Well, this is fucking bullshit. Firstly, on a personal level, if this legislation was enacted, it would push me over the edge into quitting teaching and I wouldn’t be the only one. It would also probably take away the right to strike in small primary schools, which is again fucking bullshit, but would also affect their recruitment.
Secondly, if it does go through, anyone asked to work during a strike should simply phone in sick the day of the strike. Fuck them- they can’t actually make you work.
Anyway, we have to fucking fight this. There is a labour shortage in the UK. Let’s show Sunak where power really lies.
Maybe I’ll share more coherent support later but fuck Sunak.
‘Agroecology’ is a term under increasing contestation. Its roots are radical and Latin American; the term was first popularised by the international social movement La Via Campesina (LVC) in the 1990s in relation to rights struggles of peasant and other rural peoples. Yet a growing number of corporations and policy makers in the UK have diluted agroecology, using the term to refer to the the design and management of nature friendly farming systems alone; in the government’s National Food Strategy, published earlier this year, agroecology was defined as: “The application of principles from ecology in farming, with the goal of achieving balanced growth and sustainable development”. A fierce battle has therefore emerged to preserve agroecology’s radical roots and stop it becoming another tool for ‘greening’ corporate agribusiness.
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agroecology and food sovereignty are not check-lists of technocratic criteria but radical frameworks that advocate systemic changes to the industrial food system. “[Agroecology] describes a way of life, a set of values and a global movement grounded in justice, celebration, equity and respect. If these values crumble, then we’re left with a definition that is just tinkering on the edges of capitalism.”
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