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From his grave, Albert Shanker, or more accurately, the machine he built, controls the largest teachers union in the world, the United Federation…
Movements fighting for social justice need a massively reinvigorated labor movement, just as much as labor unions need social movements
Powerful elites are willing to sacrifice the lives and futures of millions to feed their own profits. Teachers are fighting back
A victory would serve as a beachhead in creating the social movement we need to not just halt austerity, but to repossess the social gains being stolen from us
The American Federation of Teachersā top-down endorsement of Hillary Clinton is an affront to democratic unionism
The fight against corporate education reform must be less about restoring a system to its former glory than building a just one for the first time
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