World Socialist Web Site Educators Newsletter

21/12/2024

Elon Musk, owner of Tesla, SpaceX, and the social media platform X, is leveraging his staggering fortune to finance and promote fascist forces throughout the world.

21/12/2024

The online meeting was part of a campaign to alert workers to the government-initiated police attacks on SDOs and to rally support for their defence.

21/12/2024

The film’s jarring tone stems from the misguided decision to turn a story about abuse and forced sterilisation into an “empowering” feminist tale.

20/12/2024

On Monday, federal judge David Lawson of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan ordered the UAW to produce records and documents the union had been withholding in an effort to block an investigation into ongoing corruption within the UAW bureaucracy presently led by UAW President...

20/12/2024

The entire political establishment is in agreement on the need to enforce the pro-corporate policy of “forever COVID,” in which the working class and broad layers of society as a whole are condemned to unending waves of mass infection, death and debilitation with Long COVID.

20/12/2024

The fascist president-elect is seeking to destroy the US constitutional structure of “checks and balances” and give himself unlimited political authority.

20/12/2024

Canadian short-story writer Alice Munro’s death earlier this year should be the occasion for assessing and reassessing problems with contemporary fiction.

19/12/2024

The killing is the latest in a series of extremely provocative measures taken by the United States and NATO with the intention of escalating the Ukraine war in the weeks before the inauguration of incoming President Donald Trump on January 20.

19/12/2024

The passage of the bill reflects immense fear within the US ruling class that large sections of the population will be looking for a revolutionary alternative to the unending war, inequality, austerity and fascism offered by the capitalist system.

19/12/2024

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Detroit teachers face missing bonuses, inflation, and cuts: Join the fight to defend public education Statement of the Michigan Educators Rank-and-File Committee18 December 2024Detroit teachers sickout protest in 2016The following statement was issued by the Michigan Educators Rank-and-File Committe...

18/12/2024

The state-led crackdown on workers’ rights underscores the ruling elite’s embrace of authoritarianism to enforce its class war agenda of austerity and war, and that to defend their jobs, workplace benefits, right to strike and public services, workers in Canada and around the world confront a political struggle over which class controls society’s resources and to what end.

The state-led crackdown on workers’ rights underscores the ruling elite’s embrace of authoritarianism to enforce its class war agenda of austerity and war, and that to defend their jobs, workplace benefits, right to strike and public services, workers in Canada and around the world confront a po...

18/12/2024

Coppell, Lewisville, Plano, and Richardson ISD all slated to close schools, citing budget shortfalls and declining enrollment, but this fails to explain broader nationwide trends.

17/12/2024

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17/12/2024

Once again, horror has unfolded in an American school, as two people were killed and multiple others injured in a mass shooting Monday morning at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin, the state capital.

The alleged killer's case paints a chilling portrait of a deeply pessimistic and fascistic worldview.

17/12/2024

The corporate media, dominated by billionaires and giant corporations like Disney, the owner of ABC, is dropping any pretense of a critical, let alone adversarial, relationship to the incoming administration.

16/12/2024

The life story of Leonardo (1452–1519), one of history’s most extraordinary intellects and artistic geniuses, always stirs the imagination.

16/12/2024

The wealth of Elon Musk, owner of Tesla, SpaceX and social media platform X (Twitter), has reached a staggering $442 billion, according to the latest estimate from Forbes magazine.

16/12/2024

This column profiles important historical events which took place during this week, 25 years ago, 50 years ago, 75 years ago and 100 years ago