How US Education Secretary Linda McMahon is dismantling public education
McMahon’s mandate is to take the Department of Education apart piece by piece until Congress approves its final elimination and the mass privatization of public education.
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McMahon’s mandate is to take the Department of Education apart piece by piece until Congress approves its final elimination and the mass privatization of public education.
This campaign is a test case for the defence of all the academics, journalists, students and workers being slandered and vilified as antisemitic for opposing Israel’s crimes and the underlying nationalist ideology of Zionism, which many Jews oppose.
Abdel-Fattah’s employment has been directly threatened by last week’s decision of the Australian Research Council, acting at the behest of the Albanese government, to freeze her research grant.
A Sydney high school educator was stood down after posting a video denouncing the witch-hunt against two Bankstown nurses goaded into making reactionary comments online by an Israeli provocateur.
The following statement was written by a founding member of the Costco Workers Rank-and-File Committee (CWRFC) to be read at Sunday’s public meeting called by the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees, “Mobilize the working class to save the US Postal Service and other federal programs!”
The CFPE calls on teachers and school workers to join our ranks to fight for decent conditions and wages for all educators, and a public education system that provides the highest quality schooling for all students.
Attendees at meeting called by the US Postal Workers Rank-and-File committee passed a resolution calling on workers to make preparations for “mass resistance, up to and including strike action.”
The attacks on federal workers are part of a broader attack on the social and democratic rights of workers across the country. Join postal workers, federal employees, autoworkers, postal workers from other countries and others in an online meeting this Sunday at 3pm Eastern/12pm Pacific to discuss a strategy to fight back.
We are building a network of rank-and-file educators, students, parents, and workers to stop the spread of COVID-19 and save lives.