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Los Angeles Teachers’ Road to Durable Power, Part 1: 2014–2016

Alex Caputo-Pearl Convergence
UTLA’s transformation story surfaces critical lessons that respond to the most important question facing the labor movement today: How do we ensure that the recent years of labor upsurge across economic sectors becomes durable, transformative power?

This Week in People’s History, Sept 4–10

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Photo of workers and supervisors in a munitions factory
Death for Export (1934), The Die Is Cast (1774), The Shot Not Heard Around the World (1774), Yankee Doodle Shafts Native Americans (1783), Jim Crow Must Go, but ‘Voluntarily’ (1954), Boston Police Strike Out (1919), Give Us Liberty or Death! (1739)

Will the Labor Upsurge Find Its Political Voice?

Barry Eidlin Jacobin
In the United States and Canada, we’ve seen an increase in labor militancy. This upsurge is a chance to inject working-class politics into the political arena, which has so far been mostly unresponsive to workers’ demands.

Are Democrats Actually Listening to Jesse Jackson?

Josh Kurtz Maryland Matters
Party leaders pay tribute to civil rights icon, but they don’t always practice what he preached. Jackson ran insurgent campaigns in 1984 and 1988, and the only thing that has come close since are the presidential runs of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.