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New Zealand teachers announce strike for May 29
14th May 2019
New Zealand's primary and secondary teachers, though they are in separate unions, have voted to conduct a joint one-day strike on May 29...
African teachers unions are on the frontline of fights for democracy
2nd May 2019
While political upheavals in Africa have been widely reported, we hear little about the role of unions, including teachers unions. Yet as...
International Conference on Teachers, Unions in Greece
30th April 2019
An international conference, intended to tap resources and knowledge of researchers and activists to help build a global network of...
Resisting Dispossession: New Jersey Gives Away Camden Public Schools
22nd April 2019
This article, written by Keith E. Benson, president of the Camden Education Association, describes a policy New Jersey imposed on residents...
Church of England school chain in fight with UK teachers
3rd April 2019
A struggle in Bradford, a city of significant size in the UK, will sound familiar to many teacher union activists fighting similar battles...
National teachers' strike in the Netherlands for education funding
22nd March 2019
Teachers in the Netherlands, from two unions, representing primary and secondary school teachers and university lecturers, joined together...
New to the Research Archives: "Grit" globally, Brazil's early childhood teachers
8th March 2019
The Research Archive has two additions that we hope will be of use to researchers and activists globally.“True Grit? Making a Scientific...
Oakland, CA teachers strike for their community, receive "solidarity from below"
26th February 2019
In starting this website, Mary Compton hoped to inspire "solidarity from below" of teachers and their unions to resist and reverse the...
The Mexican teachers' movement: Two additions to the Research Archive
21st February 2019
Two recently published articles analyzing the sources of strength of the Mexican teachers’ movement have been added to the Research Archive...
Corporate control of education with technology: A chilling global project
16th February 2019
[Editor's note: This posting contains excerpts of a blog written by Alison McDowell, a parent in Philadelphia, who describes what and how...
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...