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Anticapitalism wasn’t banned in English classrooms during the cold war – why is it now?

Anticapitalism wasn’t banned in English classrooms during the cold war – why is it now?

Materials produced by groups with “extreme political stances” have been barred from English classrooms by the UK government under new guidance for the relationships, sex, and health curriculum. Most of these extreme principles – racism, antisemitism and authoritarianism – are uncontroversial. But the list also includes opposition to capitalism: the “desire to overthrow democracy, capitalism, or the […] … learn more→