The government will do nothing serious to make schools safe. But neither will the Labour Party and the trade unions. Otherwise, they would be insisting that the school term be delayed until there is a proper assessment of risks and a plan to remedy them, telling educators not to attend until this has been agreed.
The Socialist Equality Party (UK) Congress resolution explains: "The two alternatives posed before mankind are either unending mass infection, debilitation and death, or the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism and implementation of a policy of global elimination, to end all human-to-human transmission of COVID-19."
“This place gave me COVID, but all they talk about is he, him or that I might be gay. I agree with the pandemic being a socially criminal policy, and this happening internationally.”
Sarah was represented pro bono by distinguished barrister Mark McDonald, of Furnival Chambers, London. Speaking after the hearing, Mark asked pointedly, “What is the public interest in this prosecution”?
The Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee (UK), in solidarity with the International Workers’ Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees (IWA-RFC), must be the axis for building local rank-and-file committees in every school, independent of the trade unions.