EDUCATION AFTER THE PANDEMIC: REFORM AND RENATIONALISATION

Posted on June 29, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged A-Level, assessment, BBC Bitesize, coronavirus, Covid-19, data, digital technology, education, entertainment, exams, featured, GCSE, higher education, internet, jeremy corbyn, Labour, Lenin, lockdown, mental health, National Education Service, NHS, online counselling, online education, pandemic, policy, politics, primary education, privatisation, schools, secondary education, student mental health, teachers assessment, tony blair, Youtube, zoom.

By Howard Green

Tony Blair, upon his election into government in 1997, famously declared that his top three priorities were “Education, education and education”. At the other end of the century, Vladimir Lenin proclaimed that education that didn’t teach about life and politics was indeed a “hypocrisy”. Education has been a central focus of politics for over a hundred years, and today is no different. As the Coronavirus pandemic has disrupted conventional ways of learning for many, the modern British educational system needs short term and long term reform if it is to adapt to the issues of the 21st century. With the advent of Zoom lessons and online assessments, now is the time to explore the full potential of digital technology as the new frontier of education.

REVIEW: MAGNIFICENCE – EMBRACE THE BUTCHER

Posted on June 8, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Community and tagged 1970, Andy Bennett, Ben Dixon, Colin Barrett, Crude Apache, Greg Lindsay-Smith, homelessness, Howard Brenton, Jo Hipperson, Joanna Swan, Lenin, Magnificence, Mao, neoliberalism, norwich, Patricia Fernandez Dominguez, play, politics, Russel J Turner, squatters, St Mary's Works, state sanctioned brutality, The Shoe Factory Social Club, theatre, Tom Butterworth, Tom Francis, Tom O'Sullivan, violence.

by Eli Lambe

Crude Apache is a local community theatre company which has been running, in one form or another, for the last 24 years. They are committed to producing accessible and thought-provoking theatre, and their tradition of using non-theatre spaces for their productions allows for innovative use of space and setting. The industrial, bare-bones space of The Shoe Factory Social Club in St Mary’s Works played well with the theme of their latest production, Howard Brenton’s Magnificence – a timely, if sometimes surface-level, exploration of the 1970’s squatters movement.

The play touches on the rise of neoliberalism, state-sanctioned brutality, homelessness and the effects of state brutality in turning resistance into a determination to hurt, and hurt spectacularly. Directed by Tom Francis, this was a solid adaptation of the original, and very successfully captured the arguments we are still having – with ourselves and each other – almost 50 years on.Continue Reading

THE NEW ‘LEFT-WING’ MCCARTHYISM?

Posted on April 6, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged activists, alliance, black activists, Bright Green, campaigners, campaigning, criticism, Dennis Carney, far left, Green Party, green valuess, greens, human rights, Humanist, humanitarian, in fighting, left values, left wing, Lenin, LGBT+, liberation, Maryam Namazie, mccarthyism, OutRage!, Peter Tatchell, prejudice, progressive politics, racism, response, Rob Berkeley, Simon Nelson, smears, SMM, socialists, solidarity, Stop Murder Music Campaign, student atheist secular, Ted Walker Brown, unity.

In February The Norwich Radical carried an article by Chris Jarvis entitled ‘How I fell out of love with Peter Tatchell‘. This is Tatchell‘s reply.

by Peter Tatchell

A reply to the sectarian distortions of Chris Jarvis.

The future of progressive politics is under threat, again. But this time from the left. Historically, socialists and greens have made gains by building broad alliances around a common goal, such as the campaigns against the poll tax and the bombing of Syria. We united together diverse people who often disagreed on other issues. Through this unity and solidarity, we won. The government of the day was forced to back down.

Nowadays, we are witnessing a revival of far ‘left’ sectarian politics and it is infecting the Green Party too. Zealous activists, seemingly motivated by a desire to be more ‘left’ and pure than rivals, are putting huge energy into fighting and dragging down other campaigners.Continue Reading

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EDUCATION AFTER THE PANDEMIC: REFORM AND RENATIONALISATION

THE NEW ‘LEFT-WING’ MCCARTHYISM?

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