Episode Details

Election season is coming up, so you know what that means... we're re-launching our series "Working-Class Politics"! In this ongoing series, we talk to working-class people running for elected office at all levels—in their unions, in local, state, and national government, etc.—as well as candidates fighting with and for the working class. In the latest installment, we talk to Paul Prescod (aka "Labor Paul"), a socialist, high school teacher, and member of the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers. Listeners may know Prescod as the cohost of The Jacobin Show, but he is now running for Pennsylvania State Senate in its 8th district, pledging to make organizing around working-class issues and legislating universal programs his top priorities. We talk to Prescod about the importance of building working-class coalitions, earning the trust of organized labor, and what it will take to serve the needs of working people in his district.

Kellogg's livestream fundraiser links/info below...

• Working People YouTube channel
• Kellogg's Strike Fund Livestream Fundraiser

Additional links/info below...

• Paul's campaign website, Facebook page, and Twitter page
• Paul's Jacobin author page
• Peter Lucas, Jacobin, "Teacher and Pennsylvania State Senate Candidate Paul Prescod: "The Rich Need to Start Paying""

Permanent links below...

• Working People Patreon page<