political education 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.
News 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.
News 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.
News 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.
activism 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.
activism 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.
activism 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.
education 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.
education 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.
education 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
education Featured The Class Divide within Education This is the introduction to the upcoming second edition of our text, 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
