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The political ambitions of the movement behind Bernie Sanders have
never been limited to winning the White House. Since Bernie first
entered the presidential primaries in 2016, his supporters have
worked to organize a revolution intended to encourage the active
participation of millions of ordinary people in political life. In
Bigger than Bernie, activist writers Meagan Day and Micah Uetricht
give us an intimate map of this movement to remake American
politics top to bottom, profiling the grassroots organizers who are
building something bigger, and more ambitious, than the career of
any one candidate. As participants themselves, Day and Uetricht
provide a serious analysis of the prospects for long-term change,
offering a strategy for making "political revolution" more than
just a campaign slogan. They provide a road map for how to entrench
democratic socialism in the halls of power and in our own lives.
This new edition offers unmatched insights into the people behind
the most unique campaign in modern American history and explores
how the political revolution has been re-tooled for a time of
economic crisis and pandemic.
The political ambitions of the movement behind Bernie Sanders have
never been limited to winning the White House. Since Bernie first
entered the presidential primaries in 2016, his supporters have
worked to organize a revolution intended to encourage the active
participation of millions of ordinary people in political life.
That revolution is already underway, as evidenced by the massive
growth of the Democratic Socialists of America, the teachers Bernie
motivated to lead strikes across red and blue states, and the
rising new generation of radicals in Congress-led by AOC and Ilhan
Omar-inspired by his example. In Bigger than Bernie, activist
writers Meagan Day and Micah Uetricht give us an intimate map of
this emerging movement to remake American politics top to bottom,
profiling the grassroots organizers who are building something
bigger, and more ambitious, than the career of any one candidate.
As participants themselves, Day and Uetricht provide a serious
analysis of the prospects for long-term change, offering a strategy
for making "political revolution" more than just a campaign slogan.
They provide a road map for how to entrench democratic socialism in
the halls of power and in our own lives. Bigger than Bernie offers
unmatched insights into the people behind the most unique campaign
in modern American history and a clear-eyed sense of how the
movement can sustain itself for the long haul.
The Chicago Teachers Union strike was the most important domestic
labor struggle so far this century-and perhaps for the last forty
years-and the strongest challenge to the conservative agenda for
restructuring education, which advocates for more charter schools
and tying teacher salaries to standardized testing, among other
changes. The teachers took on the bipartisan, free market school
reform agenda that is currently exacerbating inequality in
education and waging war on teachers' livelihoods. In the age of
austerity, when the public sector is under attack, Chicago teachers
fought back-and won. The strike was years in the making. Chicago
teachers spent a long time building a grassroots movement to
educate and organize the entire union membership. They stood up
against hostile mayors, billionaire-backed reformers out to destroy
unions, and even their own intransigent union leadership, to take
militant action. The Chicago protest has become a model for how
reforms to the school system can be led by teachers and
communities. It offers inspiration for workers looking to create
democratic, fighting unions. Strike for America is the story of
this movement and how it triumphed in the defining struggle for
workers today.
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