Category: Education

  • Two Paths – Time to Make the Choice

    There are two educational models before us: On the one hand, there is the model of the so-called stakeholders at the table. At the head of the table is the billionaire Mayor. Sitting at his right, his stooge the Chancellor of the Department of Education. Sitting at his left, the mayoral members of the Panel…

  • Thoughts on CPE/CEP

    In the interest of full disclosure, I wish to let you know that I am a Marxist. But at the same time I request that I not be held responsible for the actions of those who also claimed to have been or presently claim to be Marxist. The question has been raised (until now privately)…

  • Promoting a People’s Board of Education

    The way we get to a goal is as important as the goal itself. More accurately stated, the way we get to a goal is inseparable from and determines how thegoal turns out. So the process of struggle in arriving at a People’s Board of Education is crucial. It should not be only the product…

  • The Fight for Popular Control of Education

    Riding the wave of the Southern civil rights movement and the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision, the struggle in the North against the separate and unequal, racist public school system grew more intense. In New York City Rev. Milton Galamison assumed the leadership of that struggle, but he was taking over struggles…

  • Behind the Sad History of Public Education

    For years, the people have been under attack, the working people, people of modest means or no means at all. Corporations, not satisfied with their usual profits, their pound of flesh, have moved their factories out of this country to regions where they can get desperate workers to labor for a few dollars a day…

  • Organizing for Organizing’s Sake

    We are not about organizing for organizing’s sake. We are trying to organize a political force capable of changing our society in fundamental ways. And we understand that the only force capable of doin£ so are the masses of the people, people who are conscious of their fundamental interests, who are confident in their ability,…