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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.
Workers from Windsor, Ontario and suburban Detroit spoke out against the destruction of jobs and the UAW and Unifor’s support for trade war.
While calling for a strike authorization vote, the UAW has not set a strike deadline and signaled its acceptance of VW’s substandard pay offer.
General Motors on Wednesday announced a new wave of job cuts at its US electric-vehicle and battery operations, part of a mounting assault on jobs throughout the American and global economy.
GM's shuttering of the EV van assembly plant will eliminate more than 1,000 jobs. The fate of GM’s nearby, wholly-owned Ultium battery operation and the 200 workers employed there remains in limbo.
“Everyone in this country needs to stand up and walk out. We all need to go on strike. I’ve been thinking for the last year about all these things.”
The deals struck are not the result of the fight bus workers sought to wage, but of the collusion of the Unite apparatus with the private operators and Andy Burnham to protect Greater Manchester’s franchise arrangements with three of the largest and most profitable bus companies in the UK.
Last November, Kingsley Fifi Bimpong, a 50-year-old immigrant postal worker, died after Eagan, Minnesota police arrested him on false suspicion of drunk driving and left him to suffer a fatal stroke on the floor of a jail cell.
As a matter of principle, strikes should not be called off until workers have discussed and agreed a deal. This is an attempt to foist on members an agreement worked out between the companies and the union in secret.
Following the mass public sector strike in New Zealand, the November 9 online meeting will discuss the socialist and internationalist strategy required to fight austerity, wage cuts, dictatorship and war.
Streeting’s attempt to pose as the NHS’s defender is grotesque. He is a bought-and-paid-for representative of the private health lobby, receiving £372,000 in donations since 2015.
Behind his hot air on the picket line, the real purpose of O'Brien's visit is to help shut the strike down.
Healthcare workers and teachers, who were among 100,000 people on strike last Thursday, spoke about the impact of poverty and homelessness on schools and hospitals, and denounced the National Party-led government’s support for war and genocide.
School bus operators have said they will lay off thousands of workers and stop bus service if they are not offered five-year contract extensions.
Teachers in Tasmania held stoppages this week in the latest sign of mounting unrest among educators and other public sector workers nationally.
Following the mass public sector strike in New Zealand, the November 9 online meeting will discuss the socialist and internationalist strategy required to fight austerity, wage cuts, dictatorship and war.
"At university, they push us to attract industry funds, and they do not encourage critical thinking in students. It shouldn't be about job training all the time!”
Mass layoffs at Amazon, UPS, Paramount Global, and in the auto industry reveal the corporate offensive to cut jobs and weaponize AI against the working class.
The move marks an accelerating jobs bloodbath, with rapid advances in automation and artificial intelligence being weaponized to eliminate entire sections of the workforce.
Amazon announced last week that it would be cutting thousands of employees as part of an ongoing series of layoffs at the tech giant. The move follows a previous series of massive job cuts at the company and in the technology sector as a whole.
Amazon management did nothing to stop the alleged bullying of Mylen Belyue, which contributed to a mental health crisis.
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.”
“If there was a clear failure somewhere, you could say ‘let’s make sure that’s not happening anywhere else.'”
Just three days after two workers were killed and another was seriously injured in the blast, Polymetals Resources has announced that work will resume at the mine on Wednesday.
After initial news reportage, the mainstream media has largely dropped the story, showing little interest in how this tragedy will impact psychologically and economically on the immediate families or the community.
“Whether it’s safe work, governments or the unions, they’re all covering up the real cause of workplace deaths and injuries, that is, the capitalist system that puts profits over lives.”
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.
