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Teachers Describe Unsafe Working Conditions At Chicago Public Schools

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Teachers Describe Unsafe Working Conditions At Chicago Public Schools

by Ken Barrios and Keith Schnabel | January 13, 2022January 13, 2022

Chicago Public Schools returned to in-person learning this Wednesday following a heavily publicized work action in which teachers demanded a safer work environment amidst a record-setting COVID surge. However, teachers allege, CPS…

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No One Is Coming To Save Us: Building A Fighting Left Against Capitalism And COVID-19

No One Is Coming To Save Us: Building A Fighting Left Against Capitalism And COVID-19

by Emily H. and Em G. | January 12, 2022January 12, 2022
The federal government has made it clear that no one is coming to…
Statement in Solidarity with the Chicago Teachers and Staff

Statement in Solidarity with the Chicago Teachers and Staff

by Chicago DSA | January 5, 2022January 5, 2022
The Chicago Democratic Socialists of America stands in solidarity with the demands of…
Neutrality On Mask & Vaccine Mandates Is A Betrayal of The Working Class

Neutrality On Mask & Vaccine Mandates Is A Betrayal of The Working Class

by Chris O. | December 2, 2021December 2, 2021
Hear me out: saving the lives of the working class is good, actually.…
Why Chicago Needs to Pass Just Cause for Eviction

Why Chicago Needs to Pass Just Cause for Eviction

by Annie Howard | September 9, 2021September 9, 2021
On Saturday, August 21 the Chicago Housing Justice League, a coalition of housing…
Red Star Bulletin Issue #21

Red Star Bulletin Issue #21

by Red Star Bulletin | February 24, 2021February 9, 2022
Welcome to Issue #21 of the Red Star Bulletin! The aim of this…
500,000 COVID-19 Deaths and the Threat of Politics as Usual

500,000 COVID-19 Deaths and the Threat of Politics as Usual

by Sean Estelle | February 23, 2021October 6, 2021
“You may (God help us all) be the best that will be given…
Tuesday Thoughts With Sean – Unity?

Tuesday Thoughts With Sean – Unity?

by Sean Estelle | January 26, 2021
Last week, on Wednesday January 20th, with much pomp and circumstance, Joe Biden…
The Fight for Safety is the Fight for Equity – An Interview with Members of the Chicago Teachers Union

The Fight for Safety is the Fight for Equity – An Interview with Members of the Chicago Teachers Union

by Jordan Weber | January 11, 2021October 6, 2021
This week Chicago Public Schools (CPS) began forcing some of their teachers and…
In US, 3243 Died From COVID Yesterday. Without A Lockdown, How Many More Deaths Will We See?

In US, 3243 Died From COVID Yesterday. Without A Lockdown, How Many More Deaths Will We See?

by Nick Hussong | December 10, 2020
Yesterday the United States reported over 3,000 deaths from COVID in a single…
A Tangled Web: The Cruelty of For-Profit Health Insurance

A Tangled Web: The Cruelty of For-Profit Health Insurance

by Vivien Schwarz | November 13, 2020October 6, 2021
The coronavirus pandemic has exposed the weaknesses and dysfunction plaguing multiple realms of…
Will Bidencare Save Us From The Wreckage of COVID-19? Probably Not.

Will Bidencare Save Us From The Wreckage of COVID-19? Probably Not.

by Aidan Smith | October 28, 2020October 6, 2021
As a system that values profit over the well-being of its people, the…
RSL#10 Pain of the Pandemic Comes from Capitalism

RSL#10 Pain of the Pandemic Comes from Capitalism

by Midwest Socialist | June 29, 2020October 6, 2021
Hadas Thier, Author of A People's Guide to Capitalism (@HadasThier, @haymarketbooks), talks with…
RSL#09 Solidarity, Not Charity: Mutual Aid in Chicago

RSL#09 Solidarity, Not Charity: Mutual Aid in Chicago

by Midwest Socialist | June 21, 2020January 22, 2022
Caitlin Brady, an activist and organizer of Irving Park Mutual Aid, joins Sarah…
How Milwaukee’s Sewer Socialists Prepared the City for a Pandemic

How Milwaukee’s Sewer Socialists Prepared the City for a Pandemic

by Marco Rosaire Rossi | June 10, 2020October 6, 2021
Historians and epidemiologists have compared the COVID-19 outbreak to the Spanish Flu of…
RSL#07 Human Need not Corporate Greed: A Right to Recovery

RSL#07 Human Need not Corporate Greed: A Right to Recovery

by Midwest Socialist | May 24, 2020May 24, 2020
The Right to Recovery coalition is working on legislation to ensure public health,…
RSL#06: Hasty Reopening Serves the Right Wing War on Workers

RSL#06: Hasty Reopening Serves the Right Wing War on Workers

by Midwest Socialist | May 17, 2020January 22, 2022
Sarah Lazare (@sarahlazare), reporter and web editor for In These Times, joins Red…
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