Issue 824

March 2019

Read the articles featured in this month’s edition of Socialist Worker. This issue has in-depth coverage of the struggle at the border, women’s struggles past and present and continuing coverage of education struggles, from teachers’ strikes in Oakland and Chicago to the Black Lives Matter at School week of action. Articles in this issue not yet published on the website include: “When women workers lead the way” and “Confronting the clinic harassers”

Striking hotel workers at the Westin San Diego Gaslamp Quarter

Editorial

When women workers lead the way

International Women’s Day will be more fitting than ever this year on the crest of a teacher strike wave that shows no sign of breaking.

Striking workers take to the streets of Matamoros, Mexico

Justin Akers Chacón

The rising of the maquiladora workers

A huge strike wave in the border city of Matamoros is transforming the labor movement in northern Mexico after decades of defeats.

Students and teachers fight for Black lives at North Division High School in Milwaukee

Interview: Ronnie Almonte

Black Lives Matter and the teacher strike wave

A New York City educator looks at the interconnected growth of union militancy and the Black Lives Matter at School week of action.

Chicago teachers on the march during their nine-day strike

Kirstin Roberts

How do you go back after you shut down a city?

A veteran of the 2012 Chicago teachers’ strike has advice for people in LA and beyond about what comes next after a historic victory.

Danny Katch

Getting ready for Bernie 2020

If the past month is any indication, one of big topics in the next presidential election is going to be the meaning of socialism itself.

Justin Akers Chacón

The empire behind the coup

The Trump administration is pursuing a two-decades-old goal of the U.S. ruling class to defeat a defiant opponent in Latin America.

Jonah ben Avraham

Criticizing Israel while Black (and Muslim)

Ilhan Omar, one of the new progressives in Congress, is being attacked for speaking the truth about the power of Israel’s supporters.

Interview: Rossana Rodriguez

A Chicago socialist against the machine

The socialist candidate for City Council in Chicago’s 33rd Ward says that her campaign is about organizing far beyond Election Day.

Picket line reports

Oakland teachers are fighting for the future

Teachers, students and parents are standing strong on the picket lines in Oakland in a battle for the schools that they all deserve.

Kris Parker

U.S. border violence stalks Tijuana every day

Thousands of asylum seekers wait in Tijuana while the U.S. processes their claims, despite the lack of services and terrible violence.

Joseph Sinclair

The charter bosses lose again at CICS

Educators at four charter schools in Chicago are celebrating a huge victory against a staunchly anti-union administration that caved.

Susan Carroll

Why you should protest Bolsonaro

Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro is scheduled to visit the U.S. in March. Get ready to give him the unwelcome he deserves.

Ryan Roche

Let’s rally to save Temporary Protected Status

Activists are organizing to stop Trump from destroying a vital program for those who can’t return safely to their countries of origin.

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