West Contra Costa California educators and classified workers launch joint strike
The strike by 3,000 educators and support staff has shut down normal operations in one of the San Francisco Bay Area's largest school districts.
Renae Cassimeda•
Royal Oak, Michigan parents oppose fascist high school club
A packed meeting of the Royal Oak Board of Education heard parents describe the forming of a Turning Point USA club at the local high school as a threat to their children.
Esther Galen•
Australia: False claims of “backflip” on job and course cuts at University Technology Sydney
At the UTS rally, union speakers claimed to be “winning,” even as the vice-chancellor’s update showed that the majority of the cuts and course closures are still proceeding.
Erika Zimmer•
Teachers in secondary school in Bacup, England to strike demanding face to face qualified teacher in the classroom
School management have employed a virtual teacher 300 miles away in Devon because of the chronic shortage of maths teachers.
Margot Miller•
John Braddock•
Antony Walsh•
Nancy Hanover, Kimie Saito•
Antony Walsh•
Andrea Peters•
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“Reject the politics of compromise and subordination”: Open letter from California nurse to New Orleans nurses
“The path forward lies in organizing independently—through the creation of rank-and-file committees democratically controlled by nurses themselves—to wage a genuine fight for your demands.”
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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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