In an end-of-the-year 2019 writing by General Secretary Roland Stankevicius, in the online newsletter the Manitoba Teacher, the title is: "We Could Use George Bailey Right About Now." Mr. Stankevicius idealizes the main character in Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life, a movie that fails completely to address the modern problem of the power of … Continue reading Manitoba Teachers’ Society and Its Social-Democratic or Reformist Ideology
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A Principal’s Evaluation of My Teaching Basic French, or: How to Oppress a Worker Through Performance Evaluation, Part One
The following is the first of several posts that provide a verbatim reply (with a somewhat different order) to a "clinical evaluation" (a performance evaluation of my teaching) made by the principal of Ashern Central School (Ashern, Manitoba, Canada), Neil MacNeil, in the fall of 2011 when I was teaching grades 6, 7 and 8 … Continue reading A Principal’s Evaluation of My Teaching Basic French, or: How to Oppress a Worker Through Performance Evaluation, Part One
A Personal Example of the Oppressive Nature of Public Welfare Services
Introduction As I wrote in another post A Worker’s Resistance to the Capitalist Government or State and Its Representatives, Part Eight): I sent, among other things, a table that contained some of Francesca's and my experiences with the WCFS [Winnipeg Child and Family Services] (I will be posting a modified version of this table (the updated … Continue reading A Personal Example of the Oppressive Nature of Public Welfare Services
A Worker’s Resistance to the Capitalist Government or State and Its Representatives, Part Eight
Introduction This is a continuation of a previous post that illustrates how politically biased the capitalist government or state and its representatives (such as social-democratic social workers) are when it comes to determining real situations--especially when a person self-declares as a Marxist. Just a recap: I filed a complaint with the Manitoba Institute of Registered … Continue reading A Worker’s Resistance to the Capitalist Government or State and Its Representatives, Part Eight
The Abolitionary 