(2022-02-22). Three San Francisco school board members recalled in special election. wsws.org The workers of San Francisco mostly abstained from the fight between the race-obsessed school board and the recall coalition of Democrats and charter school advocates.
(2022-02-22). UK higher education workers continue strikes over pensions, pay and conditions. wsws.org The lecturers' determination to fight is in sharp contrast to the UCU bureaucracy who have done everything to curtail action from the outset and want nothing more to see it ended with a rotten sell-out.
(2022-02-22). Italian students demand dignified education and an end to precarious labor for all. peoplesdispatch.org 
Italian students have organized a series of mass protests in cities across the country in response to worsening conditions in their education and the recent deaths of two students in work-related accidents…
(2022-02-22). UK lecturers and students speak as higher education strike enters second week. wsws.org "I think the marketisation of higher education is the biggest part of the picture of what we are fighting against and that's why we should find solidarity with the students because they are those paying the cost of this marketisation."
(2022-02-22). Black health amid the COVID-19 pandemic. america.cgtn.com 
It's Black History Month in the U.S. This year's theme, as designated by one African American research organization is Black health and wellness. It's a long-standing and critically important issue, one that's received a lot of attention during the COVID-19 pandemic.
(2022-02-22). Selected Articles: Archbishop Vigano's Important Message to Canadian Truckers. globalresearch.ca 
By Carlo Maria Viganà≤ is an archbishop of the Catholic Church who served as the Apostolic Nuncio to the United States fr…
(2022-02-22). US Centers for Disease Control withheld critical statistics on COVID-19 for more than a year. wsws.org The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has kept back large volumes of essential data on the pandemic that state and local public health departments could have used to save lives and reduce infections.
(2022-02-22). Richland, Wa. school board defies COVID regulations; community fights back. liberationnews.org 
On Feb. 15, the School Board of Richland, Washington voted to make masks optional for students and staff, in violation of Washington's statewide mask mandate.
(2022-02-22). IYSSE wins support at Australian university orientations from students opposed to war, "herd immunity" policies. wsws.org One first year student in the working-class city of Newcastle said: "Capitalism has some very obvious flaws, the 1 percent getting richer at the expense of everyone else. You end up looking for an alternative, and socialism is very enticing."
(2022-02-22). Condemn the Armed Forces of the Philippines for killing of children. fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following February 22 statement from the Communist Party of the Philippines. |
| Last February 8, counterinsurgency operating troops belonging to the Philippine Army's 20th Infantry Battalion fired their weapons indiscriminately on a group of peasants tending their coconut kiln (koprahan) in Barangay Roxas, Catubig, Northern Samar. Two children, including a 12-year old, Grade 6 student, were killed by soldiers. Another child was wounded. |
| The soldiers were part of a 30-man unit of the 20th IB that was conducting operations against a unit of the New People's…
(2022-02-21). TikTok joins Russia's higher educational institutions to bolster linguistic diversity. tass.com Users will be offered to learn more about multilingualism in Russia in an interactive form…
(2022-02-21). Canberra Freedom Convoy Demands, 'Sack Them All!'. asia-pacificresearch.com
(2022-02-21). Teachers Union Starts Strike in Buenos Aires. telesurenglish.net Demanding better working conditions, the Association of Middle and Higher Education (ADEMYS) started a 24-hour strike on Monday, when Buenos Aires begins face-to-face classes. | RELATED: | Last week, ADEMYS spokeswoman Marisabel Grau mentioned that the Buenos Aires City government headed by Horacio Rodriguez "offered absolutely no percentage of salary increase" to teachers. | "We cannot start classes without salary impro…
(2022-02-21). Left Voice covers for Biden and the unions on school openings. wsws.org Left Voice has issued a new program for "safe school reopenings," lining up with the homicidal policies of the American Federation of Teachers, the National Education Association and the ruling elite in the US and internationally.
(2022-02-21). 500 000 Vaccines Donated to Palestine by China, Egypt. telesurenglish.net According to Khaled Abdel-Ghaffar, Egypt's acting health minister and Minister of Higher Education, the vaccines are of local production through a partnership between Egypt's Holding Company for Biological Products and Vaccines (VACSERA) and Chinese biopharmaceutical company Sinovac. | RELATED: | Ghaffar noted the valuable work that Egypt has carried out to produce more than 30 million doses of the vaccine up unti…
(2022-02-21). Salt of the Earth and Foot Soldiers. dissidentvoice.org Context of this Article This article didn't just arise from nowhere. It is preceded by decades of my researching and writing about America's "corpocracy," or what I call the "Devil's Marriage" between the superior power elite of corporate America, particularly throughout eleven sectors of organized endeavor, and the subordinate power elite of government America in …
(2022-02-21). Israeli Politicians Aren't Corrupt Overall, Says Researcher, But What Does the Public Think? sputniknews.com Transparency International has ranked Israel the 36th least corrupt country out of 180 listed. Although the situation is not that bad, a local expert believes that changes are still needed.
(2022-02-21). Student bodies demand release of abducted research scholar in Balochistan. peoplesdispatch.org Following the abduction of Hafeez Baloch, a physics scholar at Quaid-e-Azam University in Balochistan, a series of protests have been witnessed across Balochistan demanding his safe release…
(2022-02-21). How You Can Debunk Atlantic Council's Anti-China "Uyghur Genocide" Lies in 5 Minutes. newatlas.report February 21, 2022 (The New Atlas) — The Atlantic Council has released a report claimed across the Western media to provide additional evidence of "genocide" in China's western region of Xinjiang. However, in less than 5 minutes of research it is possible to expose the report as propaganda built on existing, baseless claims coupled to …
(2022-02-21). Where did the Dependency Approach go? mronline.org 
Capitalism, it seems, had been deemed too messy a concept to provide much use to researchers in explaining phenomena.
(2022-02-21). Chinese researchers develop highly efficient perovskite solar cells. ecns.cn Chinese researchers have developed a type of perovskite solar cells (PSCs) with high power conversion efficiency.
(2022-02-21). What is Marxism-Leninism? Introducing a new series on The Science of Revolution. fightbacknews.org This is the beginning of a new series on Marxist-Leninist theory. Fight Back! News is publishing this series of short articles in the interest of furthering the critical task of fusing Marxism with the workers' movement. Marx stressed that the purpose of theory is to understand the world so as to change the world, and this series hopes to help give activists in the people's struggles a better grasp of these theoretical tools. But let's begin with an overview: when we say we are Marxist-Leninists, what does that mean? What is Marxism-Leninism, and why is it important? | In the essay Three Sources and Three Compone…
(2022-02-21). A Growing Wave Of Litigation Spurs Climate Action. popularresistance.org In France, three non-governmental organizations sued the oil company Total over alleged "inadequate" environmental and human rights assessments of its oil project in Uganda and Tanzania. In Australia, a student filed a consumer complaint with Ad Standards against the financial services organization HSBC for claiming to support the protection of the Great Barrier Reef despite its links to fossil fuel operations. In South Africa, three civil society organizations launched a case alleging that the government's plans to obtain new coal power threaten various constitutional rights. | These are just a handful of the hu…
(2022-02-21). Oakland ILWU. OEA, Students & Community Rally To Stop Privatization & Union Busting. indybay.org Hundreds of ILWU Longshoreman, OEA teachers, students, labor and community activists rallied against the privatization of the Port Of Oakland Howard Terminal to the GAP A's billionaire owner John Fisher for a stadium and 3,000 condos and also against the closure of public schools in Oakland.
(2022-02-21). Students protest increase in sexual violence and aggression in Belgian universities. peoplesdispatch.org On Tuesday, February 15, hundreds of students from universities across Belgium protested the spike in sexual violence in universities. Students along with groups such as Comac and the March 8 Collective participated in protest demonstrations in universities in Brussels, Louvain La Neuve, Bergen, Gent, Leuven, and other places. The protesters demanded the university authorities to curb sexual harassment on campuses and ensure that perpetrators are punished and victims heard. The Workers Party of Belgium (PTB/PVDA), RedFox movement, and the feminist group Marianne extended solidarity and support to the protesting s…
(2022-02-21). Students Say Yale, Stanford and MIT's Fossil Fuel Investments Are Illegal. truthout.org 
Students at five leading universities have filed legal complaints accusing their colleges of breaking a little-known law by investing in the fossil fuel companies responsible for the climate emergency. | The students from Yale, MIT, Princeton, Stanford and Vanderbilt wrote to the attorneys general of their respective states on Wednesday asking authorities to investigate breaches of the Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act, which requires universities to invest in a manner consiste…
(2022-02-21). Sri Lankan poet Ahnaf Jazeem jailed under anti-terror laws speaks with the WSWS. wsws.org The notorious Counter Terrorism and Investigation Department arrested Jazeem in May 2020, claiming that his poetry promoted extremism and falsely accused him of teaching extremism to his students.
(2022-02-21). Oakland workers, teachers: 'Stop the Port land grab and racist school closings!'. workers.org 
Oakland, California A crowd of Oakland longshore workers and teachers rallied Feb. 17 at City Hall to raise two demands: "Save Our Port," which is under attack, and "Save Our Schools," many of which are threatened with closure. The main organizer of the rally was Local 10 of the International . . . |
(2022-02-21). Canadian teacher sues Israel lobby group. electronicintifada.net Javier Davila fights back against B'nai Brith's false accusations of anti-Semitism.
(2022-02-21). Threatened Layoff Of 65 SFUSD High School Teachers At Board Meeting-Petition To Stop It. indybay.org The SFUSD school board is preparing to layoff 65 high school teacher in the district…