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Declaring “Education Week,” Trump launched a sweeping attack on the Department of Education, with the aim of refashioning schooling in line with corporate and military interests.
The fascistic administration of Governor Greg Abbott, at the behest of Trump, is seeking to ensure that the approximately 1.6 million students attending public universities in Texas only come into contact with instructional material acceptable to the far right.
As a result of a wave of job and course cuts, school leavers are increasingly being told that the subjects and degrees they wished to study are no longer available.
Extensive tax exemptions handed to big business by successive governments over decades have deepened the country’s social crisis and undermined public education.
An inquiry, organized by workers and not corrupt union bureaucrats, is needed to arm workers with the knowledge they need to defend themselves and go on the offensive against the regime of corporate dictatorship in the workplaces which makes these deaths inevitable.
Workers must fight for workers’ power and workers’ control over production, harnessing the surplus created by new technologies to improve, not lower, the standard of living for the masses.
“The path forward lies in organizing independently—through the creation of rank-and-file committees democratically controlled by nurses themselves—to wage a genuine fight for your demands.”
For those reading this in Canada thinking this explosion happened in the US and thankfully it cannot happen here, they should look soberly at what our current prime minister is doing without any real pushback, and our experience at the National Steel Car plant in Hamilton, Ontario.
We are building a network of rank-and-file educators, students, parents, and workers to stop the spread of COVID-19 and save lives.
