The Chicago Union That Teaches Less And Agitates More.
Parents across Chicago, and increasingly across the country, are asking a question the education establishment desperately wants to avoid: how does a teachers’ union whose leadership is closely affiliated with openly communist groups get to embed itself inside a school system that is already failing our children, while simultaneously funding and promoting movements that openly seek to subvert the United States government?
This is not a fringe concern. It is a mainstream outrage dressed up as “social justice,” laundered through classrooms, and protected by political intimidation.
Chicago Public Schools continue to post dismal outcomes: collapsing literacy rates, chronic absenteeism, unsafe classrooms, and graduates unprepared for work or college. Yet the Chicago Teachers Union rarely leads with academic recovery. Instead, it leads marches, hosts radical conferences, and amplifies revolutionary rhetoric that has nothing to do with reading, math, or science.
From Labor Union To Communist Front Group and Ideological Machine
Let’s be clear: the CTU is not formally labeled a communist organization. But labels matter far less than behavior. Over the past decade, the union’s leadership has been dominated by activists tied to socialist, Marxist, and explicitly communist organizations. This shift did not happen accidentally.
The CORE caucus that took over union leadership in 2010 openly embraces “social movement unionism,” a model that subordinates classroom outcomes to political activism. Under this framework, schools are no longer institutions for educating children. They are staging grounds for ideological struggle.
That transformation has consequences. When union leadership prioritizes ideology over instruction, students pay the price—and parents are told to sit down and be quiet.
Hosting Revolution While Schools Collapse
The outrage reached a new level when the CTU hosted the National Alliance Against Racist & Political Repression conference in November 2025. Speakers at the event denied Israel’s right to exist, praised Hamas and armed resistance, and referred to the United States as the “belly of the beast.”
Even more alarming were statements from CTU leadership itself. An executive board member openly declared that the union aims to “bring the system down” and that when they talk about “fighting back,” they are not speaking metaphorically.
Read that again. This was not a college protest or a fringe rally. This was hosted by an organization embedded directly into a taxpayer-funded school system.
The FRSO Connection No One Wants To Talk About
The National Alliance Against Racist & Political Repression shares leadership with individuals who are also senior figures in the Freedom Road Socialist Organization. FRSO openly states its goal: building toward a new Communist Party based on Marxism-Leninism.
This is not paranoia. It is published ideology.
When a teachers’ union aligns itself with groups whose stated mission is revolutionary overthrow, the question is no longer about free speech. It is about institutional capture. Taxpayer dollars, union dues, and public trust are being funneled into movements that openly reject the legitimacy of the American system itself.
Who Is Protecting The Children?
The most grotesque part of this story is who gets ignored: students trapped in failing schools. While classrooms deteriorate, the union flexes political muscle to shut down streets, paralyze cities, and bully officials into submission.
Any organization that claims to speak for children while aligning with extremists who glorify violence and revolution has forfeited moral authority. A teacher’s union exists to educate, not indoctrinate. To protect students, not exploit them as political shields.
Bottom Line
A school system cannot survive when its most powerful internal actor is more committed to ideological warfare than educational success. Parents, taxpayers, and policymakers must stop pretending this is normal. Allowing radical political movements to operate under the banner of public education is not tolerance; it is negligence. It is slow-moving suicide.
We are so screwed.
— Steve
