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Trump’s Attack on Education

July 10, 2025

Introduction As part of the Trump administration’s overall strategy of gutting federal programs and social …

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Oakland Teachers’ Strike Called Off

May 5, 2025

On the morning of Tuesday, April 29th, Oakland educators received an email from their union …

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More Pain From Budget Cuts Will Hit Soon

May 4, 2025

As Trump has issued executive order after executive order and his billionaire bureaucrats have cut …

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Educators Protect Students From Government Attacks

April 20, 2025

These are uncertain times: there are mass layoffs across job sectors, budget cuts, and deportations …

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When Students Are Under Attack… Stand Up, Fight Back

April 12, 2025

The detentions of Mahmoud Khalil, a former Columbia University graduate student, and Rumeysa Ozturk, a …

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Thousands of California Educators to Lose Jobs

April 11, 2025

Each year on March 15th, educators across the state of California learn if they have …

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The Truth about Transgender Support at University of the Pacific

March 3, 2025

University of the Pacific (UOP) has agreed to host a right-wing, anti-trans speaker in March, …

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So-Called “Anti-Communist” Laws are Attacks on Workers and Oppressed People

December 23, 2024

A new bill attacking freedom of expression in public education passed in the U.S. House …

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December 2, 1964: The Occupation of Sproul Hall and the Berkeley Free Speech Movement

December 2, 2024

Sixty years ago today, on December 2, 1964, students on the Berkeley campus of the University of California took over Sproul Hall, the university’s main administrative building …

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Argentinian Students and Workers Rise against Right-Wing Policies

October 28, 2024

In Argentina, massive student protests are being held against Milei’s cuts to public universities. …

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France: Start of the School Year: Okay Class, Let’s Struggle!

September 4, 2024

September 2, 2024 editorial of the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France, translated from French …

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Lead in the Water of Our Oakland Schools

September 3, 2024

Lead has been found in Oakland schools’ water, and the response by school district officials has been inadequate. …

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Johns Hopkins Privatizes Police Force Against Opposition by Students and Neighbors

August 30, 2024

In a controversial move, Johns Hopkins University, one of Baltimore’s most elite institutions, began a push in early …

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Billionaires Won’t Save Us From Health Inequality

August 5, 2024

Donations from billionaires are not a substitute for having a system that works for all of us. …

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New Student Loan Relief Makes No Dent in Crisis

April 29, 2024

Biden announced a cancellation of $7.4 billion of student loan debt, but he is still part of the system that produced that debt in the first place …

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Vanderbilt Students Protest Suppression

April 4, 2024

Last Tuesday, March 26, police arrested four students and as many as twenty more were …

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Standardized Tests Don’t Fix Education Inequality

March 28, 2024

For the first time, the college entrance exam SAT will be fully online, in a …

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Durham School Staff Defy the Threat of Wage Cuts

February 9, 2024

When Durham School System announced that 1,300 “classified staff,” (janitors, IT workers, teachers’ aides, and …

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Oakland School Communities Hold Teach-In for Palestine

December 15, 2023

In response to the state of Israel’s horrific, genocidal brutality against the Palestinian people, hundreds …

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California State University Faculty Go On Strike

December 11, 2023

California State University faculty went on strike for better working and learning conditions. …

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School Libraries Under Threat in Houston

August 8, 2023

Houston Independent School District is converting school libraries into student discipline centers. …

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Florida’s Revised History Curriculum: Same Old Racism in New Form

July 31, 2023

Florida’s new standards for African American History downplay the historical oppression of Black people, even saying that slavery benefited slaves. …

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Victory in the Anthropology Library

July 27, 2023

The occupation of the U.C. Berkeley Anthropology Library ended last week on Monday, July 17, …

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A Pitiful Reduction of Student Debt

July 21, 2023

If you were only reading the bombastic headlines from the past few weeks, you might …

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Oakland Teachers’ Strike — A Balance Sheet

May 23, 2023

On May 4 teachers in Oakland, California, went on a seven-day strike that ended with …

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The UC Berkeley Anthropology Library Occupation

May 11, 2023

For over two weeks now, University of California (UC) Berkeley students, faculty, and community members …

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Academic Workers Strike in New Jersey

April 14, 2023

On Monday morning, nearly 9,000 tenured professors, part-time lecturers and graduate student workers went on …

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Student Loan Debt SCOTUS Case Update

March 24, 2023

The Supreme Court is hearing a case to determine whether or not Biden’s student loan …

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Los Angeles School Staff and Teachers on Strike

March 22, 2023

On Tuesday, school staff represented by Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Local 99, in the …

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Students Protest DeSantis’s Attacks on Academic Freedom

March 9, 2023

Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida is creating a blueprint for reactionary control of public colleges …

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UC Berkeley Students and Faculty Occupy Library to Keep It Open

March 1, 2023

This past week, after the University of California (UC) Berkeley administration announced plans to close …

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Oakland Schools Saved From Closure…For Now…

January 25, 2023

On Wednesday, January 11th, the School Board for the Oakland Unified School District voted to keep the five schools open that were originally under plans to be shut down at the end of this school year. …

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Largest Ever Higher Education Strike in UK

December 12, 2022

In November, an estimated 70,000 researchers, academics and administrators went on strike at 150 different …

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Graduate Student Workers in University of California System Launch Statewide Strike

November 15, 2022

On Monday, November 14th, about 48,000 unionized academic workers across the University of California’s 10 …

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4th Baltimore Area School Bomb Scare in 3 Weeks – Children’s Mental Health is Suffering Under Capitalism

October 29, 2022

On Wednesday, October 12, faculty, staff, and students at Chadwick Elementary School were rushed from …

Education

Organizing to Stop Oakland School Closures — a perspective from an Oakland, CA elementary school teacher

May 5, 2022

On April 29, Oakland public school teachers went on a one-day Unfair Labor Practice strike …

Education

Florida Politicians Trying to Erase LGBTQ+ People

March 6, 2022

A discriminatory House Bill 1557 passed the Florida House of Representatives on March 1. It is appropriately called the “Don’t Say Gay” bill by critics because it restricts any discussions about LGBTQ+ …

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CA College of the Arts Staff Go on Strike – College Refuses to Negotiate Contract

March 5, 2022

Staff at the California College of the Arts (CCA) recently went on a four-day strike …

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Oakland School Board Vote – Not the Last Word on School Closures

February 20, 2022

On Friday, February 18th, the majority of the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) Board voted, for the third time, to close and merge schools in the next two years …

Education

Students Fight for Safe Schools across the U.S.

February 12, 2022

From coast to coast, we have seen students list their demands for safe schools and stage walkouts, refusing to accept the breadcrumbs the people in power have tossed them. …

Education

Puerto Rico: Teachers Fight for Higher Wages

February 10, 2022

On Feb. 4, more than five thousand teachers took to the streets in Puerto Rico …

Education

Oakland: The Fight Against School Closures Grows

February 9, 2022

The struggle to keep the school doors open may not be easy, but it is winnable. But it will take an even larger, more organized and continued mobilization by Oakland parents, students, teachers and staff to win this fight. …

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Oakland School Closures Spark Wave of Protests

February 2, 2022

The Oakland School Board meeting on Jan. 31, 2022 was attended by over 1,800 community …

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Oakland School District Threatens to Shut Down 16 Schools Within Two Years

January 30, 2022

While there may be some people who look at our schools and see them as a money-making opportunity, these schools are our schools. It is not their decision to make — it is ours. We must link up across school communities to stand side by side and say, “no school closures!” …

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Oakland Students Stand Up For Safety and Face Backlash – Courtesy of Kamala Harris

January 29, 2022

Punitive measures against truancy set in place by Kamala Harris, are now being leveled against students in Oakland who have had the audacity to demand that their schools provide real safety protection. …

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An Oakland School Teacher – On the Pandemic Frontlines

January 20, 2022

The first few months of this school year were exhausting and demoralizing for educators, as …

Education

Oakland: Report from the Classroom

November 14, 2021

My students who were sick were never tested for coronavirus, they eventually returned to school after 10 days, and our classroom was no longer deemed an outbreak. Students deserve safe schools now. …

Education

Update from an Oakland teacher: “Our safety depends on us”

October 13, 2021

It is now almost the middle of October, and we’ve been back at school since …

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Safety in Oakland Schools: The Fight Continues

September 28, 2021

Six weeks into the school year, and many COVID safety measures are still not in place. …

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Oakland Schools: Safety Is Up to Us

September 9, 2021

If the district is going to provide every school the safety measures being demanded, it’s going to be because they were fought for. …

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