American Historical Association leadership vetoes members’ resolution condemning genocide in Gaza
The AHA vetoed the resolution despite mass support from the membership for the resolution.
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CTU and Mayor Brandon Johnson prepare austerity contract for Chicago teachers
Teachers must reject the illusions peddled by CTU bureaucracy about the supposed “transformative” contract.
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1 in 6 UK schoolchildren studying in schools in disrepair
As of its 2023-24 annual report, the Department for Education now flags possible school building collapse as one of its six key risks, describing it as “critical – very likely.”
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Sri Lanka: Peradeniya University tries to justify ban on IYSSE lecture
The IYSSE warns: The attack on free speech by Peradeniya University authorities, if not answered and fought, will be extended to other universities, institutions of higher studies and schools.
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The Kokomo Rank-and-File Committee has issued a call to build and expand committees at Stellantis and across the Big Three to oppose job cuts.
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International working class unity, not the USW’s support for tariffs and nationalist warmongering, can defend our jobs at National Steel Car!
We know workers at National Steel car are going through a rough time right now. These massive layoffs, affecting some 1,200 workers or approximately three-quarters of our workforce, are happening at the worst possible time and are obviously causing a lot of stress.
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Unelected Canada Industrial Relations Board orders postal workers back to work from Tuesday
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.
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“Rank-and-file postal workers, not the corrupt union officialdom, should decide if MacKinnon’s antidemocratic back-to-work order will be respected or defied”
Canada Post workers call for working class to mobilize in opposition to Liberal government’s strike ban
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.
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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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