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Public Workers and the Public Good

Kathryn Zamarrón, Margaret Palmquist, Loreen Targos, Colin Smalley, and Lindsey Muniak speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by In These Times.

The Trump administration is carrying out a comprehensive assault on the public sector, with federal workers and their labor unions on the frontline. How do these attacks fit into much longer arcs of austerity, privatization, and the defanging of organized labor? This panel brings together public sector workers from several different areas who are organizing not only to fight the decimation of our existing public infrastructure, but to build and advance a vision of a civil society that actually works for the public good, with rank & file workers leading the way.

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