Australia: Labor accuses schools of fraud to justify disability education cuts
More than 300 independent schools have been forced to repay $12 million in disability funding already, forcing the sacking of teachers and support staff.
Carolyn Kennett•
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UK National Education Union closes down strike ballot, allowing Labour government to impose below inflation deal
The trade union bureaucracy promotes the dangerous illusion that the replacement of Starmer with Burnham represented a step change to the left and provides “hope”, that the Labour Party will listen, and that Burnham is “on our side".
Tom Pearce, Tania Kent•
Australia: Empty launch of Thriving Kids underscores Labor’s assault on children with disabilities
What the Albanese government actually launched on October 1 was a helpline and a website—no therapies, no allied health professionals, no individualised plans.
Carolyn Kennett•
The IIT Bombay suicide and the crisis facing India’s youth
The suicide of Sahil Wakode, a Dalit student at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, has exposed the brutal institutional atmosphere behind India's most celebrated educational institutions, and sparked militant student protests.
Kranti Kumara•
Tania Kent•
Ioan Petrescu•
Kaye Tucker•
Committee for Public Education•
Phyllis Steele, Renae Cassimeda•
Pennsylvania USPS workers form rank-and-file committee: “We call for a struggle that unifies all postal workers”
The postal service—a product of the American Revolution—has been systematically bled over decades by both Democratic and Republican parties. We have been forced to operate like a profit-making company despite the clear intention by the Founding Fathers to have the mail system as a universal right to all in the name of having an informed society able to fight back against tyranny.
Southern Pennsylvania Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
“Attacks on postal workers are accelerating, and the official channels have proven incapable of stopping them”
St. Paul USPS workers found Rank-and-File Committee
The future of the Postal Service will not be decided in our favor if workers remain isolated and passive. Our strength lies in our unity.
St. Paul Processing and Distribution Center Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
Postal Workers: Refuse to withhold ballots! Defend mail-in voting and the post office!
We refuse to carry out any order to withhold, delay or “verify” mail-in ballots. We will not be the instrument of the disenfranchisement of the American people.
USPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
Railroaders: Break the isolation of the National Steel Car strike! Refuse to handle NSCX cars! For a united, cross-border struggle across the railroad industry!
The struggle at National Steel Car cuts directly across the national divisions that the corporations, governments and union bureaucracies are trying to impose on workers.
The Railroad Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
Health Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
Pierre Lajeunesse•
National Steel Car Rank-and-File Committee•
Industrial Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
USPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
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