Australian teacher shortages worsen in public schools
Graduates are shunning teaching degrees, while registered teachers are leaving the profession in unprecedented numbers.
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Sri Lanka: Workers action committee discusses defence of school development officers
The online meeting was part of a campaign to alert workers to the government-initiated police attacks on SDOs and to rally support for their defence.
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Democrats join Republicans in passing fascistic “Crucial Communism Teaching Act”
The passage of the bill reflects immense fear within the US ruling class that large sections of the population will be looking for a revolutionary alternative to the unending war, inequality, austerity and fascism offered by the capitalist system.
Jacob Crosse•
Detroit teachers face missing bonuses, inflation, and cuts: Join the fight to defend public education
The Michigan Educators Rank-and-File Committee insists that there are plenty of resources to pay educators what they need and deserve.
Statement of the Michigan Educators Rank-and-File Committee•
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Norisa Diaz, David Benson•
Joe Raymond•
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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.
Roger Jordan•
“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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Mobilize the working class to defy and defeat MacKinnon’s strike ban! Stop the Liberal government-backed destruction of Canada Post and all public services!
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.
Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
The Canada Post strike at the crossroads: Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee to hold public meeting on Sunday, December 8
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.
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Health Workers Rank-and File Committee•
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Transport Workers Action Committee•
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Tony Robson•
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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