2f) at 3.45 has tion, the lightly raced Time to a relatively small field, but a Study. few improving sorts and I think Farringdon’s Doubles Mark Johnston’s charge acts this could be the season where Saturday on soft ground, has a really we see a big step forward from Stanley SHARP DEFENCE good record going to post fresh . Musselburgh 1:50 (nap) and I suspect we have yet to see The Richard Hughes-trained the best of him having just the course and distance winner STANLEY 11th start of his career. looked green on more than Kempton 3:45 I fancy he could make up the one occasion last year and Sunday into a group horse by the end of is quite probably a whole lot BROWNVILLE the season and he gets the vote better than his current handi- Ffos Las 4:45 (nap) over Carbon Dating and the cap mark of 80 and this looks progressive American Gigolo. a really good starting point for STEEL NATIVE The big sprint at 2.25, the him this year and he has the Ffos Las 2:25 Borderlescott Stakes, can go top-weight Time to Blossom to Alpha Delphini who was in to beat. Houseman’s Choice glorious form at the back end On the national hunt front, Saturday of last season. veteran Killala Quay is set to out- EMENEM If the son of Captain Gerrard run his price at Haydock Park Kempton 4:20 carries on where he left off last 3.15, while the stayers event at season, a ready win over course 4.25 could go the way of Condaw Sunday and distance on very similar Native who has been running SHELNEVERWALKALONE ground, then he should be very consistently well all season, is Southwell 5:20 hard to beat and looks sure to still improving and won’t mind start favourite here. any more rain.

■ MEN’S RUGBY LEAGUE McNamara upbeat despite another Dragons defeat by Our Sports Desk points from the boot of Robert sweeping everything out and of players in pre-season follow- “We knew that they would stomach bug had gone through Lui, completed an easy victory starting again, we’re not too ing the World Cup is affecting come over here and challenge the camp this week but hinted for Salford and left Catalans at far away from turning things his side. our middles so I’m really at changes to his line-up for STEvE MCNAMARA is con- risk of being cut adrift at the around. He added: “We’re implement- pleased that our pack stood Easter Monday’s trip to Leeds. vinced Catalans Dragons are bottom of the table. “In situations like this, it’s ing change in lots of different up to the challenge. He said: “We had four players not far off an upturn in for- McNamara said: “Credit easy to think that we’re a long areas on and off the field, we’ve “Josh Wood was really good, laid up earlier in the week, so tunes but bemoaned his side’s to Salford, they proved to be way away from getting some not had a lot of time on the he’s done a great job for us at for us to come out with a win simple errors in yesterday’s tough to beat but we beat our- points on the board but I genu- field this year but we’re work- nine and as a seven. He’s been in that game was a big result 32-16 defeat at Salford. selves. inely think we’re not. ing hard to build our combina- able to play in both positions for us. McNamara’s position will “Penalties and handling “We have to look at our- tions and put ourselves on the to a high level, “With the short turnaround come under increasing scrutiny errors are killing us at the selves, the game is too diffi- right path.” “I’m really confident in his on Monday we may make after the Dragons crashed to a moment. We’re not in the best cult without giving ourselves Salford clinched their third ability. He’s got the ability to changes and though they will seventh defeat in their opening run of form at the moment but further challenges like giving successive home win leaving get on the end of breaks and want to play on Monday, we eight Super League matches. we’re suffering from some basic away penalties straight after coach Ian Watson to reflect on offloads and he did that really may take the decision out of Tries from Jake Bibby, Niall errors like catching and pass- tries.” a job well done. well for us.” their hands and rest them Evalds, Greg Johnson, Josh ing the ball. The former Bradford and He said: “It was a really good, Watson was particularly ahead of Warrington next Jones and Kris Welham, plus 12 “We know it’s not a case of England coach believes a lack professional performance. pleased with the victory given a week.” Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk Saturday/Sunday morningstaronline 22 March 31-April 1 2018 sport @m_star_online

SPORT ON TV Saturday ■ BASEBALL: MLB, Tampa Bay Rays v Boston Red Sox — BT Sport 1 11pm; Los Angeles Dodgers v San Francisco Giants — BT Sport 1 2am (Sun). ■ BASKETBALL: NBA, Boston Celt- ics v Toronto Raptors — BT Sport 2 12.30am (Sun). ■ CRICKET: Second day of the fourth Test from Johannesburg, South Africa v Australia — Sky Sports Cricket 8.55am; third day of the second Test from Christchurch, New Zealand v England — Sky Sports Main Event, Sky Sports Cricket 11pm. ■ FOOTBALL: Premier League, Crystal Palace v Liverpool — Sky Sports Main Event, Sky Sports Premier League 11.30am, Everton v Manchester City — BT Sport 1 5pm; Ladbrokes Premiership, Motherwell v Rangers — BT Sport 1 12pm; Serie A, Bologna v Roma — BT Sport 2 11.15am, eir Sport 1 11.25am, Sassuolo v Napoli — eir Sport 1 1.55pm, Juventus v AC Milan — BT Sport 2 7.30pm; Ligue 1, BETTER DAYS: Clapton FC (red) take on FC Dijon v Marseille — eir Sport 1 3.55pm; Romania at the Old Spotted Dog in 2014 Bundesliga, Bayern Munich v Borus- sia Dortmund — BT Sport 2 5pm; Sky Pic: CreativeCommons/ScaffoldRobin Bet League Two, Luton v Barnet — Sky Sports Main Event 5.30pm. ■ MEN’S FOOTBALL COMMENT ■ GOLF: PGA Tour, Houston Open — Sky Sports Golf 7pm, Sky Sports Main Event 7.40pm; LPGA Tour, ANA Inspiration from California — Sky Sports Golf 11pm. ■ RACING: From Musselburgh — ITV4 1.30pm. ■ RUGBY UNION: European Cham- An SOS call to save pions Cup, Munster v Toulon — Sky Sports Action 2.30pm, Sky Sports Main Event 2.55pm; European Chal- lenge Cup, Edinburgh v Cardiff — Sky Sports Action 5.30pm. ■ TENNIS: WTA Tennis, Miami Open — BT Sport/ESPN 6pm. ■ WINTER SPORTS: Curling World the Old Spotted Dog Championships from Las Vegas — Eurosport 1 9.30pm. Sunday CLAPTON FC NEWS reports on the ongoing plight of the Essex ■ BASEBALL: MLB, New York Mets v St Louis Cardinals — BT Sport/ESPN 6pm, Los Angeles Dodgers v San Senior League club as fans continue to boycott home games in Francisco Giants — BT Sport/ESPN 1.30am (Mon) ■ BASKETBALL: NBA, San Antonio order to save their stadium, London’s oldest football ground Spurs v Houston Rockets — BT Sport 2 8.30pm. he Old Spotted Dog Leisure Limited, the charity the voluntary liquidation proc- off the Roll of Solicitors in lets them build. ■ CRICKET: Third day of the fourth has taken a further that leases the Old Spotted Dog ess and a High Court injunction November 2012 for multiple Boycotting fans Test from Johannesburg, South step up the endan- from the freeholder. was obtained. cases of dishonesty and mis- Relations between Clap- Africa v Australia — Sky Sports Cricket gered species list. Mr McBean had already post- On July 19 2017, a High Court representation. ton’s fans and Mr McBean had 8.55am, Sky Sports Main Event 9am; T The situation at poned the meeting twice, on judge directed that the Charity Asset of Community Value already deteriorated over the fourth day of the second Test from London’s oldest football ground December 22 2016 and January Commission should be involved A welcome complication is years. Christchurch, New Zealand v England is now at a critical level, with 19 2017. and any liquidation could not that Clapton fans managed Fan groups Friends of Clap- — Sky Sports Main Event, Sky Sports a potentially unprecedented New company set up to be completed until they had to establish the ground as an ton FC, Real Clapton and Clap- Cricket 11pm. instance of a liquidation being replace charity their say. Asset of Community Value in ton Ultras had sponsored the ■ CYCLING: Tour of Flanders — pushed through despite a High Veercourt CIC was listed A long process of waiting for May 2017. club’s kit, volunteered and pro- Eurosport 1 9.15am. Court injunction in place pre- at Companies House just one their report began. This also covers the adjoin- moted the hell out of games, ■ FOOTBALL: Premier League, Arse- cisely to stop that happening. week after the second post- Winding up petition ing garage, which NCLL actu- helping attendances to averages nal v Stoke — Sky Sports Main Event, It could leave Clapton’s his- ponement, on January 26 2017. Unknown to the Charity Sky Sports Premier League 12.30pm, ally owns the freehold on, of nearly 400. toric home in the sole control of Chelsea v Tottenham — Sky Sports Its only listed director was Commission, or the people unlike the rest of the ground However, things hit absolute Main Event, Sky Sports Premier the club’s chief executive Vince Mr McBean. that had obtained the injunc- where it is the leaseholder only. rock bottom last season when Voluntary liquidation League 3.30pm; Bundesliga, Wer- McBean, instead of the charity tion, a winding up petition was Six months’ notice would fans turned up to a midweek der Bremen v Eintracht Frankfurt — which was set up to run it. And attempted presented to the High Court on need to be given to give the game to find admission prices BT Sport 2.30pm, Mainz v Borussia Mr McBean would have much A bid for voluntary liquida- October 6 and their case was local community the opportu- had been raised completely Monchengladbach — BT Sport 1 5pm; more freedom to do what he tion of the charity NCLL was heard and approved by the nity to raise the funds to pur- unannounced. Ligue 1, Lyon v Toulouse — BT Sport likes with it. launched on March 1 2017, the Court in January 2018. chase it before it could be sold Last summer’s liquidation 1 7.45pm. The recap of the story so day before Mr McBean’s sched- Liquidation attempt part to anyone else. bid was the final straw and ■ GOLF: PGA Tour, Houston Open — far reveals why Clapton’s fans’ uled interview with the Charity two This presents a ray of hope Real Clapton members voted Sky Sports Main Event, Sky Sports groups, who are already boy- Commission, seemingly in an This began another liquida- for the future of the ground as to call for a boycott of home Golf 7pm; LPGA Tour, ANA Inspira- cotting home games, feel the effort to transfer the assets to tion — this time involuntary it cannot easily be sold off but games, which was backed by all tion — Sky Sports Golf 11pm. ground is in grave danger if the freshly incorporated Veer- — due to debts to an external in reality the cost is likely to other fan groups, to avoid giv- ■ MOTOR CYCLING: British Superbike this happens… court CIC. creditor who has claimed they be out of reach. ing money to the person who Championship from Donington Park Charity Commission inves- With no charity left for them are owed money. As has been seen recently was attempting to liquidate the — Eurosport 2 3.30pm. tigation to investigate, the Charity Com- The purported creditor is at Dulwich Hamlet, there are charity. ■ RUGBY UNION: European Champi- Mr McBean was due to attend mission meeting was cancelled Taylor Bridge Legal Services likely to be property companies Home attendances have since ons Cup, Clermont Auvergne v Rac- an interview with the Charity and Mr McBean was off the (TBLS), though there are no waiting to swoop on valuable fallen by almost 90 per cent ing 92 — Sky Sports Action 12.30pm, Commission on March 2 2017. hook — briefly. records available to show what London land. with the Ultras’ iconic Scaf- Leinster v Saracens — BT Sport 2 3pm. This was his final opportu- High Court injunction stops the alleged debt is for or even Despite the land being desig- fold stand looking empty and ■ WINTER SPORTS: Curling World nity to answer the Commis- liquidation how much it is supposed to be. nated for sporting use, develop- forlorn, though away crowds Championships from Las Vegas — sion’s serious questions about On April 10 2017, a trustee TBLS is run solely by an ers are often happy to sit on the have kept on growing. Eurosport 1 4.30pm. his conduct and mismanage- of NCLL and a life member of ex-solicitor called Antoinette land and even leave it unused Garage sale ment of Newham Community Clapton FC successfully halted Olivia Taylor who was struck until the council gives in and Mr McBean is rumoured to morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline Saturday/Sunday @m_star_online sport March 31-April 1 2018 23 be keen to sell the freehold on ■ MEN’S BASKETBALL the garage to cover the alleged debt to TBLS and then continue to transfer the lease on the Old Spotted Dog ground itself into his own name, under his Veer- Unarmed Clark’s brother calls on court CIC company. This would allow him to continue as he was without the scrutiny of the Charity Com- mission, creating a new plat- form from which to continue protesters to leave Kings alone operating, bypass regulations and avoid any critical scrutiny and legal action. UNITED STATES: Follwing the death of Stephon, demonstrations have been held outside of the basketball stadium Where we are now That the situation has been by Our Sports Desk shouting. Others on the stage allowed to get to this stage attempted to calm him, with seems to be unprecedented limited success. and exposes failings at sev- HOURS after an emotional Sharpton hugged and con- eral stages — the High Court interruption at his brother’s soled him and told the crowd issued an injunction that halted funeral, Stevante Clark helped not to judge how families the original liquidation, the defuse tension in California’s grieve. Members Voluntary Liquida- capital city by asking protest- “This brother could be any tion (MVL). ers not to block thousands of one of us, so let them express Months later, the same fans from entering a down- and grieve,” Sharpton said. “We High Court allowed the next town NBA arena for a third are proud of them for standing Compulsory Winding-Up Peti- night. up for justice.” tion to proceed to Companies Police in riot gear stood The Kings and their owner Court and appear to have waiting outside the Golden 1 have been supportive of the failed to check the records at Centre as fans wove through Clark family. Companies House which still barricades and fencing Thurs- The team announced plans haven’t been updated to show day to enter for a Sacramento to set up an education fund for a winding up petition, and at Kings-Indiana Pacers game. Stephon Clark’s children and the Insolvency Service who are But protesters never came, a partnership with Black Lives currently failing to act despite heeding calls from Stevante Matter Sacramento to bring being made aware of the prob- Clark and Black Lives Matter “transformational change” lem recently. organisers to avoid the arena. to the city’s black communi- It is understood that the Instead, they blocked rush hour ties. Former Kings player Matt Charity Commission report traffic on nearby downtown Barnes attended the funeral, as into McBean’s mismanagement streets. did Mayor Darrell Steinberg, is now complete and awaiting The March 18 shooting of Ste- who promised to work with publication. However, the phon Clark, 22, by Sacramento Stevante Clark days after he dis- report is yet to be published police officers has sparked near rupted a City Council meeting. despite the severity of what daily protests, with his name The protests have caused could happen if the Charity becoming a rallying cry for disruption, though largely Commission fails to step in. police reform in California peaceful, around the arena, a What happens next and beyond. TENSION RISING: A protester (left) talks with a Sacramento Kings ticket holder on Wednesday night focal point of the city’s revitali- Statutory body after statu- Two officers responding to a sation efforts in a downtown tory body has failed to act so call of someone breaking car onstrators for their restraint young people are standing his dance moves, intelligence that’s struggled economically far. windows shouted that Clark and urged them to follow the up,” he thundered. “They’re and love for his two young sons. and has a heavy homeless pop- Even so, the Insolvency Serv- had a gun before firing 20 bul- lead of the Reverend Martin not being violent, they’re ask- Stevante Clark interrupted ulation. ice, which is now responsible lets at him, but he had only a Luther King Jnr and his advo- ing for you to stop being violent the musical and scriptural Some businesses have been for the liquidation, and the mobile phone. cacy of non-violent protest. to them.” celebration by hugging and shutting down early while com- Charity Commission, which Delivering Stephon Clark’s “I want the folks in Califor- More than 500 people packed kissing the casket, leading the muters have been snarled in has written but not published eulogy on Thursday, the Rev- nia to know that there’s noth- into the church to celebrate Ste- crowd in chanting his brother’s rush hour traffic due to closed its report, remain the last hope erend Al Sharpton praised dem- ing wrong with how these phon Clark’s life, remembering name, pounding his chest and streets during the protests. to stop the destruction of a historic football ground and ensure its assets are used for community good. ■ MEN’S RUGBY SEVENS ■ MEN’S FOOTBALL The Insolvency Service must resolve the issue in conjunction with the Charity Commis- sion, who must publish their Australian captain to miss Russians told to report immediately and follow through by taking the appropri- ate actions that it raises. We are told that Real Clapton Games with fractured skull avoid ‘exotic tea’ will soon put out a call to arms on how you can help, with sup- by Our Sports Desk an alleged “one-punch” assault. the attack, until police arrived. by Our Sports Desk exotic tea,” to avoid smok- porters holding an open meet- Rugby Australia said Stan- The team had earlier been ing shisha and to be wary ing on the future of the Spotted nard was with a group of team- celebrating at a farewell dinner of possibly contaminated Dog on April 11 at 7pm at Durn- Australian rugby sevens cap- mates, along with head coach for Friend, who did not have his THE Russian Football meat from China or South ing Hall, Forest Gate. tain James Stannard has been Andy Friend, at the time of contract renewed by Rugby Aus- Union warned players America. In the meantime, you can ruled out of the Common- the incident. It said Stan- tralia and will leave the team yesterday against drinking It wasn’t immediately contact them on info@clap- wealth Games after nard was struck by a later this year. “exotic tea” or smoking shi- clear what prompted the tonfc.info with any offers of sustaining a frac- man in an unpro- Stannard, 35, played in sha pipes as it tries to avoid tea warning. An Algerian support, suggestions or ques- tured skull after voked attack a Commonwealth Games any doping cases ahead of player was banned after tions. being punched after report- warm-up match on Thursday its home World Cup. a 2015 positive test for Anyone with fond memories by a man out- edly having a in Sydney. The rugby sevens In a guide to help play- cocaine he said he acci- of the Old Spotted Dog’s his- side a fast-food conversation programme at the Common- ers avoid failing drug tests dentally consumed via a tory, or with bright hopes for its r e s t a u r a n t with him wealth Games on the Gold by accident, the RFU says friend’s shisha pipe. future, is encouraged to help. early yesterday outside the Coast in Queensland state is players should be wary of The Russian guide morning. restaurant. from April 13-15. accidentally consuming comes as Fifa investigates HAVE YOUR SAY! ■ This article was first pub- Rugby Aus- Write (up to 300 words) to S e v e r a l Stannard had assumed the banned substances. allegations that positive lished on March 26 at https:// tralia said [email protected] members of captaincy in the absence of the It recommends play- drug tests in Russian claptonfcnews.wordpress. that Stannard or by post: 52 Beachy Rd, the Austral- injured Holland. ers always read the label football in previous years com/2018/03/26/old-spotted-dog- was taken to St London E3 2NS ian men’s sevens “They’re shocked and the on exercise supplements were covered up. Deputy on-the-endangered-species-list- Vincent’s Hospital, team were witness team will have to show again and check online whether Prime Minister Vitaly an-sos-call/ where he is in stable con- to the attack and two of that they are a very resilient they’re contaminated Mutko said last month ■ The Star contacted Mr dition, after being struck by Stannard’s teammates, Lewis team,” Rugby Australia high with banned products. Fifa is investigating cur- McBean for comment and the another man at 3.10am. It said Holland and Ben O’Donnell, performance general manager The RFU also advises rent Russia international time of publishing still await- New South Wales Police have along with Friend, were able Ben Whitaker said of Stan- players “not to consume Ruslan Kambolov. ing response charged a 22-year-old man over to detain the man shortly after nard’s absence. Saturday/Sunday SPORT March 31-April 1 2018 INSIDE: Clark’s brother calls on arena protests to stop

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FROM INJURY WEEKEND FOOTBALL Premier League Crystal Palace Liverpool, 12.30pm Brighton Leicester Manchester United Swansea WITH VINTAGE Newcastle Huddersfi eld Watford Bournemouth West Brom Burnley West Ham Southampton Everton Man City, 5.30pm Arsenal Stoke, 1.30pm* Chelsea Tottenham, 4pm* DISPLAY AT BAT Championship Birmingham City Ipswich Town Hull City Aston Villa, 5.30pm by Our Sports Desk The increasingly adventur- obviously we were in a bit of ing of his dismissal, Southee’s ing an earlier collapse of three League One ous stand of 95 between two trouble and Jonny knows that fi fth victim, leaving debutant wickets for one run. Walsall Portsmouth cricketers, who have known I like to have fun and a bit of No 10 Jack Leach with a tough Ross Taylor lightened the WSL One MARK WOOD has spent the one another more than half crack out there. challenge, to which he rose, mood at one point on the Yeovil Liverpool, 12pm* winter dreaming of a hero’s their lives, off set eight wick- “We were just having a as he and Bairstow closed out boundary when he obliged a Arsenal Chelsea, 12pm* return for England but got a sig- ets shared by Tim Southee and laugh: ‘Oh, [Neil] Wagner’s the day. spectator by signing a piece of Everton P P Bristol City* Birmingham Sunderland, 2pm* nifi cant variation on the story Trent Boult. bowled another bouncer,’ “I was just more disap- sandpaper, in a set-piece parody Man City Reading, 2pm* he envisaged in Christchurch Alluding to his tale of the which put my mind at ease pointed I got out the last ball of the ball-tampering crisis WSL Two yesterday. unexpected, Wood said: “The really, and you just forget the before the second new ball, which has beset Australia in Durham Oxford United, 12pm* Wood, in his fi rst Test since worrying thing is I’ve got a situation you’re in.” having worked so hard, to leave South Africa and landed world Brighton Tottenham, 2pm* last July following a lengthy [Test] 50 before a fi ve-for — so Wood went on to outscore Leachy on his debut going in cricket with a week of regret- Sheffi eld Millwall, 2pm* recurrence of the ankle inju- I’ve done that the wrong way his senior partner. against the new ball. table headlines. Scottish Premiership ries which have been the bane round, haven’t I? Asked if that was the plan, “That was a bit rubbish. But Otherwise, Southee admits it Motherwell Rangers, 12.30pm of his professional life, helped “But I loved batting out there with a smile, he said: “Obvi- apart from that, I had a great was simply a case of the hosts Aberdeen St Johnstone Jonny Bairstow turn the tour- with Jonny — a lad I’ve played ously. time while I was out there. keeping their cool to ensure Celtic Ross County ists’ fortunes around against with and against since about 11 “I get to 20 and think I’m like “I like that bit of arrogance England’s counter-attack did Hibernian Partick Thistle Kilmarnock Hamilton Academical New Zealand. or 12 years old. [Don] Bradman — and try too about the way Jonny bats … not get out of hand. Dundee Hearts, 12.30pm* Instead of a maiden fi ve- “I had loads of fun — I thor- many shots. it takes the bowlers off their “They played exceptionally wicket haul on day one of this oughly enjoyed it.” “[But] Jonny, being a bats- gameplan and maybe there was well when their team needed Scottish Champ Dumbarton Livingston second and fi nal Test, No 9 The two fi rst met playing in man, knows how to construct a little bit of panic stations at it,” he said. Dunfermline Athletic Queen Of Wood hit a career-best 52 as he opposition for Northumberland an innings — [whereas] at one point.” “But I think the eff ort from The South and Bairstow (97no) engineered and Yorkshire age-group teams, times I chanced my arm a lit- There was little to cheer New the guys has been pretty good Falkirk Brechin City a recovery from 164 for seven and the 28-year-old Geordie tle bit. Zealand as Bairstow and Wood throughout. They tried most Inverness CT St Mirren to 290 for eight. said: “When I went out to bat, His only regret was the tim- launched the recovery follow- things.” Morton Dundee United Scottish League One Alloa Athletic Arbroath East Fife Ayr United Queen’s Park Airdrieonians ■ MEN’S FOOTBALL Raith Rovers Albion Rovers Stranraer Forfar Athletic Scottish League Two Annan Athletic Berwick Rangers Fulham keep pressure on Championship pair Cowdenbeath Stenhousemuir Elgin City Stirling Albion by Our Sports Desk victory for the visitors who ish the half strongly, however, authority on proceedings, but in a low cross from the right Montrose Edinburgh City Peterhead Clyde kept the pressure on Cardiff and would have had a clear Norwich continued to press and the ball defl ected off Zim- and Wolves in the battle for a sight of goal but for poor passes and Murphy was only just merman into the path of the All kickoff s 3pm unless noted FULHAM maintained their top-two fi nish. from fi rst Mario Vrancic and wide with a sweetly struck infl uential midfi elder, who * denotes Sunday game push for automatic promotion Fulham dominated pos- then Josh Murphy. volley. drilled home past an exposed from the Championship with a session in the fi rst half with The hosts also started the Fulham made the break- Gunn. hard-fought 2-0 win over mid- their neat passing game but second period brightly and it through on 66 minutes when table Norwich at Carrow Road never seriously troubled Angus took a superb fi ngertip save Gunn made a fi ne stop to keep Published by the People’s Press MSTAR 2018-03-31 SAT 1.5 yesterday. 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