ABSTRACT
Education has the capacity to undercut the institutional supports to inequality and elite power by creating a different field of relationship between free and equal individuals learning and working together to create their social projects in common. Making an educational link to work is a key dimension to the realisation of futures through knowledge. Political correctness became a weapon with which to police politically liberal social movements, liberal academics, liberal media, the arts and left wing, democratic politicians and policies. There was the Internet, social media and the mobile phone that provided a key resource for dissemination of news as well as the ability to co-ordinate activists. Some commentators talked of a ‘raw’ demand, a demand for freedom, for social justice, for rights of free speech, for a more democratic future. The history of the political role of appeals to ‘common sense’ is long.
