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The Texas State Board of Education’s approval of Bible-based reading materials marks a major escalation in the attack on secular public education and the separation of church and state.
What is ruled out by the union bureaucracy are the class struggle methods that could halt the offensive: indefinite all-out strikes, occupations, and coordinated action across every Sheffield campus and across the sector.
The basic contradiction behind the tentative agreement is that district is offering limited raises while closing schools.
Educators who participated in the Committee for Public Education’s recent online public meeting speak about the issues raised at the meeting and the No vote that followed.
Antwiane Sanders, a Nexteer worker with more than 10 years on the job, was fired after speaking out against the fourth tentative agreement at a UAW Local 699 roll-out meeting held on company premises.
These were not simply tragic accidents but the lethal results of austerity. Preventing them requires an organized movement from below, not beholden to management, toothless regulatory agencies or corrupt union officials.
The BMA and other health unions—Unite, Unison, the GMB and the Royal College of Nursing—are suffocating a unified fightback by National Health Service workers.
Four workers have died at the Palmetto Regional Processing and Distribution Center in Georgia in the past two years. The most recent, Demarcus Little, told a supervisor he felt unwell last week, collapsed, and died.
We are building a network of rank-and-file educators, students, parents, and workers to stop the spread of COVID-19 and save lives.
