Trump’s school voucher plan: A billion-dollar tax shelter for the ruling elites
This scheme is a backdoor maneuver to privatize education while allowing corporations and wealthy individuals to avoid taxation.
Jane Wise•
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Union blocks motion to defend Randa Abdel-Fattah at Sydney’s Macquarie University
The resolution called for an urgent campus rally of staff and students to fight moves to sack Abdel-Fattah, a widely respected academic who is being targeted because of her opposition to the US-backed Israeli genocide in Palestine.
Our correspondents•
Staff protest job cuts at the University of Technology Sydney
Speakers at the UTS rally, called by the National Tertiary Education Union, covered up the Albanese Labor government’s role in the destruction of more than 2,000 university jobs nationally.
Our correspondents•
Mobilize the working class to fight Trump’s destruction of the Department of Education!
The fight against Trump’s bid for dictatorship must be combined with a fight to free the working class from the grip of the corrupt union officials and the Democratic Party, who are complicit in Trump’s attacks on the working class.
Tom Hall•
Our reporters•
Antonio Marquez•
Henry Lee•
Kevin Reed•
Robert Stevens•
Letter from Costco worker to rank-and-file meeting: “The working class is primed and ready for mobilization, it is now on us to act”
The following statement was written by a founding member of the Costco Workers Rank-and-File Committee (CWRFC) to be read at Sunday’s public meeting called by the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees, “Mobilize the working class to save the US Postal Service and other federal programs!”
A Costco worker•
Australia: Build rank-and-file committees against accelerating assault on public education!
The CFPE calls on teachers and school workers to join our ranks to fight for decent conditions and wages for all educators, and a public education system that provides the highest quality schooling for all students.
Committee for Public Education•
Online rank-and-file meeting calls for mass mobilization of working class in US and internationally in opposition to illegal firings
Attendees at meeting called by the US Postal Workers Rank-and-File committee passed a resolution calling on workers to make preparations for “mass resistance, up to and including strike action.”
Jacob Crosse•
ONLINE MEETING SUNDAY: Mobilize the working class to save the US Postal Service and other federal programs!
The attacks on federal workers are part of a broader attack on the social and democratic rights of workers across the country. Join postal workers, federal employees, autoworkers, postal workers from other countries and others in an online meeting this Sunday at 3pm Eastern/12pm Pacific to discuss a strategy to fight back.
USPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
Costco Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
Ford Workers Rank and File Committee•
Nancy Hanover•
USPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
Committee for Public Education•
Frequently Asked Questions
What does the term “rank-and-file” mean and where does it come from?
“Rank-and-file” is originally a military term. It refers to the lower “ranks” of soldiers, who literally stand in lines or “files”. These soldiers have a different set of interests in preserving their lives than the officers or “brass” who prosecute the wars on behalf of the ruling elite.
Rank-and-file committees are of, by and for the rank-and-file workers, who have a different set of interests in preserving their lives than management, the bosses, the politicians, and the trade union apparatus, who send workers to die while defending the profits of the ruling elite.
Is it legal to build rank-and-file committees of educators and other workers to stop the spread of COVID-19?
Yes. The formation of rank-and-file committees is 100% completely legal under the First Amendment to the US Constitution.
The right to freedom of speech means you can say whatever you like about what you agree or disagree with. Freedom of association, also covered under the first amendment, means you have the right to associate with others who share your views, for political ends. You also have the right to petition the government for redress, to make demands on the government and tell them what you want them to do.
Does HIPAA law prevent schools or workplaces from disclosing information about the spread of COVID-19?
No. HIPAA has an exception for disclosures to prevent and control the spread of disease, but the state is deliberately not invoking this exception in order to conceal information from workers, so that they can pretend that what they are doing is safe when it’s not.
Rank-and-file educators have the right to know who’s gotten sick, where, when, and what happened. Rank-and-file committees have to demand this information, and have to share it with other workers as a matter of collective self defense.