Workers Struggles: The Americas
On October 16, 37,000 workers at ten UC campuses, five medical centers and other facilities staged protests ahead of the looming expiration of their contract.
Report on universities in Turkey reveals disastrous social conditions of students
The report demonstrates the consequences of decades of attacks by the ruling class on the social conditions of the working class.
Ozan Kutlucan•
Educators stage sick-out to protest staff cuts in East Orange, New Jersey
Educators in East Orange, New Jersey, called in sick to work on Thursday and Friday, after the city’s school board announced that nearly 10 percent of education workers in the district would be laid off in December.
Steve Light, Sandy English•
Militarized schools spearhead attacks on public education in Brazil
The growing attacks on public education in Brazil and internationally are part of a shift by the world’s ruling elite towards dictatorship at home and war abroad.
Guilherme Ferreira•
Nancy Hanover•
Western Sydney University Rank-and-File Committee•
Nancy Hanover•
Joe Raymond, Alexander Fangmann•
Tania Kent•
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Vote NO on the sellout contract! Mobilize all sections of workers behind Boeing machinists!
The agreement meets none of our demands, which we have made abundantly clear from the start, including an immediate 40 percent pay increase and the restoration of our pensions. No amount of bureaucratic spin can hide the fact that it is a pro-company sellout.
Boeing Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
Vote for rank-and-file committee slate in Berlin transit BVG staff council elections!
We call on you to vote for the rank-and-file “Action Committee for Transport Workers” slate in the upcoming staff council elections in mid-November at Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG). We are running in these elections to build new fighting structures that will enable us transport workers to intervene directly in workplace disputes.
Transport Workers' Action Committee•
Boeing strike at the crossroads: What workers need to fight intervention by government and Wall Street
The whole of corporate America is lining up behind Boeing; the working class must line up behind us.
Boeing Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
Reject the sellout railroad contracts! Build a rank-and-file rebellion against the sellout union bureaucrats!
We demand a national contract with real gains which will set an example for workers everywhere.
The Railroad Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
Statement by the Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee (UK)•
Boeing Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees•
Boeing Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
National Steel Car Rank-and-File Committee•
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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