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New addition to the Research Archives: Memorializing Mary Compton 

6th January 2019

The newest addition to the Research Archives is a  full event report written by the National Union of Teachers about its conference "...

Los Angeles teachers union contract dispute intensifies 

12th December 2018

The second largest teachers union local in the US, the United Teachers of Los Angeles, (UTLA) is engaged in an intense campaign to win a...

Striking Lithuanian teachers ask for support  

9th December 2018

On November 12, teachers in 5 schools in Lithuania declared an open-ended strike, following educational reforms that worsened teachers‘...

Violating human rights: Educating children with disabilities 

28th November 2018

The United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has published a strong report criticizing the Spanish educational...

European Parliament limits aid to for-private schools 

22nd November 2018

In a victory for teachers, their unions, and education activists globally, the European Parliament has passed a resolution that reinforces...

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...

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