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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 blatant violation of basic constitutional protections coincided with and was encouraged by Trump’s deployment of troops to Chicago.
Stellantis, the United Auto Workers and Michigan safety officials continue to remain silent on the death of the 63-year-old skilled tradesman, even as full production at the engine plant has resumed.
The Department of Labor had sought to use the government shutdown as an excuse to stall compliance with a court-ordered deadline.
The IG Metall union, with over 2 million members—most of them in the car industry, is helping divide workers and prevent genuine opposition.
By refusing even to acknowledge this conspiracy to use military force against workers, the rail unions show themselves to be tools not only of the railroads but also of the would-be dictator.
What is now unravelling in closed-door talks between RMT officials and management is Dempsey’s hollow claim that a “compromise” can be reached which “works on both sides”.
The strike is at a decisive phase. Either workers throw out the corrupt apparatus and build a new leadership, organized in a rank-and-file strike committee and based on a strategy for victory, or the bureaucracy will end the strike with a betrayal.
Strike action by 2,000 Greater Manchester bus drivers at Stagecoach, First Bus and Metroline scheduled for Tuesday to Thursday this week was largely suspended at the last minute by Unite in collusion with Labour Mayor Andy Burnham.
The following is an open letter from the WSWS Healthcare Worker Newsletter to the nearly 46,000 Kaiser Permanente workers.
This strike is not simply a contract dispute over wages or staffing levels. It is a political confrontation with the corporate oligarchy which is destroying public health.
The fight at Airedale hospital cannot be won through action against a single Trust. It requires a far wider mobilisation against the SubCos throughout the National Health Service—a struggle which all the unions have divided and demobilised.
Against the fascist policy of destroying healthcare, workers must demand healthcare as a social right for all. This requires the expropriation of the private healthcare industry and the creation of a public healthcare system under the direction of healthcare workers themselves, not corporate politicians.
The Leadership of the United Federation of Teachers in New York City, with the collaboration of other city unions, have now lowered the quality of medical care for city workers in order to save the city hundreds of millions of dollars.
Veteran educator and founding member of the Alabama Rank-and-File Educators Committee Clare discusses the significance of the Socialist Equality Party’s recent statement on the way forward in the fight against fascism and dictatorship.
A proposal was released Friday by the Austin Independent School District to close 13 schools, causing panic and anger among parents and school teachers. The plan includes the closure of 11 elementary schools and two middle schools.
WSU vice-chancellor George Williams confirmed that his agreement with the unions meant a “net loss” of 193 jobs, plus a supposed “merits-based” process forcing hundreds of staff to compete for “new roles.”
Amazon management did nothing to stop the alleged bullying of Mylen Belyue, which contributed to a mental health crisis.
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 Chevron refinery disaster reveals decades of bipartisan deregulation, corporate impunity, and the collapse of environmental oversight amid the Trump administration’s shutdown and California Democrats’ fraudulent “green” agenda.
The massive explosion at Chevron’s El Segundo refinery, narrowly avoiding mass casualties, exposes the deadly consequences of corporate cost-cutting and bipartisan deregulation amid America’s crumbling industrial base.
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.”
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.
