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Philippine teacher leaders receive death threats, ask for global help
3rd February 2019
Activists in the Philippines teachers organization, the Alliance of Concerned Teachers, have received death threats, and the General...
Global strike wave: #RedforEd spreads in US. Zimbabwe teachers vote to strike
1st February 2019
Showing the new global resistance of teachers and their unions to reforms that have wrecked public education throughout the world, teachers...
Urgent call for support of China's Jasic workers and student supporters
24th January 2019
We print here an urgent update about repression faced by Jasic workers forming a union and their student supporters.By 24 January 2019,...
Education resistance: Activist media in struggles for public education
20th January 2019
The newest addition to the Research Archives is a special issue of Postcolonial Directions in Education, (Volume 7 Issue 2, 2018). The...
Los Angeles teachers union wins massive public support in its strike
17th January 2019
United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA), the second largest teachers union in the U.S., is engaged in a strike against Los Angeles Unified...
Tunisian secondary school teachers resume protests
6th January 2019
Secondary school teachers in Tunisia resumed protests on 2 January 2019 as schools reopened after the two-week winter break. Teachers’...
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...