schools

Content about schooling, and workers' and student struggles in schools.

Schoolchildren on strike in 1985. Photo by Dave Sinclair

Let's destroy the school - don't let your brain rot!

Crowbar #42 April 1985 (partial)

Partial contents, including: Braisford Road squatted creche evicted, squatting news, occupation of South London Women's Hospital evicted,…

What is School?

This is an excerpt of Sheffield Action Group (SHAG)'s Troublemakers zine. The full zine is available to read online at https://issuu.com/sheffaction/docs/troublemakers_1_repaired-compressed or linktr.ee/sheffaction

Cartoon of a journalist phoning in the Army's story about Bloody Sunday whilst drinking in a pub

Inside Story #1 1972

Debut issue of Inside Story with several features on Blood Sunday in Northern Ireland and related media fallout. Also potential closure of steel…

New York school crisis - Council for the Liberation of Daily Life

A situationist inspired intervention into education struggles in 1968. The text was orginally titled "The Newest School Buildings Are Indistinguishable from the Newest Prisons or the Newest Industrial Complexes".

a photograph of desks in an empty classroom, the title of the pamphlet appears in red over the blackboard

The End of High School - Point Blank!

A situationist critique of High School, teachers, education etc. By Californian post-situationist group Point Blank in 1971.

Education workers' picket line.

Conservatives back down on anti-worker law in face of general strike threat. Rank and file resolute.

Ontario’s Conservative government officially repealed its anti-worker, anti-union…

Durham police officers mix with pupils at a Newton Aycliffe comprehensive school. When the boot comes in.

The Sigh Of The Oppressed Oppressor

BM Blob on kids, youth workers, teachers etc.

The battle for Saint Christopher’s School - Sean Lynch

An account of the Irish Traveller community in Dublin building its own school in the 1960s - and how…

Irish travellers take direct action – Bill Connolly

Syndicalist Workers Federation report from 1964 on the Irish Traveller community in Cherry Orchard, Dublin, taking matters into their own hands…

photo of Colin Ward speaking at the International Anarchist Conference in Venice

The Path Not Taken - Colin Ward

Colin Ward contrasts working class self-help with the welfare state. From The Raven #3, 1987.

Reopen or Close Schools: A Lose-Lose Situation for the Working Class

Article from 1919 (mcmxix.org), the new journal of the North American affiliates of the ICT.

Chicago Teachers Take Wildcat Action in the Face of Unsafe COVID Conditions

Report from Chicago IWW about recent wildcat strike actions by Chicago area teachers in the face of…