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Bringing back child labor

May 18, 2019 Stephen Millies
The capitalist drive to turn back the clock includes bringing back child labor. The wealthy and powerful want to return to the “good old days” when millions of girls and boys were exploited in farms, […]
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May Day 2019

May 13, 2019 Struggle - La Lucha
May Day celebrations this year marked the many struggles that working people are waging against endless U.S. wars, both internationally and here, against workers facing militarized police and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. But the […]
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An Amazon worker tells all

April 21, 2019 Sharon Black, former Amazon worker
There are few things that illustrate the ethical bankruptcy of capitalism as much as Jeff Bezos’ obscene amassed wealth. Bezos is the richest person in the world, raking in $236 million a minute, with a […]
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Teachers and communities unite to win

March 5, 2019 Scott Scheffer
March 2 — After seven days on strike, members of the Oakland Education Association (OEA) have reached a tentative deal in what seems a resounding victory! A vote to ratify the deal is scheduled to […]
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What was won in Los Angeles teachers’ strike

January 26, 2019 John Parker
For almost two years the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) and Superintendent Austin Beutner, whose background is business and not education, had rejected proposals to invest in public schools. They rejected the teachers’ demands […]
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Los Angeles teachers’ strike vs. school privatization

January 26, 2019 Struggle - La Lucha
United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA), representing more than 30,000 teachers, counselors, librarians, nurses and other school staff, waged a militant six-day strike in mid-January. They won enormous grassroots support from students, parents, the labor movement […]
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LA teachers and community unite

January 19, 2019 Scott Scheffer and John Parker
Jan. 18 — Los Angeles shook this week. It wasn’t the shifting of tectonic plates that made the earth move, but the shifting of class forces. Working-class people of all nationalities came out in the […]
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Los Angeles teachers’ strike bulletin – Jan. 16, 2019

January 18, 2019 Struggle - La Lucha
On Wednesday, the third day of the United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) strike, picket lines remained strong — while more cracks showed in the armor of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) bosses headed […]
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Los Angeles teachers’ strike bulletin – Jan. 15, 2019

January 17, 2019 Struggle - La Lucha
If the first day of the United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) strike was dramatic, then the second truly showed the strength of the union and its supporters. UTLA President Alex Caputo-Pearl, speaking to union members, […]
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Los Angeles teachers’ strike bulletin – Jan. 14, 2019

January 16, 2019 Struggle - La Lucha
Jan. 14 — Today, some 27,000 members and supporters of United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) picketed school sites on the rainy first morning of the Los Angeles teachers’ strike, then gathered for a huge rally […]