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HiPointDem

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3. this is kind of like the old idea of workers' schools -- self-education including political.
Thu Feb 28, 2013, 02:02 AM
Feb 2013

i can't remember the official name, though -- but there used to actually be institutions like this.

in australia and elsewhere too. i was readying about them not so long ago, but i can't remember the name. there was something similar that the unions did as well, but this other was more interesting because it was kind of self-organized and cooperative -- people paid a small sum to belong to this thing, which maintained a building, supply of tools which you could train with, education materials, etc. they were kind of working-class centers of activity for a while.

i think the infoshops were an attempt to do something similar -- rent a space, fill it with literature, offer public programs, etc.

the unions used to do worker education among their members but don't seem to have done that for eons.

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