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 co-host 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.
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”“
- Paul Prescod, The Real News Network, “The industrial working class is not dead”
Featured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive at freemusicarchive.org):
Jules Taylor, “Working People Theme Song”
Transcript
The transcript of this interview will be made available as soon as possible.
This post was originally published on The Real News Network.
