The most probable explanation for Lightfoot’s rush to reopen the school system is class vindictiveness towards the CTU. Lightfoot feels, correctly, that she was bested by the CTU in the 2019 strike.
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Statement of ISP on current Washington events
However shocking, these events shouldn’t surprise us. In the last few years, our sense of what is politically “normal” has been stretched.
The working class and Covid in the New Year
Many jobs are never going to comeback. This is not just the case in small businesses that have gone under. Capital is using the pandemic to reorganize itself.
International Socialism Project contribution to socialist discussion of 2021 perspectives
Our common movement can only benefit from a comradely discussion among those who are both committed to building broader struggles and opposed to the dead end of lesser evilism.
Healthcare workers fight both the virus and the employers
The length of a healthcare strike during a medical crisis is a thorny problem that unionists will need to think carefully about. Instant cries of bureaucratic betrayal may miss the mark.
Trump’s election challenges disintegrate
The fact that Trump has failed miserably in his attempt to overturn the election doesn’t mean that he will give up trying. Some impulsive gimmick such as a “Counter-Inauguration” is certainly on the cards.
A new revolutionary organization? Opening the discussion
Tactical proposals on how to advance the movement are only valuable if there exists an organization and militants to carry them out. Individual activists lack the striking power and impetus of an organization.
Marxist economics with minimal huffing and puffing
Hadas Thier’s A People’s Guide to Capitalism is written to explain Marxism to young activists in today’s America. However, this book is more than just an introduction to political economy…
The myth of Lenin’s elitism
Lenin was fundamentally anti-elitist—not in the sense of anarchists who simply deny the necessity of leadership in struggle, but in the sense of grasping that leadership is a product of the uneven development of consciousness and activity in the working class…
Engels on nature and humanity
For Marx and Engels, the possibility of ending the dialectical contradiction between man and nature and bringing about some level of harmony and ecological balance would only be possible with the abolition of the capitalist mode of production.
Trump lost, but no “blue tsunami”
The only thing that can alter that course of events is mass struggle, and a genuine commitment to political activity independent of the Democrats’ electoral calculations.
Fightbacks in the workplace today
We can see where the areas of fightback are today: the small strikes, the hospitals, for safety during the pandemic in schools, and the Teamsters’ opposition.
Bolivia: Racism defeated, the birth of a new political cycle
The rank-and-file of the social movements seem to have arrived at a clear understanding that they cannot follow the same script as before in their relations with the government.
Radiance and sunset of Podemos – reasons for a farewell
Podemos has become a plebiscitary electoral apparatus that, while it represents a part of the left, although in a diminishing way, is an impediment to the development of popular self-organization.
Poland is in revolt against its new abortion ban
Having kept Poland in a state of constant anxiety about abortion since at least 2016, the conservatives now decided to push it further, again using the Constitutional Court.
