LA Teachers Strike Over the Emptying Out of the City's Classroom
Submitted by AfricanPrint on Jan 26 2019 19:37
Following the six-day teachers' strike in Los Angeles, January 14-22, 2019, a look at union demands, contract results, and a union with a history of following the commands of the capitalist Democratic Party.
The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation
Rancière's classic book on education is committed to the idea of 'the equality of intelligence'.
Education for Critical Conssciousness
Two essays on education as critical dialogue towards autonomy.
Paulo Freire: A Critical Encounter
An anthology of essays on Paulo Freire.
Citizens for better science
The left should advocate for free access to not only scientific literature and data but also the means of production of science.
The Poverty of Student Unions
Submitted by BenS6 on Jul 22 2018 15:06
Institutions exist to do the exact opposite of their stated aims. The police force don’t exist to protect you and stop crime, but instead to keep you in line and to facilitate a unilaterial class war.
Schools don’t exist to educate people and teach them how to think independently, but rather to indoctrinate and create obedient workers.
Governments don’t exist to enact the political will of the people but to frustrate it.
Against the (new and old) familism - down with the family! - humanaesfera
A critique of the family as well as of the ideas of reforming it. The article also deals with the changes of the family in capitalist society, in which there is an increasingly real subsumption of human reproduction to capital.
USA: The Role of the Union in the Teachers Strikes
Submitted by Internationalis... on Jun 9 2018 21:49
It should be common sense that workers can only use their collective strength if united in some body which includes them all. But that assumes that the unions today are representative of the workers. Under modern capitalist conditions the union exists to mediate wage labour on behalf of the state. The unions’ existence as permanent bodies means they have to comply with the rules of the capitalist game. They have become another layer of management within the system.
New Class Composition, New Struggles
Submitted by Internationalis... on May 16 2018 12:56
After years of falling wages and worsening working conditions are we now seeing a new shape to the working class?
Teacher Strikes Show Social Movements the Way Forward
Michael Reagan of the Black Rose Anarchist Federation on the lessons that can be learned from the current wave of education workers' struggles in the US.
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