UK Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee meets as governments pursue reckless reopening of schools
The UK Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee held a powerful meeting Saturday with speakers from three continents, including three countries in the top-five internationally for COVID-19 fatalities the UK, the United States and Brazil. Between them, these countries account for more than 900,000 of the 2.58 million worldwide COVID-19 deaths.
The meeting outlined an international strategy based on a socialist programme to confront the pandemic which has swept the globe due to the homicidal policies of capitalist governments.
Committee chairperson and special needs teacher Tania Kent opened the meeting saying, “The political tasks and challenges confronting educators in the UK are the same as for workers worldwide: the necessity for a unified international campaign of action to protect lives.”
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