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Teacher Strikes and the Fight for the Common
Teacher Strikes and the Fight for the Common

Author(s): Eric Blanc
Subject(s): Political Sciences, Sociology, State/Government and Education, Sociology of Education
Published by: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
Keywords: the common; public education; strike; privatization; decommodification;

Summary/Abstract: To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Praktyka Teoretyczna journal, we have invited our long-lasting collaborators and comrades to reflect once again on the concept of the common and it’s possible futures by posing the following questions: a) what is the most important aspect of the current struggles for the common?; b) what are the biggest challenges for the commonist politics of the future?; and c) where in the ongoing struggles do you see a potential for scaling-up and spreading organisation based on the common? In his reply, Eric Blanc draws our attention to contemporary teachers strikes as a movement with radical potentialities that greatly exceed merely reversing the privatization process of education.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 38
  • Page Range: 143-148
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: English
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