After widely disliked incumbent Rahm Emanuel dropped out of the Chicago mayoral race last September, the city’s Democratic establishment hoped to use the 2019 city elections to revitalize the image of its pro-corporate politics. Throughout...
Read More →Student Solidarity Sickout On February 8, over 300 students from at least five high schools including Skyline High and Oakland Tech marched on the school district headquarters chanting “Oakland Schools United will Never be Defeated.”...
Read More →On February 26, 2018, following the break-down of labor negotiations that have lasted for more than one year, members of the Graduate Employees’ Organization (GEO), Local 6300 IFT/AFT AFL-CIO at the University of Illinois in...
Read More →West Virginia Teachers Must Win! The Labor Movement Can Push Back Anti-Union Attacks What follows is the statement of solidarity that Socialist Alternative members are circulating at the West Virginia Capitol building in Charleston. You...
Read More →After over a week of protests and statewide strikes, West Virginia teachers returned to the Statehouse this Saturday to continue demanding higher wages and an end to skyrocketing health insurance costs. Socialist Alternative members joined...
Read More →400 Seattle public school bus drivers, members of Teamsters local 174, have been on strike against the corporate bus transportation company, First Student, since February 1. On February 7, the Seattle Teachers Association staged a...
Read More →February 6, 2018 Dear Superintendent Larry Nyland, Seattle School Board Directors, and General Counsel Noel Treat; As a Seattle City Councilmember representing thousands of children, working parents, and school employees, I am increasingly concerned by...
Read More →Originally a guest editorial in The Stranger. As an elected representative of Seattle’s working people, a member of the American Federation of Teachers, and a socialist, I stand in solidarity with the struggle of the...
Read More →On January 5, independent trade unions in Iran issued a statement in support of the mass protests against austerity and dictatorship that began at the end of last year. The statement was issued in the...
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Read More →After widely disliked incumbent Rahm Emanuel dropped out of the Chicago mayoral race last September, the city’s Democratic establishment hoped to use the 2019 city elections to revitalize the image of its pro-corporate politics. Throughout...
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