Our aim is to bring together teacher activists internationally by recording the struggles such as teacher strikes of teaching unions and others against 'reforms' like teacher cuts which are standing in the way of truly creative and free education for the world's children. This site has been set up as a result of our book 'The Global Assault on Teaching, Teachers and their Unions: Stories for Resistance.''
Mahdi ‘Issa Mahdi Abu Dheeb
The jailed Bahraini teachers’ leader, Mahdi ‘Issa Mahdi Abu Dheeb is being refused medical treatment despite his failing health continue reading »
January 27 2012 | General |
A school in Birmingham, UK, was closed yesterday as workers at the school held a strike in protest against it becoming an academy.
January 26 2012 | General |
Zimbabwean teachers, nurses and doctors continue their week-long strike today, demanding poverty line pay for the lowest paid workers.
January 26 2012 | General |
Holland’s largest teachers union is on strike today against a bill that will increase teachers’ working hours and cut their holidays. They are also protesting against cuts to special needs education, a salary freeze and the introduction of performance-related-pay.
January 26 2012 | General |
Protests took place in the Spanish cities of Alicante and Valencia in defence of public education on Saturday.
January 23 2012 | General |
Hundreds of temporary teachers blocked Cairo’s Salah Salem highway and marched on their headquarters last week, demanding permanent appointments and bonuses, ahramnonline reports.
January 23 2012 | General |
“Dear Colleagues,
The neoliberal policies implemented in Europe (by the European Union, the governments, and the IMF), have dramatic consequences on public goods, on rights and on the life of workers in our countries. continue reading »
January 19 2012 | General |
A US school district has confiscated a number of critical books from its schools, after coming under pressure from the state to end its Mexican American studies programme.
January 19 2012 | General |
A Swedish ‘free-school’ has been put up for sale on an internet auction site.
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January 18 2012 | General |
Teachers in Bangladesh’s non-government schools are holding a strike demanding nationalisation of their jobs and a wage rise in line with the salaries of teachers in government primary schools.
January 17 2012 | General |
