On the Monday after Thanksgiving, General Motors (GM) announced in a written statement that they would be closing five plants and cutting 14,000 jobs. Included in the proposal for cuts are plants in Ohio, Michigan,...
Read More →Despite the uptick in strike actions, the teachers revolt, and the recent blue wave, the right wing continues their assault on unions, spending millions of dollars on billboards, canvassers, and anti-union propaganda. While many union...
Read More →Fifteen charter schools in Chicago are making history with the first major charter school strike in the U.S. Coming after the massive #RedforEd strike movement that swept the country from West Virginia to Arizona earlier...
Read More →On August 30, United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA) voted to authorize strike action by an astounding 98%. UTLA had been strung along by Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) for well over a year....
Read More →Over 100 students, teachers, parents, and activists attended a special meeting of the Houston Independent School District (HISD) Board of Education on Tuesday, April 24, to oppose a plan to turn ten HISD schools over...
Read More →Three Socialist Alternative members from Arkansas drove to Tulsa to take part in demonstrations. The following report is based on conversations they had with Oklahoma teachers. Oklahoma teachers are continuing the wave of strikes that...
Read More →Loud and angry Washington State Educators Lead a 1,000 people strong Protest to #TossDeVos in Bellevue “DeVos is running an agenda of cutting money to public schools and transferring that money over to charter schools,”...
Read More →In the midst of a $30 million dollar debt crisis, the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Boston community is now facing further attacks on programs, layoffs of staff, and tuition increases. The university authorities are seeking...
Read More →Public education will continue to see tough times under recently appointed Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos. DeVos’s corporate right-wing agenda will be disastrous for public education. Unfortunately, the corporate takeover of public education has been...
Read More →Public sector strike and soldiers’ mutiny expose reality behind “economic growth” Militant Côte d’Ivoire (CWI group in Côte d’Ivoire) Côte d’Ivoire is currently going through a period of heavy social turmoil. The year had started...
Read More →On Tuesday, October 11, Chicago Public School (CPS) teachers, parents and students woke to the news that an indefinite strike, set to begin at six that morning, had been called off. After 22 months of...
Read More →On the Monday after Thanksgiving, General Motors (GM) announced in a written statement that they would be closing five plants and cutting 14,000 jobs. Included in the proposal for cuts are plants in Ohio, Michigan,...
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