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This Labor Day one question dominates above all others: How will the transformation of the United States into a military-police dictatorship be stopped?
Workers must organize actions from below to enforce the necessary safety measures to make sure such deaths never happen again.
It must be said plainly: the strike is in danger as long as the AFSCME bureaucrats retain control. Victory can be achieved, but only if workers take control over the strike themselves.
Adams’ death is part of a continuing pattern of preventable workplace tragedies in which workers’ lives are sacrificed for the sake of profit.
An inquiry independent of Stellantis, the United Auto Workers (UAW) apparatus and state authorities is essential to uncover the truth, expose systemic safety violations and prevent future deaths.
It is the capitalist system that produces tragedies like the death of Ronald Adams Sr., a system that operates in the interests of the ruling class, which derives value and profit from the labor of workers.
Shamenia Stewart-Adams delivered powerful remarks to the public hearing on the death of her husband at the Dundee Engine Complex.
The following resolution was unanimously supported by workers and young people at the public hearing in Detroit on Sunday, July 27.
The vote’s outcome underlines the urgent necessity of flight attendants at Air Canada and across North America, as well as workers in every economic sector, establishing their organizational and political independence from the trade union bureaucracy.
The Philadelphia Workers Rank-and-File Strike Committee calls for teachers and all city workers to build independent rank-and-file power to defeat austerity, union betrayal, and attacks on living standards.
The contract rejection must become the launching pad for a renewed fight based on an entirely new strategy—one that breaks the stranglehold of the CUPW bureaucracy and mobilizes the immense social power of the entire working class.
The Philadelphia municipal strike was not the end but the opening act in a rapid series of confrontations in Philadelphia and beyond.
The US auto company, First Brands, involved in the sale of parts and highly dependent on debt, is facing bankruptcy, with its creditors involved to the tune of billions of dollars.
John, who provided testimony to the public hearing on the death of fellow skilled tradesman Ronald Adams Sr., spoke recently with the World Socialist Web Site about the hearing and about how to build a working class movement against dictatorship.
Over the past few days, there have been multiple suspensions and terminations of workers who refused to permit searches, including the two-week suspension of a worker with 25 to 30 years with no previous disciplinary issues.
Reporting teams from the World Socialist Web Site distributed copies of the Socialist Equality Party’s statement, “Trump’s fascist conspiracy and how to fight it: A socialist strategy,” which was received with great interest.
Eric Smith’s death, and Shannon Barnes’s before him, show the human price of the policy’s unbridled restructuring and cost-cutting.
Reporting teams from the World Socialist Web Site distributed copies of the Socialist Equality Party’s statement, “Trump’s fascist conspiracy and how to fight it: A socialist strategy,” which was received with great interest.
The cargo ship Mississippi lost 75 cargo containers when preparing to unload at the Port of Long Beach, highlighting dangerous working conditions and hazards to the local workforce.
In contrast to the Democrats and Republicans, who say workers must accept massive cuts, we insist that workers have the inalienable social right to transportation, as well as education, healthcare and other public services needed to live decently in a modern society.
Tens of thousands of healthcare workers and teachers have held nationwide strikes, but the development of a real fight against austerity requires a socialist perspective and a rebellion against the union bureaucracy.
Workers in California, Hawaii, Oregon and Washington state voted overwhelmingly in favor of authorizing a strike last week, in anticipation of contract expiration on September 30.
Doctors were not just rejecting the rotten deal, but its tacit endorsement by the Australian Salaried Medical Officers Federation.
The strike by 700 nurses and case workers in Grand Blanc, Michigan is entering its third week and the fate of the struggle is very much in danger as Teamsters union officials are doing nothing to stop Henry Ford Health from bringing in scabs and other hospital employees from crossing the picket lines every day.
A WSU meeting demonstrated how far union officials are going to trap university workers in sham “consultation” processes and oppose any unified fight against the estimated 4,000 job losses throughout Australia’s 39 public universities.
Bill Shorten’s speech made more explicit the content of the Albanese government’s assault on tertiary education, which is currently driving the destruction of nearly 4,000 jobs throughout the country’s 39 public universities.
Tens of thousands of healthcare workers and teachers have held nationwide strikes, but the development of a real fight against austerity requires a socialist perspective and a rebellion against the union bureaucracy.
Educators in Oakland and Sacramento in California have already been forced into tentative agreements paving the way for deep cuts, while teachers in San Francisco and Contra Costa are being made to wait weeks until potential strikes next month.
Reporting teams from the World Socialist Web Site distributed copies of the Socialist Equality Party’s statement, “Trump’s fascist conspiracy and how to fight it: A socialist strategy,” which was received with great interest.
Smalls was released by the Israeli government on Thursday after a five day hunger strike against his mistreatment.
Despite filing numerous complaints with HR and government agencies including the EEOC, Susan faced continued harassment and was denied medical accommodations.
The WSWS is urging workers to take matters into their own hands and organize a rank-and-file committee to investigate this and other needless incidents at JFK8 and fight for workers’ control over safety.
The scientists warn: “Plastics are a grave, growing, and under-recognised danger to human and planetary health.”
“Closing the CSB will mean more accidents at chemical plants, more explosions and more deaths.”
The 250 striking workers were given just 48-hours notice to vote on a lengthy seven-year contract that failed to meet their key demands.
On strike for more than three months, Marathon workers called for joint action to stop the cutoff of their insurance on December 13.
Mining giants BHP Mitsubishi Alliance and Anglo American are threatening the livelihoods and futures of coking coal mine workers in Queensland’s Bowen Basin and beyond.
The Mining and Energy Union has endorsed the reopening drive by owner Anglo American, which is anxious to restart operations to facilitate its pending sale of the mine.
“We prefer to speak out rather than continue walking in the footsteps of our fallen comrades. Our lives are worth more than copper,” reads an open letter from subcontract miners.
The operation is an extension of Operation Vala Umgodi that began with the Stilfontein massacre in January, where 90 miners died after police surrounded an abandoned mine, cutting off food supplies and forcing them to the surface.
The Trump administration’s move to strip Harvard University of its ability to enroll international students is a fascistic assault on democratic rights and an attempt to place the entire university system under direct political control by a gangster regime in Washington.
Graduate workers are exploited by a system that pays them in stipends and earn as little as $15,000 a year, in a city that regularly ranks as one of the poorest in the country.
The lawsuit, launched by the ACLU in California, alleges that the summary banishment by the University of California Regents was illegal.
Suspensions, banishments, withholding of diplomas, and demands for letters of apology are among the weapons used to attack freedom of speech.
The ICFI and its affiliated Socialist Equality Parties are advancing this initiative to begin and develop a global counteroffensive of the working class against the homicidal policies of the governments controlled by the capitalist ruling class, which are responsible for the worldwide catastrophe.
This resolution was adopted unanimously by the membership of the Socialist Equality Party in the United States at its Sixth National Congress, which was held online from July 19 to July 24, 2020.
The characteristic of every great crisis is that it lays bare the contradictions that have accumulated and been suppressed for decades. All that is backward, anachronistic, corrupt, and, in the most profoundly objective sense, absurd and even irrational in the economic organization, social structure, political leadership and dominant ideology of the existing society is brutally and comprehensively exposed. The pandemic is such a crisis.
This lecture by David North examines the causes for the betrayals of the trade unions in their hostility to the class struggle and socialism, and reviews the historical conflict between the trade unions and revolutionary Marxism. It was re-published in the 2014 book, The Russian Revolution and the Unfinished 20th Century.
