Posts tagged: education

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  A Goldsmiths Diary

  The UK higher education sector is increasingly under threat. Here Angela McRobbie writes about the sweeping series of planned redundancies at Goldsmiths, University of London, and the wider assault on the sector.
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  Something’s in the Air

  When a Philadelphia public high school teacher discovered dangerously high levels of CO₂ in her classroom, it kicked off a fight about inequality, capitalism and the power of socialist organizing in America's crumbling public school system.

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  Diversity and inclusion within what and for whom? And other questions about the political economy of academia

  That diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives presuppose equity is what allows them to assimilate with ease into administrative austerity and the degradation of work. We must raise our expectations about what needs to change about higher education to make it accessible to all.

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  Want to beat Trump? Learn from workers in Republican states

  Americans in ‘conservative’ states are leading the fight for public education, healthcare and social services.

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  Why Oakland’s Striking Teachers Won

  Though educators did not achieve all their demands, Oakland’s teachers strike transformed the city, won important gains, and empowered educators to take on the billionaire education privatizers.

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  What the LA Teachers Won, and How They Won It

  Through their historic strike, Los Angeles teachers have taught working people across the country how to fight back and win.

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  Eric Blanc Interviewed on Jacobin's The Vast Majority

  Two interviews with Eric Blanc on the importance of rank and file organizing in the wave of teachers strikes.

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  The Teachers’ Strike Wave and Working-Class Politics

  An indispensable window into the changing shape of the American working class and American politics.

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  The Augar Review and the Marketisation of Higher Education

  Response from the left to the government's recent Augar Review of higher education has so far focused on whether it is deliverable, not whether it is desirable. In this article, Oliver Eagleton argues that the left must reject the Report's proposals in full, and replace them with a radical, de-marketised alternative.

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  Reading the Revolution: A Memoir of 1968

  "Our reading in 1968 and thereabouts, done in the context of mass movements of social protest, helped to transform us into revolutionaries."

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  Senegal’s Street Fighting Years

  Researcher and activist Pascal Bianchini describes the lasting effects of the 1960s–70s student movement in Senegal and the condition of the Senegalese left today. 

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  The Black Façade of the Universities of German Revisionism (1968)

  A Maoist critique of the East German university system published in 1968 by the Shanghai Red Guards.