Education targets become ends in themselves, argues Michael Copestake The pernicious and self-defeating influence of targets, league tables and over-examination in schools has thrust the education system once again into the media spotlight. This time outside its regular place in the annual news cycle, which, as residents of Britain at least will know, usually follows the ...
James Turley takes on the reactionaries whipping up hysteria over the age of criminal responsibility Ever on the lookout for a soft target, the forces of reaction in Britain have recently directed their fire against ... children. The issue is the proper age of criminal responsibility - at what point is an individual legally considered fit for ...
It is clear that the current crisis of capitalism has caused a heightening of class antagonisms. Across the world workers are striking to protect jobs and wages, and new organisations are being born of the class struggle. In recent months there has been particular focus on the troubles of the Greek people. In Greece there ...
In today’s society there is a growing fear of the youth, one does not have to look too hard in the bourgeois press to find periodic waves of anti-youth hysteria. The bourgeoisie play on the fears of the elderly and middle England, promising to get tough on ‘anti-social behaviour’ and tough on the causes ...