Subjects Archives: Education

No institution in the liberal West is safe from pro-Israel repression, especially universities whose knowledge production has dismantled the official consensus

We call on our supporters to help us resist the Israeli campaign of scholasticide and rebuild our universities

It’s the biggest organizing wave the U.S. labor movement has seen in decades.

CounterSpin interview with Ellen Schrecker on the attack on academic freedom

Germany’s students, labelled ‘terrorist sympathisers’ for protesting against Israel’s war on Gaza, say their right to free speech is under attack.

America’s universities are on fire.

Behind the efforts of the powerful to unleash chaos against students protesting for Palestine.

More than 2,700 protesters have been arrested on 64 college campuses since the initial arrests at Columbia University in New York on April 18. Encampments have appeared at 184 campuses worldwide.

Deakin University and the Australian National University (ANU) have indicated they intend to dismantle the student camps. Students across the country are protesting in support of Palestinian people and against their institutions’ ties with Israel.

 The students in short are moved by a pure sense of humanity.

Young people from California to Alabama are under threat from policies that require school staff to alert parents if a student identifies as trans.

As a former college teacher, one who witnessed the attacks on those who protested against the War in Vietnam and who studied the repression on campuses during the McCarthy period, I became so appalled at what was being done to our brave and courageous college students that I began to write letters to the leaders of what are, in reality, academic enterprises.

A banner and a name remind student protesters for whom they are fighting.

Liberal MP Anthony Housefather is clamoring for the violent suppression of McGill students protesting Israel’s genocide in Gaza. It is an odious escalation in the Israel lobby’s bid to suppress democracy at the prestigious university.

Barnard AAUP Chapter President Frederick Neuhouser said the vote calls for a change in course such as “implicitly a call for resignation.”

We condemn in the strongest possible terms the Administration’s suspension of students engaged in peaceful protest and their arrest by the New York City Police Department.

On 17 April, Minouche Shafik, the president of Columbia University, appeared before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, the latest episode in efforts by members of Congress to shut down criticism of Israel on campuses by falsely accusing students, professors and administrators of anti-Semitism.

The READER Act would have required vendors to rate books on “explicitness” before selling to schools—and blacklisted those that didn’t comply.

Preparing students for their futures requires nothing short of transformative systemic change in all aspects of society.

Two students from Venezuela’s ELAM medical school talk about becoming physicians in the service of the people.