Wayne Au, David Stovall, Jesse Hagopian, Barbara Ransby, Davarian Baldwin, and Bill Ayers speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025.

Book-banning, attacks on Critical Race Theory, Black Studies and Queer Studies, the use of state violence to repress dissent—we are experiencing a furious backlash against modest steps to make education accessible to all children and youth.  How should a broad movement for educational justice be framed and forged?

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