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The Crisis of Student Debt and the Fight for Public Education
The CSU system, once hailed nationally for its affordability and accessibility, is now at a crossroads as nearly 400,000 students and their families confront the harsh reality of escalating costs. A new tuition increase has been imposed by the Board of Trustees.
MAGA school-voucher plans flunk in some red states
In this critical 2024 election year, MAGA and other fascist forces use public education as a venue for the performative politics of fear, anger, hatred. They claim they are victimized by certain public school programs, which are actually aimed at meeting the educational and emotional needs of all students.
Battle for democracy raging
Democracy is at risk in battles for political power across the South. Tennessee students, Florida faculty and Arkansas school districts are fighting to stop what can only be called fascism.
Fighting for human needs in the 2024 elections
The deteriorating economic situation for millions of Americans is generating both a rising tide of people fighting for their basic needs and a ruling-class turn toward fascist solutions to crush the resistance.
Stop Cop City: a Climate Catalyst
Cop City is the name people have given to the proposed largest police training facility/mock city in the United States, in Atlanta, Georgia. To build it, the police foundation and their corporate donors will have to destroy 85 acres of the largest urban green space in the country, in a Black working-class neighborhood.
Public schools next school year: A world to win
The old school year ended this spring, centered once again on school shootings. In response to public demands to control assault rifles, many state governments have turned instead to controlling the free speech of teachers, LGBTQ people, African Americans and all marginalized groups.
Chicago 2023: This election is different
Chicago is undergoing an historic election for mayor, city council and the newly formed Police District Councils (PDCs). Nine candidates vied for the mayor’s...
The UC strike – A new generation rising in the labor movement
By the National Public Education Committee of the League of Revolutionaries for a New America
In November, 48,000 academic workers – graduate students and post-docs...
Whose Kids? Our Kids! The Attack on Public Education
As public schools enter their third year of COVID, public education as a system is staggering on the ropes. Since 2020, more than half...
2022 Elections Pit Corporate Profit vs People’s Needs
America stands on the precipice of fascism, and whether it falls is up to us. The “slow-moving coup” unfolding since the failed insurrection of...
Defending Democracy
Summer wildfires and hurricanes, new pandemic variants, and the grisly fascist offensive have cast a cloud of doom over American society. These are signs...
Pandemic Recovery Requires Shift in Consciousness
The betrayal of the poor couldn’t be more obvious. The U.S. ruling class has sacrificed more than 750,000 Americans, paying lip service to “essential...
Inside: Unity and the Struggle to Reconstruct Society
The articles in this issue examine crises in housing, COVID-19, public education, science, democracy, and the basic survival of humanity and nature.
As the political...
We Abolish Educational Inequality, or They Abolish Public Education
Public education from pre-school to higher education is being permanently transformed before our eyes. The massive intrusion of corporate-owned tech platforms into public schools...
We Abolish Educational Inequality, or They Abolish Public Ed
Public education from pre-school to higher education is being permanently transformed before our eyes. The massive intrusion of corporate-owned tech platforms into public schools...
Our Imagination has Been Triggered (by this Pandemic)
Over 600,000 Americans died, and over 33 million were infected with COVID-19, much of which could have been prevented. Some are still getting sick....
As Schools Open, What Do Our Kids Deserve?
The pitched battle between the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) and the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) over reopening schools reveals how teachers, their communities, and...
Quality Education for All Children Is Possible During Pandemic
A popular song begins, “I believe the children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way.” If allowed to continue,...
Inside: ‘Get Your Knee Off Our Necks’
“Sufferings and Struggles, Hopes and Prospects” reports on life-or-death threats people face. Nearly 14 million children in the United States went hungry in June,...
Public Education and the Fight for our Children’s Future
With Coronavirus cases spiking across the country, everyone from CEOs to the President, state governors, and the corporate media are calling for schools to...
Pandemic Drives More Privatization of Higher Education
Police murdered Rayshard Brooks right after murdering George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor and so many others. These atrocities have ignited a powerful...
Remembering Who We Are in the Heart of the Pandemic
“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with...
Children at Center of Chicago Teachers Strike
The last thing teachers want to do is not to be in the classroom with their students. The Chicago teachers and school support staff...
School Privatization and America’s Housing Crisis
“Education is a human right!,” say students, teachers and parents around the country. They believe all children and adults should have access to free,...
Inside: Partial Measures Will Not Do
During the Democratic presidential debates for the 2020 elections, many of the candidates spoke about the skyrocketing housing costs, resulting in a glaring increase...
The Rising Movement Today
The leap in the economy, from industrial production to electronic production, is forcing millions of workers out of jobs, destroying the standard of living...
Illuminating the Path to a New America
Editors Note: In this issue of Rally, Comrades! we are publishing the Political Resolution of the League of Revolutionaries for a New America, adopted...
Inside: R – E – S – P – E – C – T
The soulful song of Aretha never rang truer than today. The American people just want to be able to contribute, provide for their families...
Teachers Fight Forward
The “Red State Revolt,” as the uprising of teachers has been described, shows the clash between new and old, as the U.S. moves further...
Teachers’ Uprising – A Fight for Everyone’s Future
The teachers’ uprising sweeping the country is a fight for the future, not only for our children, but for the well being of all...
Inside: Property – Public for the Many or Private for the Few
Denied the basic necessities of life, millions of American workers are engaged in a life and death struggle to survive. At the same time,...
Public Education – The Dream or the Nightmare
As schools open this fall across the United States, tens of thousands of students, parents, and educators are demanding Sanctuary Cities Schools as safe...
Inside: Build the World We All Want
Over fifty per cent of public school children live in poverty. Regardless of how much their parents work, many of these children are homeless,...
Public Education and the State
Students, teachers, and entire communities are in ferment across the U.S, Canada and Mexico, defending their human right to education. Battles for public education...
The Corporate State Takeover of Georgia Public Schools
Education “reform” is running rampant throughout the country and especially in Georgia. Yes, the public education system needs improvement, but these “reforms” are designed...
Jovencidio – Capitalism’s War on Youth is War on Society
“Jovencidio” – Mexico’s term for genocidal state attacks on youth – also describes what is happening today in the U.S. Jovencidio is an entry...
Inside: Our Right to What We Need
In the U.S. today, a growing movement is taking shape that is increasingly demanding that government agencies and elected officials take responsibility for the...
Inside: History is on Our Side
The polls have been telling us for some time now that the American people do not believe that the country is headed in the...
The Fight for a New Vision of Education
Electronic, computer-based technology engenders the new laborless production that is grinding through industry after industry, permanently eliminating jobs. Many of the jobs that remain,...
The Digital Revolution and the Transformation of Public Higher Education
As America’s students study to pass their classes, the system of higher education is failing. Skyrocketing tuition forces millions of youth to forego college...
Inside: Transformation of Society Requires Revolutionary Strategy
The goal of the revolutionaries is a peaceful, cooperative society, based on the material foundation of the new means of production. To do this,...
Struggle for Public Education Hinges on New Ideas
Millions of families are counting on education to provide a way out of the devastation and poverty as the old industrial economy crumbles. They...
Inside: Rising Discontent Demands a New World
For the first time ever, for over two weeks the U.S. government was shut down. As the political crisis played out, federal employees were...
Keep Public Education Public
The motion around public education provides tremendous opportunities to introduce new ideas and reach new revolutionaries. The capitalist class is handing revolutionaries the ammunition...
Corporate Control Devastates Public Education
Public schools are being shut down all over America. Washington D.C. plans to shutter 15 more schools on top of the 28 already closed....
Inside: Our Children and the Future of Humanity
If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.” – Thomas Paine, 1776
Every society has always...
The Chicago Teachers Union Strike – The Politics of Power
The battle for public education broke out in Chicago, the epicenter of corporate-led education reform. It broke out in the Rust Belt, in the...
Inside: The Ice is Beginning to Break
Over the past several years, particularly since the beginning of the 2008 global financial crisis, the protests and struggles of the peoples of the...
The Jobs of Tomorrow?
The U.S. community college system is the largest public education system in the world, with over 5 million students. Community colleges traditionally have been...
Abolish Student Debt, Make Government Accountable
"Trillion Dollar Day” was the day last April when student debt in the U.S. exceeded one trillion dollars, sur-passing even U.S. credit card debt....
Editorial: Battle to Change the World
Half of all humanity lives on less than ten dollars a day, while the richest one per cent own half of the world’s wealth....
Public Education: What Are We Up Against?
Over the last two years corporations have launched a strategy to reorganize the American government. Together with their political allies they have bailed out...
