The World Socialist Web Site has received numerous statements from educators involved in independent rank-and-file committees across the world supporting the three-day strike by Los Angeles school workers this week.
Regular readers of the World Socialist Web Site in the UK have given interviews or sent in personal appeals for workers and young people to take part in this Sunday’s rally.
These disputes confirm that the working class cannot tolerate another year in which a fightback against the employers is sabotaged by organisations that are unions in name only and function as an industrial police force on behalf of the corporate elite.
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Committee for Public Education (Australia) online meeting discusses global struggles of teachers and educators
The Committee for Public Education (CFPE) held a successful online panel discussion on November 29, to discuss the implications of the ongoing pandemic, focusing on the tasks confronting educators and students and the working class more broadly, especially the fight for educator and student safety. Over 40 people participated, including educators, students and supporters from across Australia, as well as France, Britain, the United States and South Korea.
The panellists were CFPE national convenor Sue Phillips, a member of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP) national committee and long-standing educator in the primary sector; Renae Cassimeda, a member of the SEP in the US and of the US Educators Rank-and-File committee, San Diego and Los Angeles, and a secondary school history teacher; Tania Kent, a member of the SEP in Britain, chairperson of the UK Educators Rank-and-File