Workers and youth in Germany demand general strike for a “strict lockdown”
Despite the devastating spread of the “third wave” of the coronavirus pandemic, all European governments are pursuing the deadly policy of reopening schools and the economy. The Network of Rank-and-File Committees for Safe Education (Netzwerk der Aktionkomittees für Sichere Bildung) met on Monday of last week to organize resistance to these policies.
“We are faced with the necessity of imposing a serious, Europe-wide lockdown that includes schools, daycare centers and industry,” Gregor Kahl, Bundestag candidate for the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (SGP, Socialist Equality Party in Germany), said at the beginning of his remarks opening the meeting. “Insofar as this is not done, hundreds of thousands of lives will be at stake in Germany and Europe.”
Canada’s universities and colleges announce reopenings despite threat of COVID-19 third wave
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established Cross-Canada Educators’ Rank-and-File Safety Committee (CERSC)
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Amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the growing threat of a deadlier third wave, provincial governments across Canada have given the greenlight for the gradual reopening of universities and colleges. This premature and reckless step will contribute to spreading the lethal virus among students and staff on campuses and in the broader community.
At the urging of Quebec’s right-wing CAQ government, which has been at the forefront of the Canadian ruling class’s back-to-work/back-to-school drive, some universities and colleges (CEGEPS) in Canada’s second most populous province began offering in-person learning as early as February 8.
Canada’s schools are not “safe!” Build rank-and-file committees to shut down all in-person classes and save lives!
organized Cross-Canada Educators’ Rank-and-File Safety Committee.
We have formed the Cross-Canada Educators’ Rank-and-File Safety Committee to fight for the immediate closure of all schools across the country. Such action is urgently required to protect the lives of school staff, students and their families from the raging COVID-19 pandemic.
Even the federal government’s own chief medical officer acknowledges that a third wave of the pandemic is rapidly developing, fuelled by new, more contagious variants of the virus, and that it threatens to be even more deadly than the two previous waves.