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Political opponents unite in defeat

Political opponents unite in defeat Voters take down two fighters on Madison city council Expand Incumbent Alds. Rebecca Kemble and Paul Skidmore both lost to challengers in the April 6 election. The city council’s staunchest backer of the police was defeated in the April 6 election. So was one of the city’s most progressive reformers.  Political newcomer Nikki Conklin ousted 10-term incumbent Paul Skidmore with 56 percent of the vote in a contentious and expensive race on the city’s far west side. Skidmore was strongly backed by the Madison police union which in a February press release called him “the undisputed leader” on the council for “working to meet the needs of public safety in Madison.” Skidmore leaned hard into a pro-police message in his campaign literature; one piece features a quote from former Madison police Chief Mike Koval — “Defunding the Police Plans are putting you and me in danger” — and a photo of a

10 years since the mass protests in Wisconsin

10 years since the mass protests in Wisconsin It has been 10 years since the eruption of mass protests in the US state of Wisconsin provoked by anti-worker legislation introduced by Republican Governor Scott Walker. The mass upsurge, coming after decades in which the class struggle had been suppressed in the United States by the unions, contains important lessons for today under conditions of unprecedented social polarization in the midst of a deadly, uncontained pandemic. The protests in Wisconsin that erupted in February 2011 coincided with an international upsurge in the class struggle in the midst of a deepening crisis of the world capitalist order following the 2008 global financial crash. US-backed dictators in Egypt and Tunisia were toppled, and protests against austerity and social inequality spread across a number of countries, including Spain, Greece, Portugal, Italy and Israel.

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