Alabama educators launch rank-and-file safety committee to close schools and save lives! The following is a statement from the Alabama Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee, which has been established to oppose the unsafe opening of schools and nonessential workplaces, save lives and defend public education. Sign up today to join our committee at wsws.org/edsafety!
We are forming the Alabama Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee to protect our lives and the lives of our students, families and the entire community. Our health care system is in a state of crisis
. Earlier this month, the state recorded a record 5,498 new cases. Last week, COVID-19 hospitalizations topped 3,000 for the first time since the start of the pandemic, a 63 percent increase since December 4.
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Timothy Garton Ash is professor of European studies at Oxford University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
After Brexit, Britain and the European Union face the Gore Vidal trap. That waspish American writer said: “It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.” There is now a powerful political logic pushing both sides to make the relative failure of the other the measure of their own success.
We have seen it already over COVID-19 vaccinations, with Prime Minister Boris Johnson boasting that Britain has done more than all the rest of Europe together. Gavin Williamson, Britain’s education minister, took it to a juvenile extreme, claiming this is because “we’re a much better country than every single one of them.” But Vidalism is baked into the Brexiters’ project. After all, the whole point of the exercise is supposed to be that Britain will be “better off out.”
"This is the beginning of the divorce," former GOP Rep. Carlos Curbelo told The Hill on Friday as aftershocks from insurrectionary violence two days before reverberated across the nation.Curbelo, who represented Florida's 26th District from 2015 to 2019, was predicting a final and permanent split between President Trump and the Republican Party.His assessment took another step toward reality a few hours later when Sen. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska).