The Oh, Hello and welcome to Behind the News. My name is Doug Henwood. Three guests

and two segments today. In seconds we'll hear from the anthropologist and organizer Kate Doyle

Griffiths about teacher strikes and the crisis of social reproduction. and at the

the bottom the hour the political scientist Thea Rio Franco's and journalist

Daniel Denver review a book that's a morbid symptom with the derangements

of contemporary liberalism.

First, teachers and social reproduction.

The spreading wave of teachers uprising, starting in West Virginia and moving Western to

Oklahoma, Arizona, and other so-called Red States has gotten lots of attention.

But how they fit into a broad crisis of social reproduction, the institutions and practices that

produce and sustain us as human beings outside market relations, has and International Women's Strike and a member of the Red Bloom Collective who did a lot of on-the-ground

reporting in West Virginia during the strike to put it all in context.

Kate Doyle Griffiths.

Certainly lots of people have talked about the Western Virginia Teacher Strike, only a few of them have been there, you've been there.

I'm very curious how much organizing went on in the run up to the strike or how much it was spontaneous.

What's your analysis of the combination of those things?

I think it's always a mistake to imagine these things as being spontaneous.

When it looks spontaneous, that usually means there's some organizing that you just didn't see or didn't have

access to. But what I think was so interesting about the West Virginia strike

was that the kind of organizing that took place before the strike happened. A lot of it really did start in this

mega Facebook group that had almost all of the teachers who ended up going on strike as members

as well as a bunch of other public sector workers.

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