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Learning from the Chicago teachers' strike

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Published on Saturday, 22 September 2012 02:27

"This strike pushed the boundaries of contract unionism and took a moment in which the teachers union in Chicago was battling concessions and a mayor, Rahm Emanuel, who was intent on further eroding the power of the union and advancing a billionaire backed “education reform” agenda even further and turned it into a movement to fight for an improved education system and more broadly to fight for a city that puts people ahead of profit. It has been a long time since people have seen a union, in the public or the private sector, use the most powerful weapon in the arsenal of labour, the strike, to fight back... The biggest lesson for labour, especially public sector unions, is that reaching out to the public for support is all well and good but really winning their support requires that you make your struggle their struggle by fighting on broader class and antiracist terms."

Read Peter Brogan's article about the Chicago teachers' strike here.

Teachers strike in Chicago: a crucial battle

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Published on Tuesday, 11 September 2012 00:54

The Chicago Teachers' Union strike that began Sept. 10 could have a big impact -- read about it in this article in Labor Notes and check out this piece from a teacher's blog.

Understanding capitalism -- a video series worth watching

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Published on Friday, 24 August 2012 15:36

Check out Kapitalism101 for an ongoing series of videos that aim to introduce people to Marx's analysis of capitalism in a way that tries to be both accessible and serious about sometimes-challenging concepts needed to understand what goes on beneath the surface of everyday life in capitalist societies.

Some of what we'll be publishing in August

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Published on Friday, 03 August 2012 23:27

Coming soon in New Socialist Webzine: more articles on different aspects of the ongoing student/popular movement in Quebec (now heading into a difficult new phase of the struggle), a review of David Gilbert's book Love and Struggle by Kim Moody, and more

Uranium mining debate in Nunavut

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Published on Friday, 27 July 2012 01:03

"A conflict over a uranium mine in the far north, four decades in the making, has pitted members of a small Inuit community against their territorial government and a French company." Read Warren Bernauer's article in The Dominion.