With election season coming up, we’re re-launching our Working People series "Working-Class Politics," where 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 of this ongoing series, 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.

Read the transcript of this podcast: https://therealnews.com/a-socialist-high-school-teacher-looks-to-shake-up-pa-state-senate-race

Additional links/info below...
Paul's campaign website, Facebook page, and Twitter page:
https://www.paulprescod.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Paul-Prescod-for-PA-Senate-District-8-100204839128381
https://twitter.com/paul_prescod
Paul's Jacobin author page: https://www.jacobinmag.com/author/paul-prescod
Peter Lucas, Jacobin, "Teacher and Pennsylvania State Senate Candidate Paul Prescod: “The Rich Need to Start Paying”": https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/12/paul-prescod-state-senate-campaign-pennsylvania-dsa
Paul Prescod, The Real News Network, “The industrial working class is not dead”: https://therealnews.com/the-industrial-working-class-is-not-dead

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Jules Taylor, "Working People Theme Song"

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A socialist high-school teacher looks to shake up PA State Senate race