Why Are Things As They Are?

We Say Fightback: Well Grubbed Old Mole! All out March Second! Rescue Education from the Ruling Classes! Eric Foner: Return of the Class Struggle: Walker has threatened to send in the National Guard to clear the capitol of protesters, a throwback to the days when troops were regularly employed to crush strikes. It will be [...]

The Little Red Schoolhouse: Talking Points: Public Education or Capitalist Schooling? Five Key Talking Points with sub-sets: 1. Our social context is: A. Capitalism–meaning ruthless exploitation. B. Imperialism: capital’s birth-twin on a relentless search for cheap labor, raw materials, regional control, etc. C. The real promise of perpetual war and its corollary, rising inequality, often [...]

The Little Red Schoolhouse: Above, Student Fightback in Puerto Rico. Even these battles do not need to be lost. Watch, and think, how might we win this? Surely, capitalism will not be Transformed by Teaching alone. Emeritus Prof Morrow vs Quisling Protege Susan Neuman: One of the first NCLB bombshells landed in our neck of [...]

Remember the Rouge Forum Conference in Chicago: May 20-22! The Snow Will be Melted–We Think. http://www.rougeforumconference.org/ Little Red Schoolhouse: The children walking along the road of truth and reason carry love to all; and they clothe everything in new skies; they illumine everything with an incorruptible fire issuing from the depths of the soul. Thus [...]