Massachusetts union’s anti-U.S. star

Massachusetts’s powerful teachers’ union has elevated a longtime left-wing activist to its top ranks — and the new vice president is already under fire for blasting America as a “fascist oligarchy,” rejecting borders as a “construct of colonizers,” and pushing anti-Israel resolutions. Deb Gesualdo’s election by the Massachusetts Teachers Association, an NEA affiliate, puts a hard-left voice in the leadership of a union that shapes schools, politics and public debate, with her and incoming president Matt Bach tied to the progressive caucus Educators for a Democratic Union. She has openly used social media to call for “working people rising up,” while her union wins now carry a fresh whiff of ideological combat.