Massive popular support for San Francisco teachers in first strike since 1979
On Monday, 6,400 educators went on strike against the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD), setting up picket lines at 120 sites across the city.
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Class Struggle USA: Major strikes erupt nationwide
The first month of 2026 has seen the eruption of major social struggles in the US, with mass protests against ICE killings and dictatorship developing into a growing, class-based strike movement.
Tom Hall•
Royal Oak High School students in Detroit suburb walk out to defend immigrants
Dozens of students staged a spirited protest in defense of immigrants at Royal Oak High School in suburban Detroit Monday.
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San Francisco teachers to walk out Monday against austerity in the richest tech enclave on the planet
The strike coincides with a growing wave of working class resistance, including a strike authorization vote last month by 35,000 Los Angeles educators.
Nancy Hanover•
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How New York City nurses can fight the sellout of their 4-week strike
On Tuesday, a day after the New York State Nurses Association announced sellout tentative agreements with Montefiore and Mount Sinai, the union leadership is violating its own bylaws to shut down the strike at the remaining hospital system, NewYork Presbyterian.
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1,200 autoworkers in Canada lose their jobs as GM ends third shift at Oshawa Assembly Plant
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.
Carl Bronski•
Warning strikes in Germany’s public transport: Break the control of the Verdi union bureaucracy! Build independent action committees!
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.
Transport Workers Action Committee•
Build the New York Healthcare workers Rank-and-File Committee to prevent a sellout and expand the nurses’ strike!
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.
New York Healthcare Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
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Essential reading
All over the world the trade unions, including those which were founded through bitter struggles led by socialist-minded workers, now play the leading role in enforcing the dictates of management.
In this lecture, delivered in Sydney, Australia in January, 1998, WSWS international editorial board chairman David North explains this profound transformation through an historical examination of the trade unions themselves.
The Soviet literacy campaign remains the largest and most successful in world history. It serves as an enduring demonstration of the extraordinary possibilities for reorganizing society in the interests of the working class on a planned, socialist basis.
This two-part article is a critique of the Democratic Socialists of America’s narrative of the teachers strike wave in 2018-19. It reviews the role of the teachers unions from West Virginia to Arizona, exposing the claims of “victory” by the unions and the DSA. It also assesses the DSA’s opportunistic “dirty break” with the Democratic Party and their role in collaborating with the unions to divert teachers by pressuring the powers-that-be.
This article reviews the significance of the Janus vs. AFSCME Supreme Court case. As an AFSCME’s lawyer warned the ruling elites during oral arguments, the collection of “agency fees” is routinely traded for a no-strike clause in union contracts. He warned, “Should those clauses disappear, employers will have chaos and discord on their hands.”
In line with the identity politics promoted by the Democratic Party and the pseudo-left, “abolitionist teaching” foments divisions among teachers and students based on race.
The origin of the term ethnomathematics is attributed to Brazilian postmodernist Ubiratan D’Ambrosio (1932-). It emphasizes “power relationships” and cultural relativism, downplaying “objective knowledge.”
After Trump provocatively called educators “loser teachers preaching socialism,” the AFT made no comment. Far from defending teachers against red-baiting, union president Randi Weingarten (annual salary above $500,000) agrees that “socialist” teachers have no business in the classroom. This report looks at some of the long and ugly history of the union’s anticommunism.
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