Chicago Teachers Confront the Crisis
Teachers have led the way in the struggle for economic and racial justice in Chicago. The current crisis demands that we prepare for the worst while taking crucial steps to fight for a just future. Read More ...
The Heartless Alliance
Immigrant kids don’t need gentler jails. They need us to end detention as a response to migration. Read More …
A Light at the End of the World
COVID-19 inaugurates a new era. The future will be shuttered by repression or it will be built upon solidarity. Read More …
The Socialist Case Against the Police
Police don’t solve, stop or prevent crime because they were never designed to. Cops are the tools of the bosses, from the day they were invented to today. Read More …
Mike Pence’s Disastrous Record on Public Health Crises
An Indiana health care worker explains why Pence’s bigotry makes him uniquely unqualified to manage a nationwide public health threat. Read More …
What’s at Stake at Unist’ot’en
Wet’suwet’en land is under constant invasion by the colonial Canadian government. The struggle for Indigenous sovereignty is currently reaching a height unseen in years. Read More …
George Cardenas is Full of Hot Air
Alderman George Cardenas introduced a resolution declaring a climate emergency in Chicago. He helped create the emergency in his own ward. Read More …
Who Runs Chicago?
Once controlled by manufacturers, City Hall is now dominated by finance and real estate capital. The new bosses are building a racist business climate at the expense of working Chicagoans.
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What is Owed
Slavery was torture. Reparations for police torture in Chicago are a key part of building the larger reparations movement. Read More …
Life After Death
In 2014, Chicago police murdered Ronnieman. In the first installment of a multi-part series, his mother Dorothy Holmes tells her story of growing up in Chicago and her courageous fight for justice for her son. Read More …