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Building unity between the union and the community. "We as a union have fought for privileges for ourselves, but we know that beyond our personal needs, we also have to lift up families. If we don't rise together, we're going to go back to the same situation we faced before." Hear PSL leaders speak on the fight for public education in the new era of class struggle from a recent livestream.

The power of strikes and the continuing class struggle. "We were able to undo the damage of a decade of austerity, now we are facing COVID-related budget cuts that threaten to erase our gains from the strike. But what cannot be erased is the fundamental shift in consciousness that came about from our strike." Hear PSL leaders speak on the fight for public education in the new era of class struggle...

Reds in Ed: a new initiative from the Party for Socialism and Liberation. "Our communities are on the front line and we, as teachers, stand atthe intersection of so many communities. We have to be tribunes of the people and commit to a struggle for the common good." Hear PSL leaders speak on the fight for public education in the new era of class struggle from a recent livestream.

Budget cuts and the covid-19 crisis, exacerbating inequities in NYC and beyond. The intequities that students and their families face are already noteworthy. Cutting the budget will push NYC publish schools into an even deeper crisis which we may not be able to bounce back from. Hear PSL leaders speak on the fight for public education in the new era of class struggle from a recent livestream.

"We know our role in society. We know our families trust us. We know people stand for public education. And we're going to use every opportunity right now to build a fight back for public education. Because when we come together, as workers, as families, as students, we can win!" Hear PSL leaders from a recent livestream on the fight for public education in the new era of class struggle.

The capitalist mode of production is slowing the development of vaccines including for COVID-19. When the polio vaccine was developed in the 1950s, inventor Jonas Salk famously compared the absurdity of patenting the polio vaccine to “patenting the sun.” If a vaccine is treated as a commodity instead of as a public good, the price paid is in human lives lost. A global pandemic must be matched by a...

The Trump administration is attacking Trans health access during this pandemic! The latest attack takes the form of an expected rewrite of the Affordable Care Act, which protects trans people from discrimination in healthcare. The rule’s rewrite has been a long time in the making. In May 2019, HHS proposed allowing healthcare workers permission to deny care to LGBTQ patients for "religious" or "mo...

Hear PSL leaders speak on how the Chinese community is organizing to fight back against anti-China racism.

Hear PSL leaders speak on how the fight back has begun, and the difference between our protests and the reactionary right-wing protests.

A real socialist movement can't be based on a politician. In order to build a socialist movement, the working class needs its own party. Hear PSL leaders speak on building a socialist, working-class party in the U.S.

What would a socialist government's response be to a crisis like the one brought on by the coronavirus? Hear PSL leaders speak on building a socialist working-class party in the U.S. from a recent livestream.

To confront this centralized, massive power structure, we have to build a counterforce of the organized people from all sections of the working class and exploited peoples. Hear PSL leaders from a recent livestream on building a socialist working-class party in the U.S.

The U.S. ruling class has perpetuated the myth that it is the greatest country. Suddenly, that myth is now being wiped out in the blink of an eye. Hear PSL leaders speak on building a socialist working-class party in the U.S. from a recent livestream.

In the early morning of Sunday, May 3, the National Bolivarian Armed Forces of Venezuela along with the Special Actions Forces of the Venezuelan National Police repelled an armed invasion by speedboats off the coast of La Guaira, less than an hour from the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, recalling past U.S.-backed paramilitary invasions in Latin American states such as the Bay of Pigs in Cuba and the...

As these workers continue to struggle, more victories will follow. And hopefully, what also follows is more urgency for working people to take control of society and seize power. Hear PSL Central Committee Member Andrew Nance speak on fighting for worker power.

As organizers and revolutionaries, we're not trying to be spectators of a political process. We have to bring to bear the full power of the working class, so that we can advance the struggle. Hear PSL Central Committee member Ben Becker speak on FIGHTING BACK as the working class.

Why did the U.S. government spend all of its time inciting hatred against China, instead of preparing for the crisis? Our fight back must hold the leaders of this country responsible for this growing crisis. Hear PSL Central Committee member Sheila Xiao speak on the need to fight racism and scapegoating.

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to intensify, poor and oppressed communities will be the hardest hit. This can be seen in Albany, a city of approximately 70,000 people in Southwest Georgia. As of April 17, there have been at least 2,030 confirmed cases, making Albany a city with one of the highest number of coronavirus cases per capita in the world. Additionally, the 78 deaths in Dougherty Coun...

Walkouts, sickouts, sit-ins, picket lines and other forms of protest are sweeping the country from New York to Alabama to California. Essential workers are taking the initiative to demand the on-the-job protective equipment and support necessary to protect themselves against the COVID-19 virus and survive. The strike wave is an angry response to a corporate establishment that has shown no social o...

At time of publication, only ten countries in the world have surpassed Michigan in their total number of COVID-19 deaths. Michigan, a state with a population of less than 10 million people, has exceeded Canada’s number of cases confirmed today. Wayne County, which houses Detroit, has surpassed the entire state of California in total number of deaths, and has nearly eclipsed Brazil as well. At Sina...

Across the country support for incarcerated people has become a rallying cry for all progressive people and organizations. Simultaneously, spontaneous prison actions of resistance have become increasingly regular in the face of the Coronavirus pandemic. Inmates at the Lansing Correctional Facility in Kansas City started a tier wide uprising forcing guards to retreat from the section of the prison,...

While the COVID-19 crisis continues to escalate across the United States, more and more workers are being backed into life or death situations. The crisis is not simply a result of the virus itself but the lack of material governmental response. Many workers, impacted by cuts in hours, job losses or mass school closings are now struck by deep financial precarity, unsure of where next month’s rent...

Without pressure from the working class, capitalists and the politicians who serve them will concede nothing. This pandemic has exposed how broken the system is, and how deadly the consequences are. We stand in solidarity with the striking workers and the unemployed in these and future crucial struggles. The 3.3 million people who filed for unemployment benefits as the Coronavirus shutdown began h...

This is a segment from our livestream featuring leaders from the Party for Socialism and Liberation on the coronavirus, capitalism and the class struggle.

Are relief measures socialist? This is a segment from our livestream featuring leaders from the Party for Socialism and Liberation on the coronavirus, capitalism and the class struggle.