The Spark

the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist

“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx

DPS:
Poison Water

Sep 17, 2018

The Detroit Public Schools started the school year by turning off ALL the water in ALL their schools. They’d been finding elevated lead and copper in the pipes all summer, so they decided that bringing in bottled water was safer.

The state was sure to get their money when the district was reorganized a couple years ago–and left the district with nothing to upgrade its pipes with!