PW:
Is the near absence of a recent history of Second World women’s organizing simply a by-product of the collapse of Soviet and Eastern European socialism? A by-product of Western capitalism’s “victory”?
Kristen Ghodsee: The erasure of East European women’s activism together with that of the activism of their socialist allies in the Global South happened both because the East collapsed and because the West declared victory and could subsequently control and direct the historical narrative.
The 1990s ushered in a period of utter chaos and social, political, and economic upheaval in Eastern Europe. Many activists and scholars left the region to work or study in the West where the totalitarian paradigm still had a strong grip on the historiography of the Cold War.
The second-largest teacher's labor union in the U.S. is apparently using Meghan Markle to promote the power of unions amid a fight to reopen schools during the pandemic.
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Biden struggles with school reopenings
Ashley Parker, Laura Meckler, Fenit Nirappil and Annie Linskey, The Washington Post
March 7, 2021
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Preschooler Korey Hill works on an alphabet puzzle at Patterson Elementary School in Washington on Friday, Feb. 26, 2021.Photo for The Washington Post by Evelyn Hockstein
WASHINGTON - The promise was clear and hopeful: With strong public health measures, President-elect Joe Biden declared in early December, the majority of our schools can be open by the end of my first 100 days.
The reality has been far more complicated.
First came the clarification on Biden s first full day as president, when the administration released a 200-page coronavirus response plan that explained that the schools reopening schedule included only K-8 schools - not high schools - in those first 100 days.
To open schools amid the pandemic, Biden must grapple with competing constituencies including teachers unions, parents and students and with the reality that the federal government has little direct control over the issue.