Teacher pay offer in England worsens financial crisis in education; unions offer no solution
Education workers need organisations that are prepared to challenge cuts and unite workers across the education and public sector.
Tom Pearce, Tania Kent•
Australian government threats to defund universities that fail to suppress anti-genocide dissent
Labor is stepping up a witch-hunting atmosphere against opponents of the mounting Israeli assault on the people of Gaza.
Mike Head•
Australia: Oppose the sellout union agreements at WSU! Build rank-and-file committees!
The WSU management is trying to push through new 2026–30 enterprise agreements that will facilitate more job destruction, further real pay cuts and increased workloads.
Western Sydney University Rank-and-File Committee•
The New School lays off 90 faculty and staff
At least 19 full-time faculty members and 68 university staff received layoff notices last month as part of a broader restructuring plan. Only the formation of independent rank-and-file committees that unite workers and students across every division of the university can reverse these attacks.
John Conrad•
Clemens Huber, Florian Hasek•
Sue Phillips•
A WSU Rank-and-File Committee member•
A WSU Rank-and-File Committee member•
Joe Mount, Robert Stevens•
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Australia: Oppose the sellout union agreements at WSU! Build rank-and-file committees!
The WSU management is trying to push through new 2026–30 enterprise agreements that will facilitate more job destruction, further real pay cuts and increased workloads.
Western Sydney University Rank-and-File Committee•
VW Action Committee calls for strikes and industrial action at all sites. Break the control of the IG Metall union apparatus! Defend every job!
Volkswagen is moving forward with plans to cut 100,000 jobs and close four plants in Germany, the deepest attack on VW workers ever and part of a global wave of layoffs in the auto industry.
Volkswagen Action Committee•
Reinstate Nexteer worker Antwiane Sanders immediately! An injury to one is an injury to all! Remove the company’s cops in the UAW bureaucracy!
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.
Statement of the Nexteer Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
4 workers dead at Palmetto: The safety crisis, the privatization drive, and how postal workers can fight back
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.
USPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
NHS FightBack•
USPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
Nexteer Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
Nexteer Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
Steve Hill•
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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