THE CHICAGO TEACHERS UNION (CTU)—American Federation of Teachers (AFT) Local 1—conducted an unprecedented, bold, and possibly illegal one-day strike on Friday, April 1, 2016. The strike was initially called to protest threatened cuts in pay during contract negotiations and to send a message: “Continue like this and we will strike!” The CTU leaders changed that focus in the week preceding the strike; by strike day, it became a strike for increased state funding for education and all social services.
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Diskussion mit Andrew Feenberg, Richard Westerman, Chris Cutrone & Nicholas Brown. Die hier abgedruckte, ins Deutsche übersetzte Podiumsdiskussion fand im April 2011 auf der dritten internationalen Convention der Platypus Affiliated Society in Chicago statt. Ein Transkript der Diskussion wurde zuerst in der Platypus Review #37 veröffentlicht.
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John Batchell responds to a review of Doug Henwood’s new book “My Turn: Hillary targets the presidency" by Gregor Baszak, published in Platypus Review Issue 83.
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On July 13, 2015, Jerzy Sobotta spoke with Stefan Bollinger, member of the Historical Commission of Die LINKE (the Left Party) and former political scientist and historian at Humboldt University, Berlin. Their discussion concerned the end of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and the transformation of its formerly governing party, the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands, or SED) into a new political entity, Die LINKE.
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Luis J. Rodriguez respnds to the Nelson Peery interview, published in Platypus Review Issue 81.
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