Britain’s largest teaching union has voted to combat ‘fascist’ Reform UK in classrooms and lobby to overturn a ban on extreme group Palestine Action.

The National Education Union (NEU) passed a motion today to ‘oppose’ Nigel Farage’s party, claiming it is ‘racist, fascist and Far Right’.

The motion committed the union to distribute ‘anti-racist teaching materials’ as part of a campaign to stop the party taking power.

It also called on teachers to ‘campaign actively’ against Reform UK in the forthcoming local elections, on May 7.

And it said teachers should encourage ‘school-based anti-deportation campaigns’ to support failed asylum seekers.

This afternoon, Reform’s education spokesman Suella Braverman MP said: ‘This is yet more evidence of political indoctrination in our classrooms, cheered on by militant trade union chiefs.

‘The National Education Union is blatantly political, biased and partisan and that’s what it wants its members – many of them teaching in our schools – to teach our children.

‘Parents are sick of it, Britain’s schools should be about education, not ideology. Reform UK stands with hardworking teachers and mums and dads who love Britain and want our schools to be free from political dogma.’

Britain’s largest teaching union has voted to combat ‘fascist’ Reform UK in classrooms and lobby to overturn a ban on extreme group Palestine Action (pictured: Reform leader Nigel Farage with party colleagues Richard Tice and Suella Braverman)

The National Education Union (NEU) passed a motion to ‘oppose’ Nigel Farage’s party, claiming it is ‘racist, fascist and Far Right’ (pictured: General Secretary Daniel Kebede)

Meanwhile, Chris McGovern, a retired headteacher who runs the Campaign for Real Education, said: ‘The intolerant, authoritarian and anti-democratic NEU delegates who passed this motion are carnivorous sheep. They are the real fascists.

‘Most parents will be appalled that classrooms are to be turned into platforms for political indoctrination and brainwashing.

‘The Government needs to enforce the law which outlaws bias and indoctrination in schools.’

The motion was passed at the union’s annual conference in Brighton, which is famous for showcasing hard-Left causes.

Emma Farthing, a member from Country Durham, said: ‘If you are a Reform member… I’d like you to justify how your party isn’t homophobic, transphobic, misogynistic and racist.’

Meanwhile, Lisa Marie Tunnell noted that Reform UK had taken over Derbyshire County Council, and said ‘flags on lampposts’ were evidence of the Far Right ‘targeting’ nearby areas.

Separately, the union also vowed to campaign to legalise the Palestine Action group, which was proscribed under terror laws last year due to criminal damage during protests.

This included breaking into the Brize Norton military base in Oxfordshire, where activists sprayed military planes with red paint.

Separately, the union also vowed to campaign to legalise the Palestine Action group, which was proscribed under terror laws last year due to criminal damage during protests. Pictured: activists occupy the roof of the Thales UK arms factory in 2022 in Glasgow

They also broke into a military factory in Glasgow owned by Thales, where they caused more than £1 million of damage, as well as Elbit Systems, an Israel-based defence firm near Bristol.

Debating the motion, delegates said proscribing the group was a violation of the ‘right to protest’.

In February, the High Court ruled that the ban was ‘unlawful’, but it remains in place for now to allow the Government a chance to appeal.

However, one NEU member, Ben Lawrence from Wiltshire, said the union should not be supporting a group involved in a ‘criminal enterprise’ to cause ‘millions in damage’.

Teachers are by law required to be politically impartial in the classroom, but are allowed to be politically active in their private lives.

Today, Daniel Kebede, General Secretary, said: ‘The NEU has reaffirmed a clear commitment to challenge all forms of racism, fascism and Far Right extremism.

‘Young people are affected by racism and prejudice. It is important that there is opportunity during the school week to build positive attitudes and to ensure children and young people can develop the ability to think critically and independently.’