What's Behind the Attack on Public Schools?
Adolph Reed Jr. talks with Chicago Teachers Union president Jesse Sharkey and Prof. Daniel Moak about what's behind renewed criticism of our public schools. Are our schools failing our students and communities? Or are these attacks fueled by efforts to privatize schools for private profit? And ho...
When We Fight: The Teachers Strike Wave in Retrospect
Yael Bridge, Daniel Denvir, and Jesse Sharkey speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2022. Find out more about the "When We Fight" documentary here: https://www.whenwefightmovie.com.
Join Daniel Denvir, Yael Bridge, and Jesse Sharkey for a screening of When We Fight, a short documentary abo...
On The Line: A Conversation on Class, Solidarity, and Building a Union
Join us for a conversation on rebuilding the labor movement with Daisy Pitkin & former CTU president Jesse Sharkey
Daisy Pitkin’s On The Line recounts the ups and downs of a bold five-year campaign to organize industrial laundry factories in the notoriously anti-union state of Arizona. Pitkin of...
Lessons from the Chicago Teachers Union: Looking Ahead at Our Next Challenge
Jesse Sharkey speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2023.
The movements in Chicago were key to electing a new mayor–Brandon Johnson, and will be key to building grassroots power going forward. Former CTU President Jesse Sharkey will discuss lessons from the CTU’s experience of strikes an...
Educators and the Movement: the Fight for the Schools Our Children Deserve featuring Jesse Sharkey
Join us as former President of the Chicago Teachers Union, Jesse Sharkey, visits Moraine Valley. Mr. Sharkey will share his experience as a leader in the largest local unions in the state of Illinois and one of the largest in the country. He will discuss how CTU created a movement that put teache...
Educators and the Movement: the Fight for the Schools Our Children Deserve featuring Jesse Sharkey
Join us as former President of the Chicago Teachers Union, Jesse Sharkey, visits Moraine Valley. Mr. Sharkey will share his experience as a leader in the largest local unions in the state of Illinois and one of the largest in the country. He will discuss how CTU created a movement that put teache...
Organizing for the Long Haul
An intergenerational panel of troublemakers at the Chicago Labor Notes 2024
conference - Jesse Sharkey, Chicago Teachers Union; Danice Cabanela,
SAG-AFTRA; Cyn Huang, UAW; Jamie Partridge, DSA and NALC; and an unnamed
Starbucks worker - discuss how we sustain ourselves to s...
I Didn't Come Here to Lie: The Life and Legacy of Karen Lewis
Elizabeth Todd-Breland and Jesse Sharkey speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025.
In 2012, Karen Lewis led the Chicago Teachers Union to a historic strike, challenging the city’s powerful mayor and paving the way for an unprecedented wave of teacher strikes in the decade that followed. J...
The Struggle for Collective Liberation: Class, Oppression, and the Politics of Resistance
Jesse Sharkey, Eric Maroney, and Donna Murch speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Spectre Journal.
In order to build an effective resistance to Trump’s intensified attacks, we must combine the fight against oppression—including against the right's racist...
