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Call to Action: Support the BUGWU Strike Fund!

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!

The Amiens IWW at the City's International Women's Rights Day Demonstration

The Amiens IWW at the City's International Women's Rights Day Demonstration

The Amiens, France IWW branch went all out for their city's International Women's Rights Day. These photos showcase their banner and participation in the demonstration.

An Update from the Amiens IWW

An Update from the Amiens IWW

The IWW student-worker militants of Amiens expand their intervention into the broader class struggles of the city and nation. They have been busy hosting rallies and collaborating with student unions.

Link Roundup: Some Random Stuff

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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!

The Working Class is (Still) in Danger!

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The Working Class is (Still) in Danger!

With the 2024 US presidential election drawing closer, the right is once again ramping up its saber-rattling about civil war. While some argue that the threat of civil war is overblown, my fellow worker-organizers in education take the possibility very seriously.

Practical Research Tools for your own Workers' Self-Inquiry

Practical Research Tools for your own Workers' Self-Inquiry

To understand the exploitation and alienation we experience in our individual workplaces, we have to research widely and deeply about matters that, on their surface, have nothing to do with our jobs.

A Report on the Organization of an IWW Branch in Amiens, France

A Report on the Organization of an IWW Branch in Amiens, France

Conducting most of its campaigns in student circles, the union now welcomes young workers into its ranks. For the time being, the union was mainly involved in student struggles, but it was active and left its mark on the Amiens trade union scene.

A Union for ALL Education Workers!

A Union for ALL Education Workers!

We in the DC, Maryland, and Virginia Education Workers Organizing Committee (aka DMV EWOC) hope to unite all education workers in the Greater Washington, D.C. metropolitan area to form a militant labor solidarity network.

Location Change for Solidarity Not Silence Protest

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.

A Call to Action from Solidarity, not Silence!

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.

An Education Worker's Inquiry Survey Series

An Education Worker's Inquiry Survey Series

I am conducting research on capitalist exploitation of workers in the education industry. If you work in any job role in education, please consider answering some, or all, of the questions in this survey series.

Students Belong in the Union!

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Students Belong in the Union!

This essay was adapted from a pamphlet written by UK based members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) union for student-organizers. Given the upsurge in undergraduate student-worker organizing in the last few years, it is an essential development we must analyze.

How DCI and BOA fit with Steven Hasan’s B.I.T.E model

How DCI and BOA fit with Steven Hasan’s B.I.T.E model

The reason why groups like DCI and BOA are toxic and dangerous is that parents, teachers, and students don’t know the harm or damage being done physiologically, mentally, and psychologically until much later on in life.

An update - a shift in focus of the project

An update - a shift in focus of the project

Right now, we think the most productive path forward is to use our platform to bring together an informal community of revolutionary education workers.

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,

Spontaneous Combustion: Reflections on an Unplanned Workplace Direct Action

Spontaneous Combustion: Reflections on an Unplanned Workplace Direct Action

A report and reflection about a series of direct actions and attempts to form a union by staff at a charter school from a former employee. We welcome other workplace reports, including anonymous ones. Summer, 2022 The meeting went off the rails when I got a text from one of

Why I Quit Academe for a Coding Boot Camp

Why I Quit Academe for a Coding Boot Camp

With the tenure-track market stalled, a history Ph.D. was urged to pursue Plan B. Unfortunately, he says, the alt-ac career trajectory is broken too. We republish this piece by Zeb Larson, who now works in curriculum development, detailing his experiences in the job market during the Covid-19 pandemic. It

The Class Divide within Education

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The Class Divide within Education

This is the introduction to an upcoming series, The Industrialization of Education. It lays out our general analytical framework. Two ideals are struggling for supremacy in American life today: one is the industrial ideal dominating through the supremacy of commercialism, which subordinates the worker to the product and the machine;

Doctoral Training Is Ossified. Can We Reinvent It?

Doctoral Training Is Ossified. Can We Reinvent It?

Lessons from the short-lived Next Generation Humanities Ph.D. program. We republish this piece by Zeb Larson, originally published by the Chronicle of Higher Education, which tells the tale of a cooperative effort to transform graduate and post-doctoral education at Washington State University and other post-secondary institutions. It clearly illustrates

Proletarians or Professionals? A History from Below of Teacher Unionism in the United States

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Proletarians or Professionals? A History from Below of Teacher Unionism in the United States

This piece began as a research paper I created for a class that I took while working on my teacher certification in 2020. At first, it was meant to be a cut and dry, chronological history of the movement. I was working in-person for minimum wage at the height of

The Working Class is in Danger!

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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

An Education Workers' Self-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

The Industrialization of Education: Phase Three, 1992-Today

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The Industrialization of Education: Phase Three, 1992-Today

"This is a union busting tactic. All of this is. Vouchers, charter schools standardized testing, and teacher evaluation schemes were all created with two purposes in mind: destroy the teachers' unions and privatize education."

The Industrialization of Education: Phase Two, 1954-1975

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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

The Industrialization of Education: Phase One, 1870-1930

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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