Working Class and the Transformation of Learning: The Fraud of Education Reform Under Capitalism - Softcover

Jack Barnes

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0873489187 ISBN 13: 9780873489188

Publisher: Pathfinder Press, 2000

Synopsis

“Until society is reorganized so that education is a human activity from the time we are very young until the time we die, there will be no education worthy of working, creating humanity.”

Also available in Spanish (ISBN: 9780873489195), French (ISBN: 9780873489201), Farsi (ISBN: 9789645783004), Greek (ISBN: 9789608821460)

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About the Author

Jack Barnes (1940– ) is national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party. He joined the SWP in May 1961 and has been a member of the party’s National Committee since 1963 and a national officer since 1968.

Since the mid-1970s Barnes has led the political course of the SWP and its sister parties worldwide to build communist parties whose members and leaders in their large majority are workers and unionists organizing workers to forge and strengthen trade unions and lead the working class and its allies toward a successful socialist revolution.

Barnes is a contributing editor of New International magazine and author of numerous books and articles on revolutionary working-class politics and the communist movement.

His writings include:
Are They Rich Because They’re Smart? (2016)
The Turn to Industry: Forging a Proletarian Party (2019)
Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers Power (2009)
The Clintons’ Anti-Working-Class Record: Why Washington Fears Working People (2016)
“The Stewardship of Nature Also Falls to the Working Class: In Defense of Land and Labor,” in New International no. 14 (2008, coauthor)
Cuba and the Coming American Revolution (2007)
Their Trotsky and Ours (2002)
“US Imperialism Has Lost the Cold War” in New International no. 11 (1998)

Edition details

• Publisher: Pathfinder Press
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0873489187
• ISBN 13: 9780873489188
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 42