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
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
Feb 2, 2026
Rural Kent County on the Eastern Shore is Maryland’s smallest county, with only one high school and one extremely run-down middle school. Staff report holes in the floor and bats infesting the boiler. It turns out the state’s much-ballyhooed formula for allocating money for Baltimore and county school districts actually reduces the money Kent County could use to renovate the middle school.
The county commissioner proposed a plan to free up money for this. He would close the county’s detention center—which has already cut a quarter of its staff—and send its dozens of prisoners to another county. This would make it harder for families to visit prisoners. But the state attorney general just ruled this plan is illegal, saying state law requires each county to operate its own detention center. However, state law does not require schools to be in working condition! Four out of five public schools in Maryland need repairs or are rated “functions unreliable.”
We know the priorities of the government: locking people up, not educating people.