class struggle A Report from the UK IWW's TEFL Workers' Union The UK IWW's Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) Workers' Union is building power among usually isolated educators. We republish these updates about recent organizing victories and protests.
education history How Volksmusik Became Polka Music The cultural history of German American volksmusik and its exploitation—with insight into the intimate connections between the education and entertainment industries.
call to action Call to Action: Unwelcome Netanyahu Genocidal Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu is in Washington, D.C. from July 22 to 24. Educators and community members are mobilizing to oppose his welcome by our government. We need your help!
theory and strategy Against Professionalism! Professional hierarchies in educational workplaces exist to set groups of workers against each other in service of arbitrary definitions of professional conduct that are imposed by our employers.
inquiry An Education Workers' Self-Inquiry A scaffolded manual for building worker power in the education industry, along with some research resources that might help expedite the process.
class struggle Report from Amiens IWW on organizing the working-class against fascism With the tide of fascism rising rapidly in France and worldwide, the Amiens IWW set an example for unions everywhere.
announcement Get involved with the Angry Education Workers Our goal is to convene a collective of revolutionary education workers of all backgrounds. If you're interested in getting involved, this post will give you several options on how to get started
events You're Invited: Social Gathering with IWW DMV EWOC We are hosting a social gathering on Sunday, June 16, at 6:30pm in Columbia Heights. This will be a great chance for interested fellow education workers to connect with current IWW EWOC organizers.
call to action Student Strike! DMV High School Strike for Gaza - May 24 Students of all ages, teachers, families, and supportive community members are all welcome at McPherson Square in DC at 11am to demonstrate solidarity with Palestine by disrupting business as usual.
class struggle Amiens IWW is in the Streets for Trans Rights Unions that ignore the political fights of the working class at their own peril. The student-workers of the Amiens IWW point a way forward.
call to action Urgent Call to Action: Support the Palestine Solidarity Encampments! There has been an upsurge in student organizing to stop the genocide in Palestine. They are facing severe repression, and need our solidarity!
call to action An Important Update and Call to Action from Solidarity, not Silence! If you live in the DC region, you are invited to a documentary viewing and discussion panel to connect with other radical educators and engage in collective political self-education about Palestine.
call to action Call to Action from Jailhouse Lawyers Speak: Prison Strike 2024 Jailhouse Lawyers Speak, on behalf of other inside collectives, announces the 2024 SHUT ‘EM DOWN Abolition Demonstrations dedicated to advocating to end legalized slavery and dismantling the prison industrial slave complex (abolition).
class struggle A Quick Guide to Unionization for Charter School Workers Public school workers are not the only ones who need unions.
inquiry Behold, The Marching Arts Body! How Drum Corps International and Bands of America use spiritual and physical tactics akin to Dominionistic Christians and Scientologists
call to action Call to Action: Support the BUGWU Strike Fund! The Boston University Graduate Workers Union is under attack by the university administration. They are withholding pay from all strikers, and even many students who are not on strike. We need to go all out to support the strikers till victory!
music education Link Roundup: Some Random Stuff This week’s post is basically just a collection of calls to action, art pieces, short thoughts, and useful research resources from various community members mixed together. We hope you enjoy!
call to action Location Change for Solidarity Not Silence Protest The school board cancelled their meeting, so educators, students, and supportive community members are rallying nearby at the Courthouse Square Park in Rockville, Maryland, instead.
call to action A Call to Action from Solidarity, not Silence! This is a call to action from an ad hoc coalition of educators from revolutionary unions and other activist groups in the Washington DC area (commonly known as the DMV). We are engaged in a free speech fight to have educators suspended for pro-Palestine advocacy reinstated.
call to action Support Palestinian Journalists The Printing and Publishing Workers Union (IU 450) of the IWW is raising money on behalf of the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate. Details can't be shared but the PPWU folks are directly in touch with folks on the ground, so any money you send will have a real, concrete,
theory and strategy The Working Class is in Danger! Adapted from: https://www.angryworkers.org/2020/10/10/the-necessity-of-a-revolutionary-working-class-program-in-times-of-coup-and-civil-war-scenarios/ The working class is in danger The physical and armed attacks on protests, LGBTQIA+ folks, Black Americans, educators, and others make it urgent to discuss concretely the need for revolutionary change. This becomes even more urgent when we remind ourselves
inquiry An Education Workers' Self-Inquiry Adapted from Karl Marx’s pamphlet “A Workers’ Inquiry” for the 143rd anniversary of when it was first published in La Revue socialiste on April 20, 1880; Transcribed by Curtis Price, 1997. Full text Printable Booklet Version Who are we? We are a political art collective of radical education workers
education history The Industrialization of Education: Phase Two, 1954-1975 This three-part study of the education industry is by and for Angry Education Workers, a political art collective open to all instructional and support staff in schools, museums, libraries, and archives. The Industrialization of Education - printable booklet version Realignment and Recovery When the Great Depression slammed the brakes on
education history The Industrialization of Education: Phase One, 1870-1930 This three-part study of the education industry is by and for Angry Education Workers, a political art collective open to all instructional and support staff in schools, museums, libraries, and archives. The Industrialization of Education - printable booklet version Phase One, 1870-1930 Two ideals are struggling for supremacy in American
