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The Unions Our Educators & Communities Deserve May 03, 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM EST Zoom Eric Blanc A former high school teacher, Eric Blanc is a doctoral candidate at NYU Sociology and the author of Red State Revolt: The Teachers’ Strike Wave and Working-Class Politics. During the West Virginia, Oklahoma, Arizona, Denver, Oakland, Los Angeles, and Chicago public education strikes, Blanc was Jacobin’s on-the-ground correspondent. Dr. Lois Weiner A former career teacher, now Professor Emerita of New Jersey City University, currently on the editorial board of New Politics, Dr. Lois Weiner, resea...

An Interview with Bill Fletcher by E. San Juan, Jr. Amid the horrendous pandemic ravaging of the globalized political-economy of Europe and North America, particularly the imperial U.S. heartland with close to half-a-million deaths, peripheral nations remain negligible. The neoliberal consensus has collapsed, inaugurating a new era of trade wars and ecological disasters. Such “shithole” countries like the Philippines, to use President Trump’s rubric, rarely enter public attention. For over half a century, the Philippines was the only U.S. colony in Asia—now a neocolony—trumpeted as...