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A New York City Teacher Reflects on the January 23 March for Minneapolis
1+ hour, 59+ min ago (814+ words) Minneapolis became a turning point. We could feel it all the way in NYC, and we knew we had a responsibility to act from our position of collective strength as educators." Soon after, we heard that organizers in the Twin…...
New York City Educators Must Mobilize on January 23
1+ week, 2+ day ago (625+ words) New York City educators have been on the front lines of the struggle against ICE. Now, we must mobilize on January 23 in solidarity with Minneapolis unions" call to block the economy. Across the country, from New York City to Los…...
Detroit Teachers Push Union and School Board to Fight ICE
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (641+ words) ICE is ramping up kidnappings in Detroit, including kids. Teachers are on the frontlines, pushing their institutions to step up the fight. On December 11, following a string of Detroit high school students kidnapped by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), teachers…...
Lessons from Lev Vygotsky on the Role of Educators and the Struggle for a New Society
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (878+ words) Below, we publish a translation of the prologue to Lev Vygotsky's Educational Psychology (1926), recently republished by Ediciones IPS. The book compiles lessons for educators on education and pedagogy built on the author's revolutionary experience. Ivana Otero, Virginia Pescarmona and Federico…...
“It Is Harming the Fabric of Our School Communities”: An Interview with a Chicago Teacher on Fighting Back ICE
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (1434+ words) Left Voice spoke with Gabe Paez, a socialist teacher in Chicago, about how teachers, students, and communities are organizing to defend immigrant students from ICE and the role of educators in fighting against Trump's attacks. In the context of this…...
The CUNY Fired Four at the No Kings March
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (626+ words) Four professors at the City University of New York were fired for their solidarity for Palestine. The campaign for their reinstatement is growing. "1, 2, 3, 4 " Reinstate the fired four!" The Fired Four campaign has become a major rallying point for the PSC,…...
CUNY Classes Begin with Divestment Win and Campaign to Reinstate the Fired Four
5+ mon, 15+ hour ago (920+ words) CUNY students are standing up against repression of the Palestine movement, and won a significant victory on the path to divestment. As Israel escalates its genocidal campaign in Gaza, including a famine, with full support from the U.S. government, CUNY has…...
Rutgers Adjuncts Stand With the CUNY Four
5+ mon, 3+ day ago (537+ words) Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union The Executive Board of the Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union voted on Monday, August 25, 2025 to endorse the following statement. The Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union Executive Board condemns the recent non-reappointment of three adjunct faculty members and termination…...
“It Is More So an Education Issue than Ever Before”: Why NEA Members Voted to Support Palestine
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (905+ words) Left Voice spoke with an anti-Zionist Jewish educator who helped organize a recent vote by the National Education Association in solidarity with Palestine. She discussed how the movement for Palestine intersects with attacks on education and why teachers need to…...
CUNY Workers, Students, and Allies Rally at Brooklyn College, Chanting “McCarthyism No More, Reinstate the Fired Four”
5+ mon, 3+ week ago (616+ words) Over one hundred students, faculty, staff, and allies gathered at Brooklyn College in the pouring rain to demand the reinstatement of the Fired Four " adjunct faculty fired seemingly in retaliation for their pro-Palestine activism. "Hear our roar, hear our call!...