Educators Rank-and-File Committee (US)
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We are a network of educators, parents, and school worker, independent of the unions, fighting to stop the COVID-19 pandemic and defend public education.
Joined August 2021
Trump and Hegseth assembled the military brass, told them they will be fighting the enemy within, and that America cities will be training grounds for the use of deadly force. The army is being converted into a US version of Hitler’s brutal Waffen SS. 1/
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Trump administration celebrates the perpetrators of the Wounded Knee Massacre
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The decision by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is a warning: The lessons of Wounded Knee are not consigned to the past, but must urgently recalled as a present danger.
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Iowans protest following kidnapping of Des Moines superintendent by immigration Gestapo
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Protests have been held throughout the state following the abduction of Dr. Ian Roberts by ICE agents on Friday.
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State law requires Tennessee public school teachers to teach gun safety starting in kindergarten
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A separate state bill, passed in 2023, allows teachers to carry firearms in school as the “solution” to mass shootings.
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The deployment of troops to Portland comes just three days before the mysterious meeting of generals and admirals in Washington, D.C. called by Secretary of Civil War Hegseth. It is obviously related to Trump’s “Operation Dictatorship”.
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Trump’s deployment of troops to Portland, authorizing the use of deadly violence, is a criminal assault on the American people. Can there be any doubt that this government is engaged in a conspiracy to obliterate democratic rights and create a police state?
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Trump memorandum brands anti-fascism and opposition to capitalism as “domestic terrorism”
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By treating political beliefs as the “animating threads” of terrorism, NSPM-7 provides a pseudo-legal justification for the persecution of individuals and organizations on the basis of their politi...
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UK children on free school meals blocked from accessing vital curriculum subjects
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Children on free school meals are less likely to take up costlier subjects at GCSE level like music, geography and foreign languages than their better off counterparts.
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Fascist Steve Bannon denounces teachers as “terrorists” in tribute to Charlie Kirk
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Alongside defunding public education and a brutal campaign of intimidation, censorship, and firings against educators, the Trump administration is rolling out a new “patriotic” civic curriculum for...
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Under cover of “We Can’t Wait” campaign, California Teachers Association seeks to block united, statewide action
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Educators in Oakland and Sacramento in California have already been forced into tentative agreements paving the way for deep cuts, while teachers in San Francisco and Contra Costa are being made to...
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The Trump administration is establishing a presidential dictatorship, based on the military, police, paramilitary forces and fascist gangs. The Socialist Equality Party advances this revolutionary program to struggle against Trump and the degenerate oligarchy which he represents.
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Austin school district latest target in wave of Texas school closures and cutbacks
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The prospect of extensive school closures looms over the Austin Independent School District (AISD) after nearly a third of its schools received failing marks from the Texas Education Agency (TEA).
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Austin school district latest target in wave of Texas school closures and cutbacks
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The prospect of extensive school closures looms over the Austin Independent School District (AISD) after nearly a third of its schools received failing marks from the Texas Education Agency (TEA).
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The bankruptcy of the California Teachers Association’s “We Can’t Wait” campaign and the way forward for educators #cta #fightforschools #wecantwait #teachers
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Despite lofty claims of “historic unity” the bureaucracy is not preparing for unity and strength, but orchestrating another betrayal.
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As the WSWS predicted, the 1619 Project gave ammunition to state and federal efforts to police education, ban books and enforce nationalist curricula, including most recently Trump’s attack last week on the Smithsonian Institution.
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ICE arrests at Southern California schools terrorize students and parents at start of school year
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ICE has arrested parents and students in at least ten documented cases, an escalation of repression that is being deployed against the entire working class.
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How teachers can fight to defend public education!
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Educators must take the lead in a working-class counter-offensive against the fascist president’s attack on democratic and social rights.
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US Supreme Court greenlights destruction of Department of Education
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In a decision with far-reaching implications for democratic rights and public education, the US Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration to proceed with mass firings at the Department...
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US Supreme Court greenlights destruction of Department of Education
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In a decision with far-reaching implications for democratic rights and public education, the US Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration to proceed with mass firings at the Department...
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Letter from a rank-and-file Chicago educator to teachers in Philadelphia and California
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An educator urges his counter-parts in other cities to draw the lessons from the betrayal in Chicago and wage a counter-offensive against the Democrats and Trump.
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