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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...
UK higher education faculty, US teachers strike, express solidarity
6th March 2018
University and College Union (UCU) members in 61 universities in the UK have voted to and undertaken strike action on 22-23, 26-28 Feb...
Student interns strike across Quebec, Canada, protesting unpaid labor
2nd March 2018
Students from Montreal, Sherbrooke, Trois-Rivières, Gatineau and Laval conducted industrial action on 20 February to demand pay for all...
West Virginia teachers organize state-wide strike over wages, health care
1st March 2018
Governments can make strikes illegal, but they can’t stop them when workers are fed up and organized to build and maintain solidarity. ...