Australia: Western Sydney University students not told about block teaching plan
The “Western Momentum” model, revealed to academic staff last month, has serious implications for students and staff alike.
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Nearly 200 arrested as Belgian youth defy crackdown on education protests
Defence Minister Theo Francken is accelerating plans for a military-trained police force with a remit to crush social disorder.
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Australian state Labor government decimates drama studies in schools
Labor’s curriculum “de-cluttering” has resulted in a dramatic decline in drama enrolments in New South Wales schools.
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Australia: Silence on Labor’s agenda at University of Melbourne strike rally
Amid rising discontent over deteriorating conditions and continued real pay cuts under the Albanese Labor government, the National Tertiary Education Union is seeking new three-year enterprise agreements with university managements across Australia.
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Aviation workers vote to establish rank-and-file committee, launch independent workers’ inquiry into death of Montreal Airport ramp worker Oscar Robayo
Robayo, a 39-year-old employee of the French-based multinational Samsic, was crushed to death by the nose gear of an Airbus A350 at Montréal-Trudeau International Airport on August 24.
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Pennsylvania USPS workers form rank-and-file committee: “We call for a struggle that unifies all postal workers”
The postal service—a product of the American Revolution—has been systematically bled over decades by both Democratic and Republican parties. We have been forced to operate like a profit-making company despite the clear intention by the Founding Fathers to have the mail system as a universal right to all in the name of having an informed society able to fight back against tyranny.
Southern Pennsylvania Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
“Attacks on postal workers are accelerating, and the official channels have proven incapable of stopping them”
St. Paul USPS workers found Rank-and-File Committee
The future of the Postal Service will not be decided in our favor if workers remain isolated and passive. Our strength lies in our unity.
St. Paul Processing and Distribution Center Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
Postal Workers: Refuse to withhold ballots! Defend mail-in voting and the post office!
We refuse to carry out any order to withhold, delay or “verify” mail-in ballots. We will not be the instrument of the disenfranchisement of the American people.
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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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