David O'Sullivan campaigns among striking teachers in East London
Like O’Sullivan, teachers at the school have been sacked for defending their legal right to a safe workplace during the coronavirus pandemic.
Sally Smith•
Teachers picket Labour-run council over COVID-19 safety victimisations
Redbridge Council, which Labour holds with an 81 percent majority, has sided openly with the Johnson government’s Department for Education, endorsing teacher victimisations and sackings during the pandemic.
Laura Tiernan•
Educators across the US West Coast call for unified struggle with striking Volvo workers
Our committees stand in solidarity with the striking Volvo truck workers and will fight to raise awareness of this powerful struggle among workers throughout the West Coast.
West Coast Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committees•
Republican-led states enact fascistic laws that ban the teaching of “divisive concepts”
While large sections of the media have falsely presented these bills as centered solely on the banning of critical race theory, they, in fact, represent a sweeping attack on democratic rights, historical truth and public education.
Renae Cassimeda•
Tania Kent•
our reporters•
Mike Head•
John Harris•
Margot Miller•
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Educators across the US West Coast call for unified struggle with striking Volvo workers
Our committees stand in solidarity with the striking Volvo truck workers and will fight to raise awareness of this powerful struggle among workers throughout the West Coast.
West Coast Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committees•
Educators in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Ohio support the struggle of Maruti Suzuki workers
As educators from Maryland, Ohio and Pennsylvania, we condemn the death of the Indian Maruti Suzuki worker Jiyalal and pledge our support to the struggle to free the 11 remaining framed-up workers.
Pennsylvania Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee•
Pennsylvania educators support unified struggle with striking Volvo workers and Amazon workers!
Our committee, comprised of educators from Pennsylvania, Ohio and Maryland, offers our fullest solidarity with the striking Volvo workers at the New River Valley plant in Dublin, Virginia.
Pennsylvania Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee•
Volvo workers’ open letter to the UAW: “What is your strategy for victory?”
This is an open letter from the Volvo Workers Rank-and-File Committee at the New River Valley Plant in Dublin, Virginia, to UAW International President Rory Gamble, UAW Secretary-Treasurer Ray Curry and UAW Local 2069 President Matt Blondino.
The Volvo Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
Amazon BWI2 Rank-and-File Safety Committee•
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Action Committee of WISAG Ground Workers in Frankfurt•
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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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