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São Paulo teachers: "Não Tem Arrego! (We will not waiver)”  

23rd April 2018

More than 100,000 teachers take to the streets daily, to defeat Mayor Dória and stop attacks on the São Paulo municipal pension...

Kenya higher education lecturers on strike 

22nd April 2018

Universities Academic Staff Union (UASU) members, representing lecturers in higher education in Kenya, have been on strike for almost two...

Teacher, union, human rights activist attacked in Nochixtlán, Oaxaca Mexico 

7th April 2018

We reprint here a report and urgent call for action from Mexican teachers, parents, and human rights activists. Graphic photos of the...

Mexican teachers, CNTE, gather support from the global North 

6th April 2018

As reported here previously, a delegation from the UK’s National Education Union met with Mexican unions in the National Coordination of...

Buenos Aires teachers strike April 5 

5th April 2018

Buenos Aires public school teachers and administrators struck on April 5 with  education workers from private education institutions.They...

Making global teacher solidarity real 

1st April 2018

As her union meets in its annual conference, we join in paying tribute to Mary Compton, whose passing “robbed us of someone who worked with...

US teachers show their power in walkouts about education's underfunding 

30th March 2018

Teachers in the US in states that have Republican-controlled legislatures that have starved schools for funds are mobilizing in what can...

Turkish teacher unionists taken into custody 

22nd March 2018

Executive officers of Tüm Bel-Sen (Union of All Municipality Civil Servants) and Egitim-Sen (Education and Science Workers' Union) in Izmir...

Iranian teacher union activist arrested at his school 

21st March 2018

A leading activist in the Tehran branch of the Iranian Teachers' Trade Association (ITTA), Mohammad Habibi,  was arrested at his school on...

Slovenia's teachers close schools in walkout 

20th March 2018

A walkout by Slovenia’s teachers on March 14 closed the nation’s schools for the second time in two months.  The previous national work...

West Virginia inspires US teachers: Oklahoma next? 

12th March 2018

In this livestream of a March 10 panel, West Virginia teachers describe how they organized their state-wide walkout. Their struggle has...

In tribute to Mary Compton 

10th March 2018

      Posted here are a few of the many tributes to Mary Compton       Mary Compton, who has died of cancer aged 67, was an inspirational...

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