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UC unions rallied and protested at the UC Regents meeting at the Mission Bay campus against the union busting by the UC Regents and management, attacks on democratic rights and massive cutbacks of NIH by Trump along with demands for the "cleansing" of the University...

AB 715 swaps explicit Israel-Palestine bans for an IHRA‑aligned, “Antisemitism Prevention Coordinator” led instruction materials regime that channels “compliance” through advocacy networks, relabels Israel‑critical scholarship as “bias” and discrimination, chilling classroom speech. AB 715 must be rejected in favor of viewpoint‑neutral standards, established K–12 speech/harassment thresholds, transparency, and clear classroom guidance....

Most university economists will say: I am free to think, say, and teach what I want; we have academic freedom. That is true. But only for those who have made it into the system, who have submitted to the basic assumptions in advance....

The University of California management and regents are engaged in a frontal union busting attack on the NUHW and other workers at the Oakland Children's Hospitals. They are telling workers they have no right to their own union representation but must join other unions that they don't want. They have imposed massive pay cuts on these workers by ending their paid healthcare benefits and other conditions flagrantly violating their union contracts. Governor Newsom and the Democrats in the legisl...

Trump regime freezes funding for Cornell, Northwestern University An official says the pause in funding includes grants and contracts with the federal departments of health, education, agriculture and defence....

On the evening of March 8, 2025, Columbia University student activist Mahmoud Khalil was detained by the Department of Homeland Security. The arrest comes on the heels of the Department of State’s announcement that it plans to deport students affiliated with pro-Palestine protests. The student, who is Palestinian, is a lawful permanent resident of the U.S....

60,000 workers will be striking the UC system on February 26th & 27th 2025....

Union bureaucrats on the Executive Board at CCSF AFT 2121 in San Francisco voted to reject a resolution calling for equal pay for equal work. The union bureaucracy who spend their time supporting Democratic Party politicians have refused to launch any campaign against the exploitation of adjuncts who are used as cheap labor by not just CCSF but other community colleges, state colleges and UC. This would mean fighting the Democrats and the billionaires who really run California. They also re...

The International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) in New York and New Jersey condemns the police-state crackdown at New York University (NYU) directed against protesters opposed to the US-Israeli genocide in Gaza. We demand that the university’s bans on pro-Palestinian faculty and students be lifted immediately....

No matter which of the two big-business candidates for US president takes office, Kamala Harris or Donald Trump, the frontal assault on the social right to high-quality public education will escalate....