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The strike coincides with a growing wave of working class resistance, including a strike authorization vote last month by 35,000 Los Angeles educators.
The school year opens with educators in Australia confronting chronic underfunding, staff shortages, impossible workloads and rising levels of violence and distress, amid global militarism and attacks on democratic rights.
Nearly 2,000 educators are working under an expired contract, confronting a district that has weaponized a manufactured fiscal crisis to impose permanent austerity.
Spearheaded by the fascistic Trump administration, an eruption of militarism and domestic repression has shattered the post-World War II order and this is driving deeper attacks—led by the Albanese Labor government—throughout the universities.
The layoffs came the same week GM reported more than $12 billion in pre-tax earnings for 2025, along with plans to hike shareholder returns through dividend increases and a $6 billion stock buyback scheme.
The current nationwide strike shows the power transport workers have. But under the control of the Verdi union bureaucracy, it serves only to vent our anger and then sideline us.
On the one hand, the strike has won immense public support, but on the other, NYSNA is preparing a sellout on management's terms. The strike can be won, but only if healthcare workers take matters into their own hands.
Immediately levelling up new entrants and opposing unsafe workloads means asserting what is right and necessary against the profit interest of the private-equity billionaires at EP Group
We are building a network of rank-and-file educators, students, parents, and workers to stop the spread of COVID-19 and save lives.
