Hampton Roads, Virginia teachers face school closures, health care premium hike, measles crisis
These crises are symptoms of a nationwide assault on public education and the social rights of the working class.
Jane Wise•
Victimization of teachers across the US for criticizing Charlie Kirk
The World Socialist Web Site denounces this witch-hunt, which is aimed not only at silencing teachers but the working class. We call for a nationwide defense campaign, centered in the working class, to answer the attempt to ban all criticism of the extreme right.
Renae Cassimeda•
UK children on free school meals blocked from accessing vital curriculum subjects
Children on free school meals are less likely to take up costlier subjects at GCSE level like music, geography and foreign languages than their better off counterparts.
Margot Miller•
Teamsters shut down University of Minnesota strike, seeking to ram through sellout deal
The strike was shut down as it was garnering broader support, including from performers at the upcoming Farm Aid concert.
Matt Rigel•
Dan Conway•
Nick Barrickman•
Matt Rigel, Ron Jorgenson•
Carolyn Kennett•
Justine Ames•
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Air Canada flight attendants reject sellout wage deal in massive rebuke to union bureaucracy, Carney government
The vote’s outcome underlines the urgent necessity of flight attendants at Air Canada and across North America, as well as workers in every economic sector, establishing their organizational and political independence from the trade union bureaucracy.
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Philadelphia teachers: Prepare for a struggle—break the cycle of sellout, unite the working class, and build rank-and-file power!
The Philadelphia Workers Rank-and-File Strike Committee calls for teachers and all city workers to build independent rank-and-file power to defeat austerity, union betrayal, and attacks on living standards.
Philadelphia Workers Rank-and-File Strike Committee•
What way forward for postal workers after the rejection of Canada Post’s concessions-laden contract?
The contract rejection must become the launching pad for a renewed fight based on an entirely new strategy—one that breaks the stranglehold of the CUPW bureaucracy and mobilizes the immense social power of the entire working class.
Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee (Canada)•
The lessons of the Philadelphia municipal strike and the way forward
The Philadelphia municipal strike was not the end but the opening act in a rapid series of confrontations in Philadelphia and beyond.
Philadelphia Workers Rank-and-File Strike Committee•
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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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