5LL #29 - LA Teachers' Strike, Lee Carter, Bureaucracy, The Rich, The Internet

'This Is Much Bigger Than Us, Than Our Union, Even Than Our City'
Sarah Jaffe, The Nation
How LA’s teachers joined forces with the community and won a landmark labor contract.
How One Socialist Lawmaker Is Trying to Change His State's Pro-Business Policies
Farah Stockman, The New York Times
Mr. Carter, who won an unexpected victory in 2017 against a Republican who served as majority whip, has already served a year in office. And his tenure gives a glimpse of what happens when a dues-paying member of the Democratic Socialists of America is elected to office.
The Left Critique of Bureaucracy
Nathan Robinson, Current Affairs
We need a strong public sector but it has to actually be run well…
The World Would Be a Better Place Without the Rich
Sam Pizzigati, Jacobin
They coarsen our culture, erode our economic future, and diminish our democracy. The ultra-rich have no redeeming social value.
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Kate Wagner, The Baffler
The internet is perhaps the most potent and active delivery system in history for the thesis “capitalism will obliterate everything you know and love”—online it happens in real time.
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