Features
Aislinn Shanahan Daly explains how publishing under capitalism is dominated by corporations, and how everyone in society loses out as a result. She argues that collective organising by researchers and staff within academic institutions and systemic change are needed to put an end to the for-profit rip-off of
Culture
Workers at BIMM (British and Irish Modern Music Academy) have scored a major victory against management attempts to impose draconian changes to working conditions and compulsory redundancies. Eddie Conlon explains how, with a well organised campaign and the full support of their students, the lecturers have again shown that effective
Features
As with many public services education is often overlooked by mainstream politics and politicians – it barely surfaced in the recent general election campaign. Here Deirdre Cronin examines the class basis to the crisis in education and argues the US teachers’ struggles of the past decade need to be replicated here.
Features
László Molnarfi was elected president of Trinity College Students’ Union this year after campaigning on a radical left platform. We interview him here about the issues facing students, the growing politicisation among young people, and the possibilities of campaigning for radical change. You were elected President of TCDSU last year
Features
The protracted dispute in Northern Ireland’s higher education sector is at a crucial juncture. With UCU union members’ industrial action applying significant pressure on the sector’s employers, the union leadership (again) appear to be manoeuvering to settle the dispute without any significant concessions. Goretti Horgan analyses the current
Features
In the wake of strike cancellations by UCU union leadership, UCU activist Goretti Horgan warns of an impending sellout and argues that workers need to keep the pressure on to ensure that the union bureaucracy does not snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. The University and College Union (UCU)
Covid-19
Recent months have seen intense debate about the future of the Leaving Cert. Post-primary teacher Mark Walshe argues that while the process is seriously flawed, it is but one aspect of wider educational inequality in Irish society and of the deeper class inequality which causes it. The COVID-19
Covid-19
In the second part of his two-part series, Cian Parry explores the ideas of socialist educator, Paulo Freire. He argues that there is much we can learn from the Brazilian’s work, especially the notion of a liberatory education which could provide an alternative to the currently failing system.
Covid-19
In the first of a two-part article, Leaving Certificate student, Cian Parry, argues that the exams should be cancelled this summer – and for good. Instead, a socialist approach to education based on breaking down the false barriers between teacher and student provides inspiration for what education could be. In
Features
In the last few months a wave of rank-and-file teacher strikes has swept the US. Rebel spoke with Dana Blanchard—a former elementary school teacher and union organiser in California for almost fifteen years, who reported on the strikes for Socialist Worker (US)—about this industrial action, and