This paper examines and critiques the major impacts of national and global (neo-liberal) education policies during the current intensification of the rule and demands of neo- liberal capital. Such an analysis assumes greater urgency because of the likely progress of the World Trade Organisation and its aims to further `liberalise' `trade in services' (such as education) in the coming period.It develops from research I have been conducting in 2004-5 for the International Labour Organisation, the Public Services International and Education International, investigating the implications for workers' socio-economic securities due to the (neo-) liberalisation of education, focusing on the schooling and further education sectors. Section 1 examines the relationship between education and Capital, identifying three plans Capital has for education. It also summarises the salient effects of global `free trade' and the GATS (General Agreement on Trade in Services) on schooling. It views the intentions and effects of such policies as an intensification of `class war from above', the war of capital on national and global working classes.Section 2 examines the impacts of global (neo-) liberalisation on education workers' securities- their pay/ salaries, conditions of employment, stresses and pressures at work, and their work identity and status. It also examines the impacts on the rights and powers of education trade unions. Section 3 examines the impacts of liberalization in terms of equalities within states. Firstly, this section examines the impacts on student access- the distributional aspects of state or public sector service provision in terms of who `delivers' or operates schooling and further education, where, and to whom. Secondly, this section examines the deepening of `raced' and gendered social class educational and subsequent economic and social inequalities within `liberalising' states in both the developed world and the developing world. The paper ends by calling for and giving examples of resistance to the global (neo-) liberal capitalist agenda in schooling and education.Case study examples will be drawn globally, but in particular from England and Wales, the Republic of Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Finland and states in central and Eastern Europe. The responsibility for the analysis and conclusions are my own rather than those of the organizations for whom I carried out the initial survey and research.