Los Angeles
[VIDEO] Inglewood: Tenants Battle the Mayor and Developers for Rent Control
"Always Up to No Good" The Mayor, Developers and landlords are raising rents in Inglewood to move poor, elderly Black and Latino people out of Inglewood. However, a group of residents, activists, socialists and journalists are fighting for rent control and affordable housing.
Luigi Morris
April 27, 2019LA Teachers Strike Ends with New Contract and Mixed Feelings
The LA teacher strike won important gains, with massive protests in the rain and pickets at the majority of schools. However, some teachers have mixed feeling about the process of approving the contract, as well as about the contract itself.
Tatiana Cozzarelli
January 23, 2019Interview with a 30 Year UTLA Militant Teacher and Socialist
On the first day of the LA teachers strike, Left Voice spoke with Jeff Pott, a retired 30-year UTLA activist, 1989 striker, and socialist. The interview was conducted on the picket line at Marshall High School where Jeff worked for many years.
Thaddeus Greene
January 18, 2019Los Angeles Teachers Strike for Public Education
The LA teachers’ strike in defense of public education makes the rich and the government of California tremble.
Thaddeus Greene
January 16, 2019Worker to Worker Why We Must All Support the Los Angeles Teacher’s Strike!
The teachers' strike in Los Angeles requires the broadest solidarity of the working class to succeed. Below, a letter from a graduate of LAUSD in support.
Julia Wallace
January 9, 2019Solidarity with Los Angeles Teachers
The Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1277 (LA) expressed their support if and when UTLA strikes.
Left Voice
December 28, 2018Teachers’ Strike Wave: Next Stop, Los Angeles
After this year’s “Teachers Spring,” educators in Los Angeles are planning to spread the rebellion of education workers to the West Coast.
Thaddeus Greene
December 25, 2018[VIDEO] Los Ángeles: Rally Against Trump
Trump Blasted in Beverly Hills! Hundreds descend on the bourgeois nest to denounce Trump and call for worker and oppressed people solidarity and organization.
Left Voice
March 20, 2018Left Voice joins the Afro-Socialist Coalition at Taste of Soul LA
This year, among the festivities as well as corporate sponsors, the Afro Socialist Coalition, made up of DSA-LA, Left Voice, The Undercommons and the Los Angeles Black Workers Center, will table at the event bringing socialist politics to A Taste of Soul.
Julia Wallace
October 18, 2017Revenge of the Corn: Los Angeles Defends Its Elotero Workers!
Hundreds attend rally in Los Angeles in solidarity with elotero Benjamin Ramirez.
Julia Wallace
July 28, 2017