Book launch: "History's Schools, Past Struggles and Present Realities," co-edited by Aziz Choudry, Salim Vally [University of Cape Town]

Book launch for History's Schools: Past Struggles and Present Realities (University of KwaZulu-Natal Press), co-edited by Aziz Choudry and Salim Vally.

Aziz Choudry is Associate Professor in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education at McGill University and a visiting professor at the Faculty of Education, University of Johannesburg, where he is affiliated to the Centre for Education Rights and Transformation. He is author or co-author of several books including Learning Activism:The Intellectual Life of Contemporary Social Movements (University of Toronto Press, 2015), and co-editor of Learning from the Ground Up: Global Perspectives on Social Movements and Knowledge Production (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), Just Work? Migrant Workers’ Struggles Today  (Pluto Press, 2015) Unfree Labour? Struggles of Migrant and Immigrant Workers in Canada (2016,PM Press), and Reflections on Knowledge, Learning and Social Movements: History's Schools (Routledge, 2017). His forthcoming edited publication, Activists and the Surveillance State: Learning From Repression, is now available for pre-order. Choudry serves on the boards of the Immigrant Workers Centre, Montreal, and the Global Justice Ecology Project.

Salim Vally is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Education and Director of the Centre for Education Rights and Transformation, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He is also a visiting professor at Nelson Mandela University, South Africa.