Tag: Working-class consciousness

Review of Socialist Action’s Spring Education Conference 2024: What Socialists Do in Unions, Part Two

Introduction As I indicated in an earlier post, I attended the second session spring 2024 education conference of Socialist Action (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DA-mVbaSSOc&t=4354s) since the issue of what socialists should do in unions is of prime importance- but was excluded from it after I asked a couple of questions in the chat and responded to Barry Weisleder's … Continue reading Review of Socialist Action’s Spring Education Conference 2024: What Socialists Do in Unions, Part Two →

Exaggerated Evidence of Class Anger in the Case of Luigi Mangione’s Assassination of UnitedHealthCare CEO Brian Thompson

Introduction John Clarke, former major organizer of the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP), recently posted the following on Facebook:  Never mind Luigi Mangione's contradictions and inconsistencies. It wouldn't even have mattered if it had transpired that Brian Thompson had fallen to a random shooter or been taken out by a jealous business rival.   The … Continue reading Exaggerated Evidence of Class Anger in the Case of Luigi Mangione’s Assassination of UnitedHealthCare CEO Brian Thompson →

Critical Education Articles Placed in the Teacher Staff Lounge While I Was a Teacher, Part Twenty-Seven: Homelessness and the Working Class

This is a continuation of a series of posts on summaries of articles, mainly on education. When I was a French teacher at Ashern Central School, in Ashern, Manitoba, Canada, I started to place critiques, mainly (although not entirely) of the current school system. At first, I merely printed off the articles, but then I … Continue reading Critical Education Articles Placed in the Teacher Staff Lounge While I Was a Teacher, Part Twenty-Seven: Homelessness and the Working Class →