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Hundreds of teachers in KwaZulu-Natal denied wages due them 

16th November 2018

While teachers in the global North fight for living wages, teachers in the global South must often fight to receive the pay they have...

Letter from Brazil: The freedom of teachers and democracy will prevail! 

7th November 2018

November 5, 2011There will be a fight against the return of the “Years of Terror.” (Editor’s note: This is what the most repressive period...

Brazil's election - and after: Repression met by resistance 

29th October 2018

A predictor of repression and resistance that we will likely see from Brazil’s teachers, students, and civil society after the election...

Iranian teachers strike: “Bread, Work, Freedom, Teaching Liberation”  

18th October 2018

On October 14,  teachers in dozens of cities throughout Iran went on strike by showing up at work but not entering their classrooms.  They...

Costa Rica’s government calls for “volunteer” strikebreakers 

16th October 2018

Two education unions have been on strike for weeks now in Costa Rica, in an action that the government has declared illegal.Teachers joined...

World Development Report 2019 stays its destructive course 

13th October 2018

After the  World Bank issued a draft of the 2019 World Development Report,  General Secretary of the international confederation of...

Trinational Conference to be November in Orizaba, Veracruz, Mexico  

22nd September 2018

Teachers, researchers, students, and education activists from Mexico, the United States and Canada who are interested in the defense of...

Saudi-led coalition airstrike killing children due to "mistakes" 

9th September 2018

The coalition of governments led by Saudi Arabia has issued a statement the airstrike that killed at least 26 children and wounded at least...

September 4 is #RedforEd day in the U.S.  

2nd September 2018

As teachers in the U.S. conduct work stoppages and become more politically engaged to protect public education and the teaching profession...

New additions to the Research Archive: Teacher union reform and teachers' digital resistance to corporate education 

29th August 2018

Two articles have been added to the Research Archive. In "From neoliberalism to structural racism: Problem framing in a teacher activist...

Guyana teachers union readies for industrial action 

24th August 2018

The Guyana teachers union (GTU) is preparing  for industrial action.  Though negotiations with the government are deadlocked over a wage...

New Zealand teachers strike, closing 3/4 of state primary schools 

17th August 2018

New Zealand school teachers went on strike on August 15 for the first time in 24 years, challenging the Labour government’s plans for a...

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