After Brutal Repression, the Teachers’ Struggle in Argentina Continues

After weeks, the teachers struggle in Argentina continues despite brutal repression of an “itinerant school.”

Argentina: Massive Teacher’s March on Eighth Day of Strike

The teachers' strikes were sparked after unions and local governments failed to reach an agreement on salary negotiations. Each year, teachers’ salaries are renegotiated, allowing their income to match inflation.

School Districts to Close Due to Women’s Strike

Chapel Hill-Carrboro, a North Carolina School District and Alexandria Public Schools (Alexandria, VA) recently put out school closure statements because so many teachers called out for the International Women's Strike.

Argentine Teachers’ Union Votes to Strike on International Women’s Day

Teachers vote a work stoppage on March 8, International Women's Day.

Who is to Blame for Betsy DeVos?

On Tuesday, Betsy DeVos was confirmed as Secretary of Education. She is entirely unqualified and seeks to dismantle public education as we know it. Who is to blame for her confirmation?

Betsy DeVos: The Anti-Public School Secretary of Education

Betsy DeVos is, without a doubt, the least qualified, most anti-public school person to ever be nominated as Secretary of Education. Never having worked in, attended or studied public schools, her education experience is in lobbying to dismantle public education.

Public Education in Capitalism: A Marxist Perspective

What do Marx and Marxism have to say about education? How can teachers use Marxism to help frame the way we think about our role in the classroom and in society, and how can we fight against neoliberal attacks as well as for the education system teachers and students deserve?

Family, Capitalism and School Choice in the Republican Platform

In capitalist society, family is not just based on love and kinship, but rather on an economic necessity, as demonstrated by the Republican platform. Particularly, the discussion on school choice highlights the way the government shifts the burden of providing quality public services to the family.

Behind the Olympics: Crisis, Corruption and a Coup

Left Voice speaks with Carol Cacau, currently running for Rio de Janeiro City Council as a representative of the socialist Revolutionary Workers’ Movement (MRT). She describes the current situation in Rio, in the midst of the Olympic Games.