World Socialist Web Site Educators Newsletter

15/02/2025

The European powers are neither bastions of democracy nor innocent victims of Trump’s machinations. Rather the rise of Trump in the US is an expression of global processes.

15/02/2025

At a recent school board meeting Michigan teachers called for building the Educators Rank-and-File Committee to defend immigrants and oppose the gutting of public education.

15/02/2025

The fraternal and humane sentiments expressed in the Instagram post received a significant and very positive response from both Canadians and Americans.

14/02/2025

There is nothing new in the efforts of Jacobin and the DSA to sow complacency and politically disarm the working class. This was their response to Trump’s attempted coup of January 6, 2021.

14/02/2025

14/02/2025

Action committees of teachers, students and parents, migrant workers, railway workers and free trade zone workers have sent protest letters to the vice chancellor, denouncing the anti-democratic lecture ban.

14/02/2025

New forms of organisation must be built to fight the job destruction, course closures, pro-corporate restructuring and suppression of dissent, because the campus trade unions have for years opposed any unified fight by university staff and students.

14/02/2025

The lawsuit, endorsed by UTLA and two other unions, claims LAUSD violated the law by replacing existing arts funding with new Proposition 28 dollars, rather than using the money to expand arts programs.

14/02/2025

The confirmation of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. as Trump’s Health Secretary marks a critical milestone in the deepening war on public health and the consolidation of a fascist government in the United States.

14/02/2025

Grammy winning rapper Macklemore released a music video this week that expresses widespread revulsion at deepening capitalist barbarism, especially since Donald Trump’s return to the White House.

13/02/2025

In a shocking tragedy in Detroit, two small children on Monday froze to death inside a van at a casino parking lot, where the homeless family was sheltering from the cold.

13/02/2025

There is growing outrage that Abdel-Fattah has been falsely accused of antisemitism, like many other opponents of the intensifying US-backed Israeli mass killings and ethnic cleansing in Palestine.

13/02/2025

Wald's Dylan Goes Electric is the work on which the recent film about Bob Dylan’s early days in music, A Complete Unknown (James Mangold), is loosely based.

Wald's Dylan Goes Electric is the work on which the recent film about Bob Dylan’s early days in music, A Complete Unknown (James Mangold), is loosely based.

12/02/2025

Following a strategy outlined by The Heritage Foundation, author of “Project 2025,” at least five states are seeking to force a review of the 1982 Supreme Court decision in Plyler v. Doe to effect an end to immigrant youths’ right to public schooling.

Following a strategy outlined by The Heritage Foundation, author of “Project 2025,” at least five states are seeking to force a review of the 1982 Supreme Court decision in Plyler v. Doeto effect an end to immigrant youths’ right to public schooling.

12/02/2025

In declaring that the United States will “own” Gaza, Trump has proclaimed a new era of colonial barbarism and brutality, in which whole peoples, in their millions, will be sacrificed upon the altar of imperialist domination.

12/02/2025

Lamar and much of the hip hop world swim in social backwardness and represent the antithesis of opposition to big business and capitalism. Hip hop is big business.

11/02/2025

Under the fraudulent banner of combatting antisemitism, Labor MP Josh Burns last week demanded that Sydney’s Macquarie University dismiss Randa Abdel-Fattah, a prominent pro-Palestinian academic.