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"... the entire thrust of the handbook was to limit teachers to polite suggestions to the AEU bureaucrats. ... "
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Australian pseudo-left tries to head off rebellion against Labor-union sellout of Victorian teachers
- World Socialist Web Site
wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06…
... “Socialists in Schools” [SOCAILIST ALTERNATIVE AUSTRALIA] issued a “strike handbook” which it distributed on March 24 and since. The eight-page document is a compendium of lies and falsifications, aimed at fostering illusions in the AEU leadership among teachers.
The handbook was compelled to note that under the state Labor government, in office since 2014, the assault on public education had escalated on every front. But it did not so much as mention the AEU’s role in that offensive. Every four years, over that period, the AEU has rammed through a sellout agreement in partnership with Labor, suppressing teachers’ wages and intensifying the crisis in schools.
The silence was not a mistake. It was because the entire thrust of the handbook was to limit teachers to polite suggestions to the AEU bureaucrats. Teachers, it raised, should encourage the AEU to call more strikes. “Labor will be under some pressure to deliver an agreement in the lead up to the state election,” the handbook declared. “We must capitalise on this pressure by taking strike action early in the year.”
The whole schema is a fraud. The presentation of the AEU leadership and the Labor government as opponents is false. They are flesh of flesh, and blood of blood.
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