Massive protests in France over deportation of Kosovar schoolgirl Last week Leonarda Dibrani, a 15 year old school girl, was dragged off a bus during a school trip…
The school of ignorance and its modern conditions - Jean-Claude Michéa In this 1997 essay, contemporary educational reform is offered as an illustration of not only the…
I.Q tests: Building blocks for the new class system Chomsky's response to Richard Herrnstein's views on intelligence and IQ. Originally appeared in Ramparts July 1972.
IWW Scottish education workers’ network: what we stand for What we stand for: Worker and student rights and self-organisation / Opposition to casualisation…
Contemporary anarchist studies: an introductory anthology of anarchy in the academy This volume of collected essays by some of the most prominent academics studying anarchism bridges…
Organize to strike, fight to win! Quebec's 2012 student strike A pamphlet analysing the 2012 student strikes against tuition fee rises in Quebec.
Playing for keeps - Madaline Dreyfus An account of reasons for organising, and the death of a young child.
Pop-Up Union to ballot for strike Workers opposed to privatisation decided to ballot for industrial action after Sussex uni bosses refused to stop the ongoing outsourcing process…
MOOCs: Education’s “The Emperor Wears No Clothes” Moment The recent backlash against MOOCs has tended to romanticize an ideal of public higher education. …
Precarity and the workplace: an account of organising at an FE College Published online in February 2012. Written by Siobhan as part of Shift's Precarity series, the introduction to which can be read here.
The work/energy crisis and the apocalypse - George Caffentzis 1980 essay by George Caffentzis examining capitalist society following the 1973 energy and economic crisis amidst the widespread refusal of work by women and the young.