US autoworkers discuss class issues behind Trump’s attack on immigrants
Workers from the Stellantis Kokomo Rank-and-File Committee sponsored a meeting to discuss the fight against job cuts and Trump’s attack on immigrant workers.
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Build rank-and-file committees!
The World Socialist Web Site and the Socialist Equality Parties are assisting workers everywhere in the building of an interconnected network of rank-and-file committees, to organize a united counter-offensive against inequality, exploitation, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and the rapidly escalating imperialist world war.
Join a rank-and-file committee!
There are now rank-and-file committees of autoworkers, educators, Amazon and logistics workers, postal workers, bus drivers, and many other sections of the working class.
Rank-and-file committees are of, by and for the rank-and-file workers, who have a different set of interests than management, the bosses, the politicians, and the trade union apparatus, who oppress workers in order to defend the profits of the ruling elite.
Contact us now to join a committee. If there is not already a committee in your workplace, industry or region, we will help you start one!
Oppose Zionist witch hunt against Australian academic Randa Abdel-Fattah
The latest attack on Abdel-Fattah has been spearheaded by the Murdoch media, which has conducted a campaign of bullying and harassment against anti-genocide voices, slandering them as antisemitic.
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Expand the Stellantis Kokomo Rank-and-File Committee! End the blackmailing of workers and job cuts!
The Kokomo Rank-and-File Committee has issued a call to build and expand committees at Stellantis and across the Big Three to oppose job cuts.
Stellantis Kokomo Rank-and-File Committee•
International working class unity, not the USW’s support for tariffs and nationalist warmongering, can defend our jobs at National Steel Car!
We know workers at National Steel car are going through a rough time right now. These massive layoffs, affecting some 1,200 workers or approximately three-quarters of our workforce, are happening at the worst possible time and are obviously causing a lot of stress.
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Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
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Health Workers Rank-and File Committee•
Australia: Mass resignation of psychiatrists a symptom of broader mental health crisis
Mental health services are disastrously under-funded and under-resourced after decades of government cuts.
Margaret Rees, Richard Phillips, Martin Scott•
Victimisation of Alton estate workers in Sri Lanka continues
In March 2021, 38 Alton plantation workers were sacked and 22 of them arrested on trumped up charges. Four years later the Labor Tribunal has refused to reinstate the workers and the 22 are still being dragged through the courts.
M. Thevarajah, W.A. Sunil•
Amazon’s expansion in Knoxville threatens jobs and livelihoods of rural carriers
The e-commerce giant has extended its reach into smaller markets and rural areas, a move that has significant economic implications for rural carriers and raises serious questions about the future of the United States Postal Service.
Jane Wise•
Warning strikes at Berlin’s local transit operator BVG
At all costs, the trade unions, politicians and big business want to avoid industrial action at BVG, as across other sectors and companies, in the midst of the current federal election campaign.
Transport Workers Action Committee•
Niles Niemuth•
Jerry White•
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Margaret Rees, Richard Phillips•
The pandemic must be ended!
On October 24, the World Socialist Web Site and the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees brought together a panel of leading scientists to explain how the virus that causes COVID-19 could be eliminated.
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Workers in the United States and throughout the world must decide to act collectively and finally put an end to the COVID-19 pandemic. 2022 must not be another nightmarish year of mass infections, illness and death!
The implementation of a scientifically guided and progressive response to the pandemic is possible only to the extent that these policies find the necessary social foundation in a mass movement of the working class on a global scale.
“The aim of this global initiative is to develop a genuine broad-based movement of the international working class, and to encourage workers in all countries to break out of the prison-like shackles in which they are confined by the existing state-controlled and antidemocratic unions, staffed by right-wing pro-capitalist executives.” – DAVID NORTH
The International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees, with the political assistance of the Fourth International and the Socialist Equality Parties, will strive to unify workers in a common worldwide struggle, opposing every effort by capitalist governments and the reactionary proponents of the innumerable forms of national, ethnic and racial chauvinism and identity politics to split up the working class into warring factions.
All over the world the trade unions, including those which were founded through bitter struggles led by socialist-minded workers, now play the leading role in enforcing the dictates of management.
In this lecture, delivered in Sydney, Australia in January, 1998, David North explains this profound transformation through an historical examination of the trade unions themselves.
On August 3, 1981, 15,000 members of the union of air traffic controllers in the US—the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO)—went out on strike against their employer, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).