CHAPTER 6: From Standardized Testing to the War on Libya: The Privatization of U.S. Education in International Context

In this chapter, the author examines how the current domestic attack on public education flows from a historical (and uneven) international process of capitalist production and accumulation. In particular, he demonstrates how educational privatizations and the U.S. war on Libya are embedded within the same overarching logic. This internationalist analysis links up struggles for education in the United States to resistance struggles abroad, identifying, and establishing potential networks and alliances against global capital.