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LA teachers call for workers, parents, students to join strike rally on Jan. 14

Vol. 83/No. 3 - January 21, 2019

Thousands of teachers and supporters rallied in Los Angeles Dec. 15 in preparation for strike for new contract. Contract expired in June 2017. Union is pressing for smaller class size, a 6.5 percent pay raise, and hiring of more school nurses, counselors and librarians.

LOS ANGELES — Daily preparations for a Jan. 14 strike by 34,000 teachers here have intensified as the United Teachers Los Angeles union reaches out for support from parents, students and fellow union members. Negotiations with the school board continue.…

Fight to extend right to vote for ex-prisoners!

Vol. 83/No. 3 - January 21, 2019

The statement below was released Jan. 9 by Amy Husk, Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor in Kentucky. Former prisoners in Florida proudly asserted their newly won rights by lining up to register to vote Jan. 8. Working people across…

New book ‘In Defense of the US Working Class’

SWP leader Mary-Alice Waters addresses: ‘Can US workers make a socialist revolution?’

Vol. 83/No. 3 - January 21, 2019

Members of panel speaking on U.S. class struggle at International May Day conference in Havana, April 2018. From left, Willie Head, Omari Musa, Alyson Kennedy, Jacob Perasso, Mary-Alice Waters.

In Defense of the US Working Class, a new book by Mary-Alice Waters, is being released in January. It features the talk by Waters at an international conference in Havana organized by the Cuban History Institute and the Central Organization…