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UTLA is on strike in Los Angeles, and like any good socialists we stand in full solidarity with them. Up here in Oakland, OEA teachers are gearing up for a possible strike of their own. Take a listen to the voices on the ground.

On this episode of Too Long for Twitter, we're talking with Tech Worker's Coalition volunteers Amr Gaber and Stephanie Parker! Stand up against your billionaire class boss, because "your company has a contract, has a relationship, is building products that aid and abet human rights abuses. Not just by ICE, but via the US military, via law enforcement agencies, the police!" ... and much more

And a huge shout out to Ariela, of United Educators of San Francisco and California Educators Rising, who's speech at the top of this episode is from a Stop Kavanuagh Rally in SF. Solidarity!

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Kristen and Erica talk about the Russian Revolution, and Erica interviews Todd C. about his book, Eyewitnesses to the Russian Revolution, and the Russian Revolution's relevance today.

Grab Todd's book here: www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1113-ey…an-revolution

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We chat with Eric Blanc, our comrade and frequent contributor to Jacobin Magazine about the Teachers Revolts that have swept through the US, and the working class as a whole. Take a listen! And as always make sure to give us a follow on twitter @toofuckinglong.

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The Free Speech Movement was an outgrowth of the civil rights movement. Legal segregation existed in the South. In the North there was de facto segregation, racism in practice. In the liberal San Francisco Bay Area employers refused to hire Blacks as bank tellers, car salesmen, hotel waiters, supermarket clerks, among other jobs.

In 1964, amidst major fights over civil rights in the Bay Area, the UC Berkeley administration banned all student political organizations from campus. For the first three weeks of its existence the FSM was not called the FSM. Its original name was “The United Front.” It took in all campus organizations that were against the university rules that attempted to restrict student political activity. And The Free Speech Movement demanded and won the right to free speech on campus.

In that four-month-long struggle the radicals who led it won the active support and involvement of the entire campus. For the first time since the 1930s, the Left proved that it could lead and gain the allegiance of thousands. Following the FSM as radicalization spread through the national student movement it became clear that we were at a turning point in the New Left of the 1960’s, where activism against the Vietnam War was the most prominent issue, and that a whole generation was open to radical politics.

The Free Speech Movement was an outgrowth of the civil rights movement. Legal segregation existed in the South. In the North there was de facto segregation, racism in practice. In the liberal San Francisco Bay Area employers refused to hire Blacks as bank tellers, car salesmen, hotel waiters, supermarket clerks, among other jobs.

In 1964, amidst major fights over civil rights in the Bay Area, the UC Berkeley administration banned all student political organizations from campus. For the first three weeks of its existence the FSM was not called the FSM. Its original name was “The United Front.” It took in all campus organizations that were against the university rules that attempted to restrict student political activity. And The Free Speech Movement demanded and won the right to free speech on campus.

In that four-month-long struggle the radicals who led it won the active support and involvement of the entire campus. For the first time since the 1930s, the Left proved that it could lead and gain the allegiance of thousands. Following the FSM as radicalization spread through the national student movement it became clear that we were at a turning point in the New Left of the 1960’s, where activism against the Vietnam War was the most prominent issue, and that a whole generation was open to radical politics.