Negotiations stall in Chicago amid nationwide campaign to open schools
For the past month, the nationwide, bipartisan effort to force a return to in-person learning has centered on the country’s third largest school district, Chicago Public Schools (CPS). The resistance of rank-and-file educators in the city has inspired educators and huge sections of workers across the US and globally. Every effort is being made by the political establishment and the bourgeois media to vilify Chicago educators and wear down their opposition, to pave the way for mass school reopenings at the most dangerous stage of the pandemic in the interests of corporate profits.
As CCP virus cases continue to spike, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, cast doubt on President Joe Biden’s goal to reopen schools within 100 days, saying, it “may not happen”, because of mitigating circumstances.
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Unions, Democracy, and the Third Camp
Comparing Lessons from New Politics and Herman Benson
The decline of labor has been accompanied by an opportunity we have not seen in decades. A new generation of socialists, many of them members of Democratic Socialists of American, are enthusiastically discussing the role of the working class and unions in the fight for socialism. Making the best use of this development requires critically analyzing the past several decades of struggle among labor leftists about how a commitment to socialism “from below” might inform our union activity. In this article I try to frame and spur that debate by comparing the perspective of Herman Benson with material published by other contributors to