United Teachers of Los Angeles won a strong health and safety agreement ahead of returning to classrooms later this month. They won it the old-fashioned way: organizing rank-and-file teachers to demand an agreement that benefits teachers, parents, and students.
Measure ULA, a Los Angeles ballot initiative up for approval by voters, would increase taxes on high-value property deals and use the revenue to address the city’s dire housing crisis. The real estate industry is spending millions to fight the measure.
This week's Los Angeles teachers strike starkly poses the question: will the public or privatizers control public education?
Criminal police officers ran law enforcement in 1990s Los Angeles — and they may have a story to tell.
Originally published in 1983 and recently reissued, My Search for Warren Harding follows a failing academic and self-loathing gay man who attempts to seduce his way into the life of a former president’s mistress. It’s a forgotten classic of biting humor.
SEIU leader David Huerta’s arrest sparked the recent anti-ICE protest wave. Unions like his could tip the scales to win its demand: End the raids now.
Since their contract expired on June 30, hotel workers across the Los Angeles area have launched a wave of rolling strikes against 62 hotels. They are demanding raises to keep up with LA’s skyrocketing cost of living — especially rents.
Nearly 50,000 grocery workers across Southern California have authorized a strike. Should they walk out, it would be the largest work stoppage since the pre-pandemic teachers’ strike wave.
The recent police killing of a homeless man in Los Angeles shows how the capitalist state treats the marginalized.
The Los Angeles teachers strike showed that bottom-up organizing can overcome extraordinary odds. We can do the same throughout the health and education sectors — and at Amazon.
By following the example of Los Angeles teachers in their recent victorious strike, teachers around the country can roll back free-market education reform.
After a hard-fought, five-year organizing campaign, the largely immigrant workforce at Genwa, a Korean BBQ chain in Los Angeles, has won a first contract — a first-of-its-kind agreement in an almost entirely nonunion sector.
From price gouging to risky developing to insurance dysfunction, the dynamics of private housing markets are making the Los Angeles fire disaster considerably worse. We don’t need to prioritize real estate profits over people’s housing needs.
The Los Angeles strike wasn’t just a teachers’ victory. It was also a tale of two competing antiracist visions — one upheld by privatizing billionaires and another pushed by working people.
Los Angeles County has proposed that Lyft take over its public bike share program. LA bike share workers fear Lyft will gut their program and undermine their union — so they’ve joined with public transit advocates to fight privatization.
As millions of Americans struggle with the high cost of living, the Democratic leadership seems out of touch. It could cost them in the upcoming midterms.
The claim that strikes are reflections of privilege is totally disconnected from the history of women’s labor organizing in the US.
The teachers strike wave has reached Los Angeles: teachers there recently voted overwhelmingly to strike. They are fighting against school privatization, wage and benefit cuts, and the nationwide project to dismantle public education.
Kwanzaa is now far bigger than its founder. But I can't forget that Ron Karenga helped murder Black Panther militants and his other heinous crimes.
Don’t let the gloom of Tuesday’s national elections obscure the remarkable results in lower-level races across the country. Dozens of socialists were elected to legislatures, while minimum-wage hikes, rent controls, and taxes on the rich to fund schools all won voter backing, even in very red places.