Introduction Neoliberal Politics and Education in the Rich World: Inequality, Undemocracy and the Resistant Possibilities and Roles of Critical Educators

In this Introductory chapter, I look at what resistance teachers and education workers can and do make in the face of neoliberalizing (and sometimes nationalistic and neoconservative) capital and governments. Here, I argue that teachers and other education and cultural workers should act as critical, organic, public, transformative, egalitarian, socialist intellectuals. And that these workers should be active in resisting the depredations of neoliberal education in three arenas. These are the arenas of the classroom and school, more widely in local actions and communities-and more widely still-in the national and global struggle for dignity, equality, and a transformation to equality and to democratic Socialism.