The occasion of a day to honor Dr. King is an annual opportunity to remind ourselves that equity in education--and elsewhere--is possible. January 16, 2012
One year after NBC's "Education Nation" summit on public schools, the "reformers" have had a bad year--but they're still pushing their agenda. October 10, 2011
Barack Obama is back on the campaign trail, but he needs some new slogans--because "hope" and "change" have been emptied of any content. April 26, 2011
Education "reform" has been referred to by various terms: privatization, deregulation, neoliberalism. Karl Marx had another name for it: capitalism. February 2, 2011
Once you get past the hype, the war on public education is motivated by the same imperatives--power and profit--driving U.S. wars abroad. November 10, 2010
Supporters of charter schools claim they are fighting a "civil rights" struggle, but would Martin Luther King sign up for such a "movement"? October 19, 2010
The sacrificial teacher on a televised panel discussion packed with advocates of anti-union school "reform" has a few more points to make. October 8, 2010
A SocialistWorker.org columnist explains what he wants to say--if he gets the chance--at a televised panel discussion on the future of teaching. September 27, 2010
Two leading Black members of Congress are accused of violating ethical standards--but the biggest scandals in national politics are perfectly legal. August 18, 2010
A conservative Web site accused the "people's historian" of perpetrating a distorted "version" of history, but it's the truth that they're scared of. December 16, 2009
At a fancy gala thrown by the Harlem Success Academy, I heard charter school supporters use the legacy of civil rights struggles to sell privatization. November 13, 2009
If there's any idea worth rethinking, it's Whole Foods CEO John Mackey's claim that our needs are best met through the unfettered free market. September 3, 2009
There may be differences within the limits of "mainstream" ruling-class thinking, but figures like Obama would never challenge those limits themselves. July 29, 2009
Hubert Harrison, the Black socialist from the turn of the 20th century, was many things: author, editor, public speaker, educator and activist. July 6, 2009
They're often called utopians, but Marx and Engels were the first to bring socialism down from the clouds and explain how it could be established in the real world.
March 4, 2009
Marx's Marxism is the theoretical product of his practical efforts to build a movement for change, and his observations of struggles taking place around him. February 25, 2009
