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.
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.
Americans in ‘conservative’ states are leading the fight for public education, healthcare and social services.
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.
Through their historic strike, Los Angeles teachers have taught working people across the country how to fight back and win.
Two interviews with Eric Blanc on the importance of rank and file organizing in the wave of teachers strikes.
An indispensable window into the changing shape of the American working class and American politics.
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.
"Our reading in 1968 and thereabouts, done in the context of mass movements of social protest, helped to transform us into revolutionaries."
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.
A Maoist critique of the East German university system published in 1968 by the Shanghai Red Guards.
Interviews with workers and students currently occupying the New School cafeteria.