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She claimed “the courts, Congress and the Court of Public Opinion” were the battleground against Trump, and rejected suggestions that a political strike was needed to stop Trump.
The announcement marks a further escalation in the nationwide campaign of the Republican Party and the Trump administration to dismantle public education, criminalize teachers, and mobilize a political army around authoritarianism.
Protests have been held throughout the state following the abduction of Dr. Ian Roberts by ICE agents on Friday.
A separate state bill, passed in 2023, allows teachers to carry firearms in school as the “solution” to mass shootings.
The vote’s outcome underlines the urgent necessity of flight attendants at Air Canada and across North America, as well as workers in every economic sector, establishing their organizational and political independence from the trade union bureaucracy.
The Philadelphia Workers Rank-and-File Strike Committee calls for teachers and all city workers to build independent rank-and-file power to defeat austerity, union betrayal, and attacks on living standards.
The contract rejection must become the launching pad for a renewed fight based on an entirely new strategy—one that breaks the stranglehold of the CUPW bureaucracy and mobilizes the immense social power of the entire working class.
The Philadelphia municipal strike was not the end but the opening act in a rapid series of confrontations in Philadelphia and beyond.
We are building a network of rank-and-file educators, students, parents, and workers to stop the spread of COVID-19 and save lives.
