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This is the report delivered by Gregor Link to the 2022 International May Day Online Rally held on May 1. Link is a leading member in Germany of the International Youth and Students for Social Equality, the youth movement of the International Committee of the Fourth International and its affiliated Socialist Equality Parties.

The meeting took place amid an international wave of school strikes and teachers’ protests—reaching from the US to France, Italy, Austria and Greece—and gave conscious political expression to this growing mass movement.

Amid the exponential spread of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus across Europe, an online meeting of the Network of Rank-and-File Committees for Safe Education expressed the immense opposition and willingness to fight against the criminal herd immunity policies of governments everywhere.

At the meeting, nurses, educators, workers and students presented a terrible picture of the consequences of the official coronavirus policies.

At inaugural public meeting, Cross-Canada Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee calls for working class action to stop the third COVID-19 wave The Cross-Canada Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee (CERSC) held its first public meeting on Sunday to discuss a working class-led strategy to stop the third wave of the pandemic. The meeting featured an international panel of speakers, who explained the committee’s demands for the closure of schools and nonessential production, and the provis...

Network meeting of action committees for safe education discusses Europe-wide school strike “No opening of schools and day-care centres before the pandemic is under control!”—this is the call by the Network of Action Committees for Safe Education in a resolution unanimously adopted on Monday evening. In introducing the resolution at an online meeting, Gregor Link of the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) described the “war-like conditions” of the coronavirus ...

UK Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee warns of packed schools amid an escalating pandemic and third lockdown The UK Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee met last Saturday under conditions of a pandemic escalating out of control. The UK has the highest death rate in the world, with a catastrophic 1,325 daily deaths reported immediately prior to the meeting and now totalling over 95,000. Hospitals are days away from being overwhelmed. Special needs teacher Tania Kent explained, “the b...