schools

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

Schoolchildren on strike in 1985. Photo by Dave Sinclair

"My pension is fine, I don't know what they're worried about…"

Unison: fighting the cuts. Or is it?

The anti-cuts movement is buzzing with talk of a coordinated strike on 30 June. But where is Unison, the public sector's biggest union in all…

LACS walkout

Schoolkids walkout and march in Ithaca NY

Students from the Lehman Alternative Community School walked out in solidarity with Wisconsin and democracy.

The Charter of the Modern School

The ICEM (Institut Coopératif de l'Ecole Moderne) and the FIMEM (Féderation Internationale des Mouvements de l'Ecole Moderne) are the official organisations of Freinet education. There are over 2000 Freinet teachers in state schools in France, where head teachers have no authority over the teaching methods in individual classrooms in their schools.) Even though the charter of the Modern School was produced some time…

White Lion Free School Islington

A personal account of being a student at the White Lion Free School in Islington, London, which existed from 1972 to 1990. Its primarily to counter a negative perception given by a former teacher, who wrote a book called 'Free School: The White Lion Experience'.

Wisconsin Gov Scott Walker

Wisconsin: war declared on state workers

The Governor of the State of Wisconsin, Scott Walker, has just dropped the anvil on public sector workers statewide. This is the start of a…

College students bulletin for January 26th day of action to defend EMA

Bulletin put together by college students and supporters to build for the January 26th national day…

Interview with an Algerian anarcho-syndicalist

Achour Idir is an organizer with the autonomous Algerian trade union, the Conseil des Lycées d'Algérie (CLA, Council of Secondary Schools of…

Shiny new buildings: academies

Education’s Trojan horses: the thoughts of an academy school worker

Some thoughts of an academy school worker in England.

A year in española

A tale of teaching toil in a bilingual school in New Mexico.

Education is a duty - Junge Linke

In the wake of the wave of student protests and occupations over the increase in tuition fees, cuts to education funding and abolition of EMA,…

This rage is the only future we have! Thoughts on 14th December protests in Italy

Reflections on the widespread, violent demonstrations on 14 December 2010 in Italy, mostly of young…

Notes on the violent minority

A text drafted during the November 2010 university occupations focussing on liberal ideology, state repression and the student movement.