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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Lessons of the Teachers Revolt (August 2018)
Teacher Revolts Across U.S. (April 2018)
Mark Lance, New Orleans Schools: Test Lab for War on Public Education (March 2016)
“Slave Market-Based Education Reform” in NOLA (March 2016)
Interview with Vera John-Steiner on Vygotsky and Language, Marxism and Education, Malcolm X and Other Topics, Part 1 (January 2017)
Lilian Pollak (1915-2016)
CSEW/UFT, Keep I.C.E. Cops Out of Our Schools (February 2017)
CSEW/UFT, NYC Schools Must Be A Sanctuary
For Immigrant and All Students (December 2016)
CSEW/UFT, Betsy DeVos: Trump’s Voucher Vulture (January 2017)
Unions Protest I.C.E. Cops in the Courts (December 2017)
CUNY Internationalist Clubs, CUNY-Wide Conference in Defense of Immigrants Held at Grad Center (Spring 2018)
From the National University of Mexico, Greetings to the CUNY-Wide Conference in Defense of Immigrants (March 2018)
Free Market Racism: Segregated Schools, Gentrified Neighborhoods (August 2018)
Bed-Stuy: Stop the Charter Invasion! (August 2018)
Stop Blocking Immigrant Students From Graduating! (August 2018)
A Marxist Program to Fight for Integrated Quality Public Education (August 2018)
CUNY Students and Faculty Demand: CIA Out of CUNY Now! (March 2018)
CUNY Contingents Unite, The Taylor Law: What It Is and How to Smash It (April 2018)
CCU, Is There Such a Thing as a "Just Contract"? Demolish the Two-Tier Labor System! (October 2017)
Class Struggle Education Workers: Who We Are and What We Stand For (June 2023)
CSEW, The Crime of Medical Deportations (March 2017)
NYC Health Care Workers Say: Mobilize the Power of Labor to Defend Muslims and Immigrants (February 2017)
Capitalist Rulers Take a Wrecking Ball to CSU (January 2017)
Fight Capitalist Assault on Public Education! (January 2017)
Tyler McMillen, McCarthyism in the Universities: What it Is and How Not to Fight It (January 2017)
Assault on Academic Freedom (Almost) Claims Another Victim (February 2017)
CSEW/UFT, Student Revolt Shakes São Paulo, Brazil (December 2015)
Protest Torture Attack on Labor Activists' Family in Mexico (May 2018)
Solidarity with Mexican and Brazilian Teachers (August 2016)
Grupo Internacionalista, Mexican Teachers Strike of 2016: The Struggle Continues (April 2017)
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.”