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
The federal government has made it clear that no one is coming to…
Statement in Solidarity with the Chicago Teachers and Staff
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
Hear me out: saving the lives of the working class is good, actually.…
Why Chicago Needs to Pass Just Cause for Eviction
On Saturday, August 21 the Chicago Housing Justice League, a coalition of housing…
Red Star Bulletin Issue #21
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
“You may (God help us all) be the best that will be given…
Tuesday Thoughts With Sean – Unity?
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
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?
Yesterday the United States reported over 3,000 deaths from COVID in a single…
A Tangled Web: The Cruelty of For-Profit Health Insurance
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.
As a system that values profit over the well-being of its people, the…
RSL#10 Pain of the Pandemic Comes from Capitalism
Hadas Thier, Author of A People's Guide to Capitalism (@HadasThier, @haymarketbooks), talks with…
RSL#09 Solidarity, Not Charity: Mutual Aid in Chicago
Caitlin Brady, an activist and organizer of Irving Park Mutual Aid, joins Sarah…
How Milwaukee’s Sewer Socialists Prepared the City for a Pandemic
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
The Right to Recovery coalition is working on legislation to ensure public health,…
RSL#06: Hasty Reopening Serves the Right Wing War on Workers
Sarah Lazare (@sarahlazare), reporter and web editor for In These Times, joins Red…