Juno News - May 13, 2026


Course for educators pushes communist indoctrination on Concordia campus


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Canadian teachers are literally attending a course on how to use education for a communist revolution, and it s happening right on the Concordia University campus. It s designed for students and working teachers, and they re studying communist pedagogy in the four 20th century revolutions: Cuba s literacy campaign, Cuba's literacy campaign where kids as young as 8 worked the fields by day and taught literacy at night, and the Soviet labor communes run by the OGPU and NKVD, the Soviet secret police, plus Tanzania and Iran.

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00:00:00.000 Canadian teachers are literally attending a course on how to use education for
00:00:04.080 a communist revolution and it's happening right on the Concordia University campus.
00:00:09.440 Now a group called Recess, Remaking Education as Care, Emancipation, Struggle and Solidarity,
00:00:15.680 is running a four-week course at the Concordia Student Union Lounge. It's designed for students
00:00:21.360 and working teachers and they're studying communist pedagogy in the four 20th century revolutions.
00:00:27.640 Cuba's literacy campaign, where kids as young as eight worked the fields by day and taught
00:00:33.140 literacy at night, and the Soviet labor communes run by the OGPU and NKVD, the Soviet secret police,
00:00:42.200 plus Tanzania and Iran. They view education as, quote, a tool used for sustaining revolutionary
00:00:48.360 social transformation and to generate, quote, revolutionary consciousness. Now, these aren't
00:00:54.020 just random activists. The course is marketed to and being attended by real student teachers and
00:01:00.540 working K-12 educators who want to bring these lessons into today's classrooms. Here's why it
00:01:05.820 matters for parents. Now, the phrase revolutionary consciousness is the old communist version of
00:01:12.360 what Brazilian Marxist educator Paulo Freire calls critical consciousness. Now, that's the idea
00:01:18.660 being rebranded and is now officially part of culturally relevant and responsive pedagogy.
00:01:24.020 or CRRP, the foundational principle being rolled out in teacher training programs
00:01:29.620 and classrooms across Canada, especially here in Ontario. The same core idea but different
00:01:36.740 packaging. Now these activist teachers view public education as a tool to make students
00:01:41.780 critically aware of oppression so that they can become social agents of change. So the TLDR here
00:01:48.020 is that they're brainwashing your kids to become communist revolutionaries. So while parents think
00:01:52.740 schools are teaching reading, writing, and math, teachers in those classrooms are teaching your
00:01:58.180 kids to read the world politically. Don't say I didn't warn you. For Juno News, I'm Melanie Bennett.