Angry Education Workers
@angryedworkers.bsky.social
Reflections by and for angry workers in the education industry on labor theory and strategy, education history, studies of educational workplaces, and reports on concrete class struggle. https://www.angryeducationworkers.com/
Support anarchist comrades organizing in Sudan! opencollective.com/support-suda... #news #anarchism #education #politics
Support Sudanese Comrades - Open Collective
Sudanese anarchist comrades are building grassroots committees, mutual aid networks, and political education through their publication Al Amal/Hope & grassroots organizing. Support thier work for libe...
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If you live in Arlington County, VA, please sign this petition to help save the Cherrydale Library, which has been targeted for closure by the County Board. www.ipetitions.com/petition/kee... #education #politics
Petition Keep Cherrydale Library Open
Keep Cherrydale Library open.
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Watching all these centrist pundits stress the “civility” of Charlie Kirk’s style without addressing the ugliness of his substance is giving me a renewed appreciation of how the civil, polite White Citizens’ Councils conned the same crowd into thinking they were distinct from the cruder Klan.
Hey everyone! It's been awhile, but we've been busy working on a variety of projects, including an upcoming series of workers' inquiries on educational workplaces in the D.C. region. In the meantime, check out some of our key writings: www.angryeducationworkers.com/a-roundup-of... #EduSky
A Roundup of our Key Texts
We've gathered some of our most well-received writings in one place for our new subscribers.
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The final installment of Towards a Revolutionary Union Movement, an evaluation of the IWW in its current form, is up! angryeducationworkers.substack.com/p/towards-a-... #EduSky
Towards a Revolutionary Union Movement, Addendum: A Revolutionary Vehicle? The Role of the IWW
After extensive discussion among rank-and-file IWW militants with concrete workplace organizing experience, we present this evaluation of the IWW and a vision for its future.
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me when any program's AI assistant asks me if I want help writing:
How Reaganism actually started with Jimmy Carter www.salon.com/2011/02/08/l... via @salonnewsroom.bsky.social
Now just $2800 to go, thanks to some really awesome people!
Red Emma’s@redemmas.org · 2y agoWe've got two days left to hit our fundraising target for the Red Emma's Education Fund—can you help us out? Just $3500 to go....
All this hacking and nobody is wiping out people’s debt.
The new generation of young, diverse, fired-up worker-organizers around the country are embracing one of the oldest tactics in the pro-union handbook: salting. My latest for @teenvogue.bsky.social: www.teenvogue.com/story/what-i...
How Undercover Organizers Are Energizing the Labor Movement
Let’s talk about “salting.”
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Parts 10-13 of our series on revolutionary unionism are up. Part 13 details our conclusions: angryeducationworkers.substack.com/p/towards-a-... #EduSky
Towards a Revolutionary Union Movement, Part 13: Conclusions
We draw strategic conclusions from our analysis of revolutionary unionism. There are two immediate priorities: organizing the unorganized and dual carding within the established unions.
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self checkout is the slow knife. employees replaced with the mechanical turk free labor of a million customers' hands, hands stayed from mischief not by fair wages but by biometric panopticon, a camera at every station, your face in every database. we should be burning these machines in the streets
Just getting started here with my #ActuallyAutistic audience... I hit a nerve with this. Now, it mighta been the funny bone... Or it might be that monster nerve that goes up your spine and into your head and you light up like a Christmas Tree with inspiration. you tell me. #ActuallyAutistic
With how the US election just went, those of you who follow us here on Bluesky might appreciate what we had to say on the role revolutionary unions have to play in antifascist struggle: angryeducationworkers.substack.com/p/towards-a-... #EduSky #anarchism
Towards a Revolutionary Union Movement, Part 9: Antifascist
Fascism represents an all out war against the proletariat. Revolutionary unionists must unite with antifascist struggles of all types if we hope to outlast the repression we will inevitably face.
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We couldn't agree more. Even better, the IWW is still here! We're rebuilding to help wage the revolutionary labor struggles of the future! Get in touch! iww.org DMVeducationworkers@protonmail.com #EduSky
Industrial Workers of the World
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Perry Bacon@perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 2y ago"If we are going to ever defeat Trumpism, modern fascism, and wage a viable challenge to gendered racial capitalism, we must revive the old IWW slogan, “An injury to one is an injury to all.” www.bostonreview.net/articles/not...
Anyone who thinks this attack on higher ed is going to stop with the humanities or courses on race and gender has another thing coming - Florida is already targeting classes on “Labor and Globalization” and “Introduction to East Asia” for removal from the curriculum
Zachary Levenson@grundrza.bsky.social · 2y agoMost of the folks interviewed are in my department. But what the piece doesn’t reveal is that this reactionary regime of censorship is working hand-in-hand with an assault on shared governance, fully enabled by each respective campus administration. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/u...
Disclose - Once The War Started... 🇯🇵 Japan, Hardcore, Punk (1993)
"If we are going to ever defeat Trumpism, modern fascism, and wage a viable challenge to gendered racial capitalism, we must revive the old IWW slogan, “An injury to one is an injury to all.” www.bostonreview.net/articles/not...
Notes on Fighting Trumpism - Boston Review
To mobilize the abandoned working class, we need to revive the idea of solidarity.
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Being Autistic doesn't lead to being Trans & Polyamory. However there is a HUGE Overlap. If you Hate Trans & Polyam People you DEFINITELY Hate Autistic People. There is always Overlap. You need to Stand With EVERYONE cuz otherwise you're Standing against Someone. Someone that may be important.
November 5th wasn't what any of us wanted. At the end of the day, our low pay, awful managers, and sub-par benefits will continue, until the working class organizes. Want to fight the good fight? Organize your workplace today.
Phoenix IWW - Organizing Intake Form
Use this form to engage the Organizing Committee of the Phoenix IWW for assistance in organizing your workplace.
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It's time to wake up (if you haven't already), then organize your workplace! DMV EWOC is here to support you. If you work in schools, museums, libraries, archives, daycares, or other educational facilities, use our organizing lead intake form to get in touch! forms.gle/9u1iTkLAfjHb... #EduSky
Industrial Workers of the World - DMV Education Workers Organizing Committee - Contact Form
Thanks for your interest in organizing with the IWW DMV Education Workers Organizing Committee (DMV EWOC). Please fill out this form and we will have an EWOC organizer arrange a phone or virtual call...
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With how the US election just went, those of you who follow us here on Bluesky might appreciate what we had to say on the role revolutionary unions have to play in antifascist struggle: angryeducationworkers.substack.com/p/towards-a-... #EduSky #anarchism
Towards a Revolutionary Union Movement, Part 9: Antifascist
Fascism represents an all out war against the proletariat. Revolutionary unionists must unite with antifascist struggles of all types if we hope to outlast the repression we will inevitably face.
angryeducationworkers.substack.com
Mail carriers reach tentative contract with USPS that includes pay raises and air-conditioned trucks
Mail carriers reach tentative contract with USPS that includes pay raises and air-conditioned trucks
Some 200,000 letter carriers have reached a tentative contract deal with the U.S. Postal Service that includes backdated pay raises and a promise to provide workers with air-conditioned trucks.
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We're releasing a series on revolutionary unionism. So far, we've posted parts 1-3. Read them here: angryeducationworkers.substack.com/p/towards-a-... #EduSky #anarchism
Towards a Revolutionary Union Movement, Part One: Introduction
We need a new, revolutionary type of unionism that can confront the power of the employing class. Our new essay series examines which traits revolutionary unions must possess to succeed.
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The UK IWW's Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) Workers' Union is racking up victories for normally isolated workers in an extremely precarious part of the education industry: angryeducationworkers.substack.com/p/a-report-f... #EduSky #HigherEd #workers
A Report from the UK IWW's TEFL Workers' Union
The UK IWW's Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) Workers' Union is building power among usually isolated educators. We republish these updates about recent organizing victories and protests.
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Our newest essay argues that professional hierarchies in our workplaces exist to set groups of workers in schools, libraries, museums, and other educational institutions against each other. angryeducationworkers.substack.com/p/against-pr... #EduSky #edpolisky #library #museum #archives #edhist
Against Professionalism!
Professional hierarchies in educational workplaces exist to set groups of workers against each other in service of arbitrary definitions of professional conduct that are imposed by our employers.
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