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b'Guest: Jackie Goldberg, Eric Blanc\\nJackie Goldberg, former teacher, member of the School Board, City Council and State Assembly is now running in the March 5th special election to the LAUSD School Board. If elected, Jackie will be an experienced and effective progressive voice for public education, opposing the charter allies elected with money from the \'\'\'bankrollers [who] have stacked the deck against district public schools.\'\'\' We talk to Jackie about the strike, the fight to save public education, and how the forces are aligned from Los Angeles to Sacramento to Washington.

Eric Blanc, author of the just published "Red State Revolt: The Teachers Strike Wave and Working Class Politics." has been covering the strike for Jacobin magazine. He looks at the larger issues in the UTLA strike, the billionaires arrayed against the LA schools, the dilemma this strike poses for establishment Democrats, and why this fightback is historic. Eric maintains that at its core, the strike \'\'\'is a fight against a hostile takeover of public schools by the superrich.\'\'\''