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According to analysis by the Guardian, more than £100 million was spent last year by local authorities and the government on failed efforts to block support for children and young people with special educational needs in England.
Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt has been recently promoting his “Classrooms to Careers” initiative, which would alter high school graduation requirements to ensure students are enrolled in a college, trade school, or the military, sparking outrage among parents, teachers and students.
Management at the University of Sydney, historically a centre of political opposition to war and inequality, is moving to prohibit any form of political opposition on campus, particularly to the Israeli genocide in Gaza.
Sixth form colleges that have transformed into academies (state-funded but privately run) have been granted funding for a paltry teacher pay rise through the post-16 schools budget grant. But the remaining non-academised sixth form colleges have been given nothing at all.
Postal workers must defy this anti-democratic edict, but this requires the mobilization of the broadest sections of the working class—public and private sector alike—across Canada and internationally.
The CUPW leadership has issued no call for postal workers to defy the impending, patently anti-democratic government-order illegalizing their strike. As for the Canadian Labour Congress, it hasn’t so much as bothered to issue a press release denouncing the Liberal government's strikebreaking.
Now more than ever, the central issue is to mobilize the social power of the entire working class. Every worker has a stake in our struggle and we must make them aware of that.
Canada Post strikers are determined to wage a struggle. But they are being hamstrung by the disastrous policies of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers and Canadian Labour Congress, which are forcing the workers to stand alone against the combined strength of corporate Canada and its bought-and-paid-for political representatives.
We are building a network of rank-and-file educators, students, parents, and workers to stop the spread of COVID-19 and save lives.
