Members and friends of the Professional Staff Congress (PSC) at the City University of New York (CUNY), American Federation of Teachers (AFT), and the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) held a press conference in front of City Hall today to condemn what they are calling “modern-day McCarthyism” in higher education and to demand the rehiring of

Three university presidents from the City University of New York (CUNY), Georgetown, and University of California Berkeley have been called before the House Education and Workforce Committee (HEWC) to testify in a hearing on Tuesday, July 15, titled “Antisemitism in Higher Education: Examining the Role of Faculty, Funding, and Ideology.” This is one of several witch-hunt hear...

At least four faculty members have been fired and at least one student has been suspended at the City University of New York (CUNY) in what has “all appearances of an ideological purge,” according to PSC-CUNY, the faculty, staff, and grad...

We are experiencing a new historical phase of the renewed trends toward crises, wars, and revolutions, which are being seen through the genocide in Palestine; the rearmament of European powers (which has been expressed most acutely by the NATO countries that have pledged to increase their military spending to 5 percent of GDP); the strengthening of the Far Right amid greater ...

George Orwell described a totalitarian dictatorship thus: “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

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