Marian Swerdlow taught in a Brooklyn public high school for 25 years. She is a member of the Movement of Rank and File Educators (MORE), a reform caucus of the United Federation of Teachers. She is a former transit worker, and author of Underground Woman: My Four Years as a New York City Subway Conductor (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998).
What Method of Organizing?
Against the Current No. 212, May/June 2021
Learning Through Struggle
Against the Current, No. 202, September/October 2019
An Urban Teacher Union Epic
Against the Current, No. 194, May/June 2018
Teachers as Change Agents
Against the Current, No. 189, July/August 2017
Review: Whose Education? Whose Control?
Against the Current, No. 185, November/December 2016
Teachers in the Crosshairs
Against the Current, No. 179, November/December 2015
Spotlighting Inequality and Injustice
Against the Current, No. 172, September/October 2014
Transit Workers Try a "New Direction"
Against the Current, No. 74, May/June 1998
Albert Shanker, Image and Reality
Against the Current, No. 69, July/August 1997
Sisterhood and Solidarity
Against the Current, No. 37, March/April 1992