(2022-01-28). Israel's labour court bans teachers from striking in opposition to soaring Omicron infections. wsws.org Teachers and educators at all public kindergartens and schools, excluding special education schools, had been set to hold a protest strike yesterday.
(2022-01-28). Kuku Yalanji woman Pat O'Shane: 'I'm fired up about education, injustice and sovereignty'. greenleft.org.au Distinguished Kuku Yalanji woman Pat O'Shane is running for Socialist Alliance in the seat of Leichhardt. A retired barrister and a former New South Wales magistrate, she spoke to Alex Bainbridge about what fires her up and why she decided to contest the federal election.
(2022-01-28). Riverside, California, school bus driver speaks out against mass infection in schools. wsws.org Since December 2020, educational facilities have accounted for 45.7 percent of all reported COVID-19 outbreaks in Riverside.
(2022-01-28). Why Is Ali the Last American Hero? Who Else Is There? juancole.com 
By Robert Lipsyte | — ( Tomdispatch.com ) — At least once a week, a stranger writing a book, magazine article, newspaper feature, or blog; representing a documentary film, radio serial, or podcast; researching a paper for middle school, high school, or college asks me for an interview about Muhammad Ali. I'm on the short …
(2022-01-28). People who use drugs demand harm-reduction strategies. workers.org 
By AEzra El, Devin Cole and Princess Harmony Roughly five-and-a-half minutes. Statistically speaking, that's the interval between every life lost in the United States to a fatal overdose. Science March, Boston, March 2017.WW Photo: Steve Kirschbaum. In the past several years, we have seen a radical increase in the rate . . . |
(2022-01-28). Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin removes last remaining pandemic safety measures, declares state "open for business" wsws.org Youngkin has eliminated worker, student, and patient COVID-19 protections, while also making Virginia the latest Republican-led state to begin the process of banning "divisive concepts" in the classroom.
(2022-01-28). Educators and students around the world deepen fight to stop the spread of COVID-19. wsws.org The wave of educator and student opposition to school reopenings continues to spread across the globe as capitalist governments ever more openly adopt policies to deliberately infect society with COVID-19.
(2022-01-28). Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa. wsws.org One-day national strike across public sector in France over pay and pensions as wave of strikes continues in healthcare; South African Clover dairy workers' strike against job and pay cuts continues into tenth week, joined by other affected sectors; Lebanese teachers begin indefinite walkout against deteriorating conditions and for higher pay…
(2022-01-28). Union trying to cancel South Australian teachers' strike against dangerous school reopening. wsws.org The union is trying to prevent even a token one-day strike, on the basis of "progress" from the government that amounts to nothing.
(2022-01-27). Environmental education is falling short. Activism can help. nationofchange.org n an environmental studies class in a secondary school in a South African township, the teacher takes the students outside into the sunny fall morning. She shows them how to plant a tree and ensure it survives. The students seem captivated as each of them plants their own sapling in the ground outside the school; …
(2022-01-27). How the U.S. Transportation System Fuels Inequality. inequality.org
(2022-01-27). Why Are We Torching Our Best Tool to End Child Poverty? inequality.org
(2022-01-27). COVID to be Declared Endemic by Year's End in Thailand. asia-pacificresearch.com
(2022-01-27). Research Reveals Best Ways to Obtain 'Super Immunity' Against COVID-19 Variants. sputniknews.com The international scientific community and the WHO still recommend vaccination with available and officially approved coronavirus vaccines as the best way to curb the spread of the virus, especially in light of the emergence of increasingly infectious and even more lethal strains.
(2022-01-27). Bombshell: CDC No Longer Recognizes the PCR Test As a Valid Method for Detecting "Confirmed Covid-19 Cases"? globalresearch.ca Smoking Gun: The CDC Says that the PCR Test is Invalid. Does not differentiate between Covid-19 and Seasonal Influenza. Does not detect or identify SARS-CoV-2 and its variants. If the PCR test is invalid the 260 Million "Confirmed Covid-19 Cases" collected Worldwide are meaningless. There is no Pandemic.
(2022-01-27). "Bastille 2022": Building a Worldwide Movement Against "Corona Tyranny" globalresearch.ca Bastille 2022 pertains to the restoration of fundamental rights. It seeks to reverse the criminal COVID-19 agenda which in the course of the last two years has triggered economic, social and political chaos Worldwide, coupled with bankruptcies, unemployment, mass poverty and despair.
(2022-01-27). Refugees are being housed in infested hotels by the Home Office's slum landlords. thecanary.co 
This article is part of a joint investigation with anti-capitalist research group Refugees in London are being housed by the Home Office in run-down, insect-infested hotels. Meanwhile, private housing providers are raking it in. | Corporate Watch spoke to an Iraqi Kurdish family who arrived in the UK in November 2020. Since then, the family — who wish to remain anonymous — have been put up by the Home Office in disgusting conditions in several hotels in London with their six children. They told Corporate Watch that — aside from the insect in…
(2022-01-27). Tariq Ali: 'Democracy is largely a set of rituals now'. canadiandimension.com 
Tariq Ali speaking at the 2013 Subversive Festival in Zagreb. Photo from Tariq Ali is an internationally known public intellectual, columnist and political activist. Born in pre-partition India in 1943, Ali studied at Oxford University and was elected as students' union president there. He has been involved in political activism since then. He was one of the most prominent figures of the civil society coalition against the United States' war in Vietnam. He was also there at the forefront of agitation against the war…
(2022-01-27). Why are D.C. cops recruiting and deputizing high school students? liberationnews.org 
The DC police sees poor Black youth as the target demographic for criminalization and surveillance. At the same time, they become the prey of MPD's coercive recruitment and indoctrination practices…
(2022-01-27). Why are DC cops recruiting and deputizing high school students? liberationnews.org The DC police sees poor Black youth as the target demographic for criminalization and surveillance. At the same time, they become the prey of MPD's coercive recruitment and indoctrination practices…
(2022-01-27). Youth on Italy's streets are fighting for their lives. peoplesdispatch.org After a young student Lorenzo Parelli died in a working accident, students all over Italy have expressed their discontent and taken to the streets against precarity and lack of future.
(2022-01-27). West Coast educators and students hold meeting on the fight to pause in-person learning at unsafe schools. wsws.org On Sunday, the West Coast Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committees held an online meeting in opposition to the ruling class drive to keep schools open amid the spread of the Omicron variant.
(2022-01-27). Thursday 1/27: #Cancel Student Debt! Town Hall on Ending Student Debt Across the Nation. indybay.org Virtual town hall via Zoom…
(2022-01-27). Palestinian Academic Suspended by UK University Following Israeli Lobby Pressure. orinocotribune.com 
By Palestine Chronicle Staff — Jan 24, 2022 | British University Sheffield Hallam has suspended a Palestinian Ph.D. student from teaching, following a smear campaign by the Israeli lobby, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. | Shahd Abusalama, a Palestinian activist, writer and artist from Gaza, announced on her social media that she was suspended from a teaching position at her department following an intense online campaign by pro-Israel supporters who accused her of 'antisemitism'. | I cannot describe what I feel in words, receiving this proactive support and solidarity from people I know o…
(2022-01-27). Australian school guidelines detail dangerous COVID-19 conditions. wsws.org The documents underscore the unsafe conditions that await school workers and students—unless opposed, the return to face to face teaching will inflict entirely preventable mass infection and serious illness and death.