1 | P a g e Editorial: Critical Education, Critical Pedagogies, Marxist Education

Regular readers, contributors and reviewers of JCEPS are well aware of the journal’s explicit political project to contribute to and advance “Socialist / Marxist transformative policy for schooling and education from a number of Radical Left perspectives ” (see www.jceps.com). As a dedicated site for broad leftist critique of education and capitalism, and for transformative alternatives in policy and practice, JCEPS is a great resource for critical educators and activists. The importance of this sort of work, building theory, documenting and reflecting of radical practice, and imagining educational alternatives for a non-capitalist future, is clear for those of us committed to the transformation of capitalism. We are involved in an ongoing struggle to apply education to the project of transforming capitalism from within neoliberal capitalist structures and institutions, which includes goals of developing students ’ critical consciousness of and participation in this political project; and of imagining educational forms and practices for and within a post-capitalist future. Paulo Freire (2012) succinctly expressed the liberatory and utopian character of this sort of work, writing that: It is certain that men and women can change the world for the better, can make it les