The World Socialist Web Site spoke to James, a paraprofessional in the New York City public school system who has been witch-hunted for his pro-Palestinian views by Zionist forces, with the complicity of the school administration and the police.
Predicted by many analysts to be the year of the “bloodletting” in public education, schools across the US have announced mass layoffs, school closures, and program eliminations, fueling the onset of a new wave of educator struggles.
The Israel Defense Forces is obliterating the educational infrastructure in Gaza, while AFT President Weingarten, amid empty calls for a ceasefire, campaigns for the reelection of war criminal Biden and defends Israel's “right” to wage war against the Palestinians.
In 2021, the Conservative government began a School Rebuilding Programme, declaring it would rebuild 500 schools over the next 10 years. Two years on just four schools have been rebuilt.
The Newton strike is the latest in an upsurge of teacher strikes in Massachusetts since 2019, after 12 years without a single strike. Since then, strikes have broken out in Dedham, Sharon, Andover, Brookline, Haverhill, Malden and Woburn.