Posts tagged: education

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  "Everybody Who Works Here Should Be Here": The New School Cafeteria Occupation

  Interviews with workers and students currently occupying the New School cafeteria. 

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  Militancy in Many Forms: Teachers Strikes and Urban Insurrection, 1967–74

  Marjorie Murphy looks at the often fraught relationship between rank-and-file public school teacher militancy and the urban uprisings of the late 1960s and early 70s. 

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  A Statement from the SENS-UAW Strike Committee at The New School

  The New School administration has been unrelenting in its effort to push back against student and cafeteria workers' demands for fair working conditions and basic dignity.

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  The Historic 1968 Struggle Against Columbia University

  How a Black United Front in Harlem, the Students’ Afro American Society, and Students for a Democratic Society took on Columbia University, Mayor John Lindsay, the New York Times, the NYPD in 1968 — and won!

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  The Teacher Uprising Hits the University

  The recent strike wave has once again made the entire field of education a key site in the class struggle. 

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  Victory for the Education Sector Strike in Brazil

  An examination of the recent strike by Brazilian education workers in opposition to proposed pension reform. 

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  French Students are Right to Rebel: Against an Order Based on Selection and Repression

  An open letter in support of the current student revolt, the railworkers’ strike, and the struggles in defence of public services in France.

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  Bigotry, Biggar, and The Daily Mail: Brief Reflections

  Priyamvada Gopal responds to the racist attacks on her work in the British tabloids. 

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  An Appeal from the Students at Nanterre

  Students in France are determined to fight against the Macron government and its anti-social reforms.

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  In Solidarity with the Students at Nanterre

  The Mouvement du 22 mars, founded on 22 March 1968, was a Nanterre-based movement decisive to catalysing the student revolt that sparked the France-wide general strike of May–June 1968. Fifty years later, in this text former M22M militants express their solidarity with the students today under attack on this same campus.

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  Striking Teachers and Wildcat Politics

  Capitalism needs teachers. Teachers are learning that they don’t need capitalism.

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  A Brief History of School Violence in the United States (2011)

  In this Weekend Reads excerpt from Lockdown High, Annette Fuentes reconstructs the history of school violence in the US, as both a fact and a concept, from the nineteenth century onwards.