Marxism & Education is the journal of Class Struggle Education Workers and the continuation of the CSEW Newsletter. The CSEW is a militant opposition tendency that began in New York-area education unions and has since expanded to include activists in related areas. As we have often remarked, education is where issues of race and class come together, along with the struggles against all forms of social oppression. Our intention in launching M&E is to provide a platform for analysis of educational and related social and political issues. As Marx and Engels insisted, every serious class struggle is a political struggle. That is doubly true of education, which is constantly targeted by the ruling class, particularly over the last period of a concerted capitalist attack on public education.
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Class Struggle Education Workers is fraternally allied with the Internationalist Group, U.S. section of the League for the Fourth International, and with similar union tendencies linked to other sections of the LFI, the Comitê de Luta Classista in Brazil and the Comités de Lucha Proletaria in Mexico. In this issue, we have included articles reflecting the work of our comrades in hard-fought union struggles in those countries and emphasizing the need for international workers solidarity. Marxist clarity is vital to waging those battles. And of course, as Marx insisted in his famous 11th Thesis on Feuerbach, not only must we analyze and interpret the world, “the point is to change it.”