Jacobin promotes student debt bankruptcy
Students are evidently expected to be grateful for the chance, compliments of the Democratic Party, to go into bankruptcy to avoid penury and homelessness.
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University of California academic workers counter efforts by UAW bureaucracy to sell out strike
Against the overwhelming and vocal opposition by the rank and file, UAW bargainers are dropping strikers' most fundamental demands.
Adam Mclean, Hong Jian•
University of Sheffield International College staff mount first strike at a UK private higher education provider
A lecturer explained, “If you inject market forces you are getting increasingly poorer education and the money is just being sucked out of the system.”
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Workers in three UK national strikes speak to the WSWS
Reporters spoke to striking postal, university and sixth form workers involved in national walkouts Wednesday and Thursday.
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John Braddock•
UC Rank-and-File Strike Committee•
Ike Sasson•
Gregor Link•
Daniel de Vries•
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ONLINE RALLY: Defend the railroad workers! Down with Washington’s illegitimate anti-strike law!
All rail worker supporters are urged to attend Tuesday’s meeting at 7 Eastern, where they will hear from railroad workers and their allies in other industries.
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“This election is unfair”: GM Flint workers denounce judge’s rejection of 30-day exension of UAW elections
“The low voter turnout is NOT due to workers’ apathy, but due to the conspiratorial actions of the bureaucracy to limit voter turnout and to suppress the voices of the rank and file,” the committee stated.
GM Flint Assembly Rank-and File Committee•
Public meeting sponsored by Railroad Workers Rank-and-File Committee discusses rank-and-file strategy in advance of December 9 strike deadline
The potential for a united struggle involving railroaders and other key sections of the working class was the main theme of the meeting.
Alex Findijs•
“You stand in the front rank of the struggle for the future”: Autoworker calls for joint action with railroaders fighting for national strike
This statement was delivered by an autoworker at a public meeting Wednesday sponsored by the Railroad Workers Rank-and-File Committee.
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Essential reading
All over the world the trade unions, including those which were founded through bitter struggles led by socialist-minded workers, now play the leading role in enforcing the dictates of management.
In this lecture, delivered in Sydney, Australia in January, 1998, WSWS international editorial board chairman David North explains this profound transformation through an historical examination of the trade unions themselves.
The Soviet literacy campaign remains the largest and most successful in world history. It serves as an enduring demonstration of the extraordinary possibilities for reorganizing society in the interests of the working class on a planned, socialist basis.
This two-part article is a critique of the Democratic Socialists of America’s narrative of the teachers strike wave in 2018-19. It reviews the role of the teachers unions from West Virginia to Arizona, exposing the claims of “victory” by the unions and the DSA. It also assesses the DSA’s opportunistic “dirty break” with the Democratic Party and their role in collaborating with the unions to divert teachers by pressuring the powers-that-be.
This article reviews the significance of the Janus vs. AFSCME Supreme Court case. As an AFSCME’s lawyer warned the ruling elites during oral arguments, the collection of “agency fees” is routinely traded for a no-strike clause in union contracts. He warned, “Should those clauses disappear, employers will have chaos and discord on their hands.”
In line with the identity politics promoted by the Democratic Party and the pseudo-left, “abolitionist teaching” foments divisions among teachers and students based on race.
The origin of the term ethnomathematics is attributed to Brazilian postmodernist Ubiratan D’Ambrosio (1932-). It emphasizes “power relationships” and cultural relativism, downplaying “objective knowledge.”
After Trump provocatively called educators “loser teachers preaching socialism,” the AFT made no comment. Far from defending teachers against red-baiting, union president Randi Weingarten (annual salary above $500,000) agrees that “socialist” teachers have no business in the classroom. This report looks at some of the long and ugly history of the union’s anticommunism.
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