How Labor Can Fight Trump’s Authoritarianism
Former United Teachers Los Angeles president Alex Caputo-Pearl lays out a “block and build” strategy for labor to defeat the rising right-wing attacks on workers and democracy in the coming Donald Trump administration.

United Teachers Los Angeles members marched alongside students, parents, and allies protesting the first inauguration of Donald Trump in January 2017. (Courtesy of UTLA)
On January 19, 2017, tens of thousands of UTLA members, students, parents, and allies at hundreds of schools across the region protested the inauguration of Donald Trump. They carried signs in the shape of shields that would become iconic across Los Angeles — among them “Shield Against Racism and Sexism,” “Shield Against Homophobia and Transphobia,” […]