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Krasner, don’t stand in the way of justice for Mumia!

Saturday, January 5, 2019

Rally from 12 noon to 2 p.m. at District Attorney Larry Krasner’s Office, 3 Penn. Sq. Across from Philadlephia City Hall

Mumia Abu-Jamal won a significant case before Judge Leon Tucker in a decision announced on Dec. 27, granting Abu-Jamal new rights of appeal.

Abu-Jamal’s supporters will rally to demand Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner not challenge this decision. Community activists will gather in front of the DA’s office, 3 S. Penn Sq. across from City Hall, on Saturday, Jan. 5 at 12 noon.

Current DA Krasner should cease defending former Philadelphia DA and later PA Supreme Court Judge Ron Castille’s now-discredited claim of impartiality. Furthermore, Krasner should not challenge Judge Tucker’s decision and allow Abu-Jamal to go forward with re-arguing his appeals, which Judge Tucker states “would best serve the appearance of justice.”

Pam Africa of the International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal said, “The people’s movement is responsible for this victory. A new appeal opens the door to Mumia’s freedom – a new trial or dismissal of the charges.”

Judge Tucker’s ground breaking ruling could impact many other prisoners whose appeals were similarly denied.

Tucker ruled former Pa Supreme Court Justice Ronald Castille denied Abu-Jamal fair and impartial appeals by not recusing himself from the defendant’s appeals from 1998-2012. The ruling referenced Castille’s public statements of being a “law and order” prosecutor, responsible for 45 men on death row, the support of the Fraternal Order of Police and the new evidence of Castille’s having singled out men convicted as “police killers”. It all created the appearance of bias and impropriety in the appeal process.

Judge Tucker’s ruling means that Mumia Abu-Jamal’s appeals of his 1982 conviction, that he was framed by police and prosecution manufacturing evidence of guilt and suppressing the proof of his innocence as well as other due process trial rights, are re-stored and must be re-heard in the PA appeals court.

Abu-Jamal has always maintained his innocence in the fatal shooting of police officer Daniel Faulkner. His prosecution was politically-motivated because of his Black Panther Party membership, his support of the MOVE organization and as a radical journalist. His trial was racially biased: trial judge Albert Sabo declared, “I’m gonna help them fry the n—-r.” and the prosecution excluded African Americans from the jury.

After 37 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit, the charges should be dismissed and he should be freed.

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On the 60th anniversary of the triumph of the great Cuban Revolution, led by Comandante Fidel Castro, Struggle for Socialism ★ La Lucha por el Socialismo sends warm greetings and congratulations to the Cuban people, the revolutionary government and the Cuban Communist Party.

What glorious victories and tragic setbacks the workers of the world have experienced through these last six decades! But through it all, revolutionary Cuba has been a beacon — dynamic, vibrant, inspiring — for the workers and oppressed everywhere, from Venezuela to South Africa to Palestine to the United States. Cuba shows what socialism can achieve, even under the most difficult conditions, when it’s imbued with revolutionary leadership, fighting spirit and unity of the masses.

It would be impossible to list all the accomplishments of the Revolution. For those struggling here in the belly of the beast, a few stand out. Take, for example, the neverending fight of poor and working people in the U.S. to fund adequate health care, education and housing. In Cuba, these essential human needs are the rights of all, and the world acknowledges Cuba’s leadership in these fields beyond much larger and richer countries. Nothing so embodies the Revolution’s commitment to the people as its continuing strides in maternal health and reducing infant mortality.

We honor Cuba’s commitment to internationalism, from the heroic guerrilla missions mounted by el Che and his compatriots to the role of Cuban volunteers in aiding the triumph of African liberation forces at the Battle of Cuito Cuanavale. And, of course, the tens of thousands of Cuban doctors and health care workers who continue to provide vital assistance to people around the world.

Speaking of that — we recall with gratitude Cuba’s offer to provide health care workers to aid the victims of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, an offer that was rebuffed by the criminal George W. Bush administration, which abandoned thousands of Black, Brown and white working-class families to suffer and die. We cherish Cuba’s longstanding commitment to train doctors from oppressed and low-income U.S. communities at the Latin American School of Medicine.

We remember, too, how Cuba has provided sanctuary for persecuted activists and revolutionaries from the U.S. — from Robert F. Williams to Huey P. Newton, and, of course, our beloved comrade Assata Shakur, who was granted asylum by Fidel in 1984 and remains safe today from the clutches of racist cops and prisons.

Cuba demonstrates how socialism is the system that can redress the historic injustices rooted in capitalism and earlier class societies. In Cuba, women now make up more than half of the National Popular Assembly. The rights of Afro-Cubans are protected and respected, and the lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans community has made enormous strides.

We also know that workers and revolutionaries in the U.S. carry a special responsibility to fight in defense of Cuba. From the attempted invasion of Playa Girón in 1961, to the six-decades-long criminal blockade, to Trump’s moves to reintroduce restrictions on travel, U.S. imperialism — under both Republican and Democratic administrations — has sought to undermine or outright destroy the people that dared to make a socialist revolution 90 miles from its shores.

That they have failed, time and again, is testimony to the continuing vitality of the Cuban Revolution and the loyalty and determination it inspires in progressive people around the globe.

We pledge to continue our efforts in 2019 to demand an end to the criminal U.S. blockade of Cuba and to return Guantánamo to the Cuban people.

¡Viva el pueblo cubano!

¡Hasta la victoria siempre!

Struggle for Socialism ★ La Lucha por el Socialismo
January 1, 2019

Socialistas en los Estados Unidos saludan los 60 años de la Revolución Cubana.

En el aniversario 60 del triunfo de la gran Revolución Cubana, liderada por el Comandante Fidel Castro, Struggle for Socialism ★ La Lucha por el Socialismo manda cálidos saludos y felicitaciones al pueblo de Cuba, al gobierno revolucionario y al Partido Comunista de Cuba.

¡Cuantas victorias gloriosas y reveses trágicos han experimentado lxs trabajadores del mundo en estas últimas seis décadas! Pero en medio de todo, Cuba revolucionaria ha sido una luz— dinámica, vibrante, inspiradora — para lxs trabajadores y oprimidos por todos lados, desde Venezuela y África del Sur, hasta Palestina y los Estados Unidos. Cuba demuestra lo que el Socialismo puede lograr, incluso bajo condiciones muy difíciles, cuando está conducido por un liderazgo revolucionario, un espíritu luchador y la unidad de las masas.

Sería imposible nombrar todos los logros de la Revolución. Pero para aquellxs que luchan aquí en el vientre de la bestia, algunos sobresalen. Tomemos por ejemplo, la lucha interminable de lxs pobres y lxs trabajadores en los Estados Unidos para financiar una adecuada atención de salud, educación y vivienda. En Cuba, estas necesidades humanas esenciales son el derecho de todxs, y el mundo reconoce el liderazgo de Cuba en estos campos más allá de países mucho más grandes y ricos. Nada encarna el compromiso de la Revolución con el pueblo como sus continuos avances en la salud materna y la reducción de la mortalidad infantil.

Honramos el compromiso de Cuba al internacionalismo, desde las misiones heroicas de las guerrillas montadas por el Che y sus compatriotas, hasta el rol de los voluntarios cubanos que ayudaron al triunfo de las fuerzas de liberación de África en la Batalla de Cuito Cuanavale. Y por supuesto, lxs más de 10 mil médicos cubanos y trabajadores de salud que continúan dando asistencia vital a personas de todo el mundo.

Y hablando de eso — recordamos con gratitud la oferta de Cuba de proveer trabajadorxs de salud a las victimas del huracán Katrina in 2005, oferta que fue rechazada por la administración criminal de George Bush quien abandonó a miles de familias de clase obrera negras, latinas y blancas, dejándolas sufrir y morir. Apreciamos el prolongado compromiso de Cuba a entrenar doctores de comunidades oprimidas y de bajos ingresos en los Estados Unidos en la Escuela Latinoamericana de Medicina.

Recordamos también como Cuba ha provisto santuario a activistas y revolucionarios perseguidxs de los Estados Unidos—desde Robert F. Williams hasta Huey P. Newton, y por supuesto a nuestra querida compañera Assata Shakur, a quien Fidel le dio asilo en 1984 y quien permanece a salvo hoy de las garras de policías y prisiones racistas estadounidenses.

Cuba demuestra cómo el Socialismo es el sistema que puede reparar las injusticias históricas arraigadas en el capitalismo y las anteriores sociedades de clases. En Cuba, las mujeres ahora componen más de la mitad de la Asamblea Nacional del Poder Popular. Los derechos de lxs afrocubanos son protegidos y respetados y la comunidad gay, lesbiana, bisexual y trans ha avanzado grandes pasos.

También sabemos que lxs obreros y revolucionarios en los Estados Unidos tienen una responsabilidad especial de luchar en defensa de Cuba. Desde la invasión de Playa Girón en 1961 y las seis largas décadas criminales del bloqueo, hasta los movimientos de Trump para reintroducir restricciones a los viajes, el imperialismo estadounidense — bajo ambas administraciones republicanas y demócratas — han tratado de socavar o destruir completamente al pueblo que se atrevió a hacer una revolución socialista a 90 millas de sus costas.

El que hayan fracasado una y otra vez, es testimonio de la continua vitalidad de la Revolución Cubana y la lealtad y determinación que inspira en los pueblos progresistas en todo el globo.

Nos comprometemos a continuar nuestros esfuerzos en 2019 para exigir el fin del bloqueo criminal de los Estados Unidos hacia Cuba y a que regresen Guantánamo al pueblo cubano.

¡Viva el pueblo cubano!

¡Hasta la victoria siempre!

Struggle for Socialism ★ La Lucha por el Socialismo
1 de enero de 2019

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En el aniversario 60 del triunfo de la gran Revolución Cubana, liderada por el Comandante Fidel Castro, Struggle for Socialism ★ La Lucha por el Socialismo manda cálidos saludos y felicitaciones al pueblo de Cuba, al gobierno revolucionario y al Partido Comunista de Cuba.

¡Cuantas victorias gloriosas y reveses trágicos han experimentado lxs trabajadores del mundo en estas últimas seis décadas! Pero en medio de todo, Cuba revolucionaria ha sido una luz— dinámica, vibrante, inspiradora — para lxs trabajadores y oprimidos por todos lados, desde Venezuela y África del Sur, hasta Palestina y los Estados Unidos. Cuba demuestra lo que el Socialismo puede lograr, incluso bajo condiciones muy difíciles, cuando está conducido por un liderazgo revolucionario, un espíritu luchador y la unidad de las masas.

Sería imposible nombrar todos los logros de la Revolución. Pero para aquellxs que luchan aquí en el vientre de la bestia, algunos sobresalen. Tomemos por ejemplo, la lucha interminable de lxs pobres y lxs trabajadores en los Estados Unidos para financiar una adecuada atención de salud, educación y vivienda. En Cuba, estas necesidades humanas esenciales son el derecho de todxs, y el mundo reconoce el liderazgo de Cuba en estos campos más allá de países mucho más grandes y ricos. Nada encarna el compromiso de la Revolución con el pueblo como sus continuos avances en la salud materna y la reducción de la mortalidad infantil.

Honramos el compromiso de Cuba al internacionalismo, desde las misiones heroicas de las guerrillas montadas por el Che y sus compatriotas, hasta el rol de los voluntarios cubanos que ayudaron al triunfo de las fuerzas de liberación de África en la Batalla de Cuito Cuanavale. Y por supuesto, lxs más de 10 mil médicos cubanos y trabajadores de salud que continúan dando asistencia vital a personas de todo el mundo.

Y hablando de eso — recordamos con gratitud la oferta de Cuba de proveer trabajadorxs de salud a las victimas del huracán Katrina in 2005, oferta que fue rechazada por la administración criminal de George Bush quien abandonó a miles de familias de clase obrera negras, latinas y blancas, dejándolas sufrir y morir. Apreciamos el prolongado compromiso de Cuba a entrenar doctores de comunidades oprimidas y de bajos ingresos en los Estados Unidos en la Escuela Latinoamericana de Medicina.

Recordamos también como Cuba ha provisto santuario a activistas y revolucionarios perseguidxs de los Estados Unidos—desde Robert F. Williams hasta Huey P. Newton, y por supuesto a nuestra querida compañera Assata Shakur, a quien Fidel le dio asilo en 1984 y quien permanece a salvo hoy de las garras de policías y prisiones racistas estadounidenses.

Cuba demuestra cómo el Socialismo es el sistema que puede reparar las injusticias históricas arraigadas en el capitalismo y las anteriores sociedades de clases. En Cuba, las mujeres ahora componen más de la mitad de la Asamblea Nacional del Poder Popular. Los derechos de lxs afrocubanos son protegidos y respetados y la comunidad gay, lesbiana, bisexual y trans ha avanzado grandes pasos.

También sabemos que lxs obreros y revolucionarios en los Estados Unidos tienen una responsabilidad especial de luchar en defensa de Cuba. Desde la invasión de Playa Girón en 1961 y las seis largas décadas criminales del bloqueo, hasta los movimientos de Trump para reintroducir restricciones a los viajes, el imperialismo estadounidense — bajo ambas administraciones republicanas y demócratas — han tratado de socavar o destruir completamente al pueblo que se atrevió a hacer una revolución socialista a 90 millas de sus costas.

El que hayan fracasado una y otra vez, es testimonio de la continua vitalidad de la Revolución Cubana y la lealtad y determinación que inspira en los pueblos progresistas en todo el globo.

Nos comprometemos a continuar nuestros esfuerzos en 2019 para exigir el fin del bloqueo criminal de los Estados Unidos hacia Cuba y a que regresen Guantánamo al pueblo cubano.

¡Viva el pueblo cubano!

¡Hasta la victoria siempre!

Struggle for Socialism ★ La Lucha por el Socialismo
1 de enero de 2019

Socialists in the U.S. salute 60 years of the Cuban Revolution

On the 60th anniversary of the triumph of the great Cuban Revolution, led by Comandante Fidel Castro, Struggle for Socialism ★ La Lucha por el Socialismo sends warm greetings and congratulations to the Cuban people, the revolutionary government and the Cuban Communist Party.

What glorious victories and tragic setbacks the workers of the world have experienced through these last six decades! But through it all, revolutionary Cuba has been a beacon — dynamic, vibrant, inspiring — for the workers and oppressed everywhere, from Venezuela to South Africa to Palestine to the United States. Cuba shows what socialism can achieve, even under the most difficult conditions, when it’s imbued with revolutionary leadership, fighting spirit and unity of the masses.

It would be impossible to list all the accomplishments of the Revolution. For those struggling here in the belly of the beast, a few stand out. Take, for example, the neverending fight of poor and working people in the U.S. to fund adequate health care, education and housing. In Cuba, these essential human needs are the rights of all, and the world acknowledges Cuba’s leadership in these fields beyond much larger and richer countries. Nothing so embodies the Revolution’s commitment to the people as its continuing strides in maternal health and reducing infant mortality.

We honor Cuba’s commitment to internationalism, from the heroic guerrilla missions mounted by el Che and his compatriots to the role of Cuban volunteers in aiding the triumph of African liberation forces at the Battle of Cuito Cuanavale. And, of course, the tens of thousands of Cuban doctors and health care workers who continue to provide vital assistance to people around the world.

Speaking of that — we recall with gratitude Cuba’s offer to provide health care workers to aid the victims of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, an offer that was rebuffed by the criminal George W. Bush administration, which abandoned thousands of Black, Brown and white working-class families to suffer and die. We cherish Cuba’s longstanding commitment to train doctors from oppressed and low-income U.S. communities at the Latin American School of Medicine.

We remember, too, how Cuba has provided sanctuary for persecuted activists and revolutionaries from the U.S. — from Robert F. Williams to Huey P. Newton, and, of course, our beloved comrade Assata Shakur, who was granted asylum by Fidel in 1984 and remains safe today from the clutches of racist cops and prisons.

Cuba demonstrates how socialism is the system that can redress the historic injustices rooted in capitalism and earlier class societies. In Cuba, women now make up more than half of the National Popular Assembly. The rights of Afro-Cubans are protected and respected, and the lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans community has made enormous strides.

We also know that workers and revolutionaries in the U.S. carry a special responsibility to fight in defense of Cuba. From the attempted invasion of Playa Girón in 1961, to the six-decades-long criminal blockade, to Trump’s moves to reintroduce restrictions on travel, U.S. imperialism — under both Republican and Democratic administrations — has sought to undermine or outright destroy the people that dared to make a socialist revolution 90 miles from its shores.

That they have failed, time and again, is testimony to the continuing vitality of the Cuban Revolution and the loyalty and determination it inspires in progressive people around the globe.

We pledge to continue our efforts in 2019 to demand an end to the criminal U.S. blockade of Cuba and to return Guantánamo to the Cuban people.

¡Viva el pueblo cubano!

¡Hasta la victoria siempre!

Struggle for Socialism ★ La Lucha por el Socialismo
January 1, 2019

“Struggle for Socialism/La Lucha por el Socialismo,” a newly-established Marxist-Leninist publication in the U.S., congratulates the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) on its 50th anniversary. We send our warmest revolutionary greetings and deepest solidarity to all members and supporters of the CPP in their struggle for peace and liberation in the Philippines.

The CPP was founded on Dec. 26, 1968, in order to continue the unfinished revolution started by the Katipunan in 1896 and to continue the struggle for national liberation and democracy against U.S. imperialism and the local reactionary classes of big compradors, landlords and bureaucrat capitalists.

Today, the CPP holds broad support among a significant section of Filipino people. This is in part because of its ability to convince the masses of people of the correctness of its program — specifically, genuine land reform and national industrialization. The workers and peasants of the Philippines understand that these are real solutions to the problems of poverty, joblessness and exploitation. This support from the Filipino people is what has allowed the CPP to grow and strengthen for so long.

As a neocolonial client of U.S. imperialism, the Rodrigo Duterte regime enjoys material and political support from Washington, especially in the form of funds for the Philippine army and police. These are the same military and police forces that have been given free reign by Duterte to kill anyone they suspect of being subversives. Duterte has refused to continue the peace talks with the CPP that began with his presidency, thus removing the possibility for a peaceful solution. He has opted for an all-out war on Filipino workers and peasants.

In its 50 years, the Communist Party of the Philippines has achieved incredible victories for the workers and peasants. Under the direction of the CPP, the National Democratic Front, consisting of 18 allied organizations, has ousted two reactionary regimes: first, the fascist Marcos dictatorship in 1986, and then the corrupt Estrada regime in 2001.

Additionally, the growth and strength of the New People’s Army (NPA) has allowed for the building of local organs of political power nationwide, meaning that there are territories throughout the Philippines operating under a people’s government. The NPA is assisted by tens of thousands of people, operating in more than 110 guerrilla fronts in 17 regions and 73 out of 81 Philippine provinces.

Revolutionaries in the U.S. can help to further the struggle in the Philippines by opposing the U.S. war machine and toppling imperialism via a strong and broad anti-war, anti-imperialist movement here.

Happy 50th anniversary and deepest solidarity to the Communist Party of the Philippines. Struggle onward!

There are dozens of reasons to stop the super racist, sexual predator, union buster, war criminal, evil Donald Trump. But Russia didn’t put this rich pig in the White House.

• It was the U.S. Supreme Court that gutted the Voting Rights Act ― not Russia. It wasn’t Russia that prevented tens of thousands of African-Americans from voting in Florida and Georgia during the midterm elections.
• The Electoral College that made Donald Trump president, while he got 3 million fewer votes than Hillary Clinton, wasn’t a Russian invention either. Blame slavemaster James Madison, who devised the Electoral College to protect slavery in 1787.
• The capitalist media gave Trump nearly $3 billion of free publicity. (Market Watch, May 6, 2016) It was the big business media giant NBC that made this racist clown a nationally known figure by giving him his own TV show, “The Apprentice.”
• The CIA claims Russian agents hacked Democratic National Committee files and gave the info to WikiLeaks. But Craig Murray, a former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, said the material came from a DNC whistleblower. All it takes is a thumb drive and access to the files.
• WikiLeaks revealed the truth about the DNC sabotaging Bernie Sanders’ campaign. That’s like Chelsea Manning’s truth telling about U.S. war crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq.
• Why should anybody believe the CIA, the world’s bloodiest terrorist outfit? It was CIA agent Donald Rickard who tipped off the apartheid secret police who then arrested Nelson Mandela. (BBC, May 15, 2016) Lying former CIA director George Tenet said it was a “slam dunk” case that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
• It’s actually Wall Street that has been intervening in Russia for over a century. U.S. troops were sent to try to strangle the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. More recently, the Pentagon spent over $5.5 trillion on nuclear weapons aimed at the Soviet Union, according to the Nuclear Threat Initiative. That’s enough dough to provide $300,000 houses to over 18 million poor families.
• Never forget that 27 million Soviet people, from 150 nationalities, gave their lives to defeat Hitler. Eighty percent of the Nazi war machine’s casualties were on the eastern front. Overthrowing the socialist Soviet Union was an immense tragedy for poor and working people everywhere, just like the defeat of Reconstruction was for Black people in the U.S.
• U.S. capitalists continued to meddle after the Soviet Union’s breakup in 1991. U.S. election consultants boasted that they helped re-elect Russian President Boris Yeltsin in 1996. (Los Angeles Times, July 9, 1996) The Pentagon brass still want to occupy and exploit the Russian Federation’s six million square miles.

We need a mass movement of millions to stop the Trump agenda of bigotry, cutbacks and war. Billionaires and their generals want to divert our righteous anger against injustices here at home to target Russia. Don’t fall for it!

Hundreds of union members and their supporters rallied in Boston in solidarity with 1,250 National Grid gas workers who have been locked out of their jobs for nearly six months. The lockout began after the union rejected a contract offer that would have increased workers’ health care costs and eliminated the existing pension plan. The workers are represented by USW Local 12012.

Two California teachers unions are on the verge of launching the West Coast’s biggest teacher walkout since 1989. At stake is far more than fair wages for school workers. Contract demands include smaller class sizes and less testing, as well as the addition of necessary health and social services staff.

The United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA) and the Oakland Education Association (OEA) declared Saturday, Dec. 15, a day of solidarity.

Read more at Thousands of Teachers March Amid Looming Strike and Los Angeles and Oakland Teachers Rally Amid Deadlocked Contract Talks

The internet monopoly capitalists — Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft — look a lot like the robber barons of the 19th century when it comes to workers’ rights. Not one of them has recognized a labor union.

Amazon has blocked all efforts to unionize since its founding in 1994. Time magazine headlined a story in 2014: “How Amazon crushed the union movement.”

Amazon, with a global workforce of 566,000, has the highest employee turnover rate of all the Fortune 500 companies but one. These workers want a union. On Dec. 11, workers at Amazon’s new New York City warehouse announced a new organizing drive.

Read “Employees at Amazon’s New NYC Warehouse Launch Union Push.”

It is hard to count demonstrators spread out across thousands of mobilizations, but it seems that over half a million people were involved in “Act Four” of the Yellow Vests mobilization in France on Saturday, Dec. 8.

In Bordeaux, a huge joint demonstration uniting university students and Yellow Vests chanted: “Students and Yellow Vests! Same Macron! Same struggle!” In Toulouse, Lyon, Saint Etienne, Marseilles, Dieppe and dozens of other towns, many thousands marched. Even in smaller places like Albi or Auch, there was a fine Yellow Vests demonstration.

A lively picket was organized in front of the factory in Sarthe, which makes tear gas grenades. At Saint-Avold, in the east of France, a replica of a guillotine was placed at a major roundabout. A few days earlier in the port of Saint Nazaire in Brittany, demonstrators repainted the banks of the town in bright yellow, while a cake shop owner in the south started selling special lemon eclairs in the form of a Yellow Vests protester!

A people’s movement like this can never stand still: It has to keep rising or it will quickly decline. People make sacrifices to go out and occupy the roundabouts and motorway toll booths, they find the time and money to go to Paris or to the regional capital for the Saturday demonstration, and they live the stressful life of activism. But they want results. Although the togetherness and the dignity of resistance are important to people, unless some progress is seen each week, the temptation to go home, watch TV and repaint your bathroom instead will tend to win out.

Read at Yellow Vests: Act Four: Where is France Going?

The 500 Chicago charter school teachers at 15 UNO/Acero charter schools reached a tentative agreement with management on December 9. The strike has been suspended.

Chris Baehrend, the chairperson of the Charter Division of the Chicago Teachers Union, said: “This is a victory for students, parents, teachers and all staff. Because we stayed united, we won smaller class sizes, sanctuary schools, a reduced school year and equal pay with district [non-charter] teachers.”

Read the union’s announcement at CTU strikers reach tentative agreement with UNO/Acero management