Chicago Teachers On the Street, photo credit Debra Lane
On Monday Chicago teachers went on strike, notably under the influence of two US Trotskyist groups: the International Socialist Organization and Solidarity. This is an inspiring large-scale working-class action, and a modern test of many different things: the traditional Trotskyist approach of gaining the formal leadership of big unions, the viability of public sector strikes in the current climate, the question of whether workers will break the legal limits imposed by Taft-Hartley and other US Labor Law, as well as the relationship between the workers
withdrawing their labor and the people they serve.
Get it Chicago educators and supporters!
Check out Solida
rity’s live blog coverage of the strike.
If anyone gets new reportbacks / analysis, drop em in comments we’d love to see em.
