Alana Goodman writes for the Washington Free Beacon about the disturbing views of a teachers union leader in one northeastern state.
The newly elected vice president of Massachusetts’s top teachers’ union is a longtime left-wing activist who has denounced the United States as a “fascist oligarchy,” objected to national borders as a “construct of colonizers,” and pushed resolutions condemning Israel as “genocidal.”
The Massachusetts Teachers Association (MTA)—an affiliate of the National Education Association (NEA), the largest labor union in the United States—earlier this month elected Deb Gesualdo as its vice president. The new leadership team will take over from outgoing MTA president Max Page in July.
Gesualdo, along with the MTA’s newly elected president, Matt Bach, is a member of Educators for a Democratic Union, the MTA’s progressive caucus, which works to “build a … social justice movement in our union and communities” and “dismantle structures of oppression within our union as well as other institutions.” It has received funding from the Social Justice & Solidarity Fund, a group affiliated with the Democratic Socialists of America, of which Gesualdo is a member. She has been open about her anti-American and anti-Israel views both on social media and within the MTA.
In a post on the left-wing social media site Bluesky, Gesualdo called for anti-government uprisings against the “fascist” United States, writing that it was “beyond me that there’s still people who think we can legislate our way out of the fascist oligarchy that is the United States.” The “antidote,” she added, was “working people rising up.”
Gesualdo uses children’s cartoons to promote far-left and socialist ideology on social media. On TikTok, she posted a picture of Snoopy with a caption and voice-over denouncing national borders as a “construct of colonizers” that are “meant to control and exploit workers.” In another comment on Bluesky, she published an image of Hello Kitty alongside the message “No war but class war.”
