The meeting, attended by over 150 workers from 6 countries, elaborated a political perspective for health workers, educators, and other sections of the working class to fight the homicidal “let it rip” COVID policies.
The contributions given in reports and comments from audience members make clear that no faith whatsoever can be placed in capitalist politicians or the trade union apparatus to make schools safe for teachers, parents and students.
Tania Kent, a Socialist Equality Party member, special needs teacher and chairperson of the Educators Committee explained, “We are in the midst of the greatest public health disaster for over 100 years.”
Amid the exponential spread of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus across Europe, an online meeting of the Network of Rank-and-File Committees for Safe Education expressed the immense opposition and willingness to fight against the criminal herd immunity policies of governments everywhere.