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Originally published September 15, 2023 by Workers Strike Back UAW workers at the Big Three automakers are on strike.  Tens of thousands of workers at Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis have been preparing for weeks to go on strike to fight for their demands, including a 40 percent raise. They … Read more

Originally published August 23, 2023 by Workers Strike Back 350,000 Teamsters were prepared for a historic showdown with UPS. A successful strike could have brought UPS to its knees, and shown workers everywhere that when we fight, we can win. UPS reported record profits of $13 billion on sales of … Read more

Originally published July 13, 2023 Cedric Robinson’s book Black Marxism has influenced a wide layer of academics and activists. But as the review by Steve Edwards explains, the title is misleading. It is in reality an attack on Marxism. Robinson raises a number of arguments that are false and need … Read more

Originally published April 9, 2023 by Workers Strike Back Since announcing their union card collection drive, workers at Amazon Airhub KCVG in Northern Kentucky have faced intense union busting from Amazon management. On March 25, alongside Workers Strike Back and socialist Councilmember Kshama Sawant, the workers took the fight to … Read more

Far-right Republicans will use whatever leverage they have to extract concessions from party leadership. Meanwhile progressive Democrats and so-called socialists rely on a toothless “inside strategy” that betrays working people.

Originally published December 2, 2022 When AOC and other members of the “Squad” were first elected, most of them did so as self-identified “democratic socialists.” They ran on working-class platforms that included Medicare for All and a federal $15 minimum wage, vowing they would be accountable to working class and … Read more

Capitalists work hard to convince us that the exploitation and oppression we experience is natural and unchangeable. But working and young people can unite to overthrow the system—it’s up to us to build the revolutionary organizations that will make it possible.

Originally published May 22, 2022 The first half of 2022 has seen dramatic advances for the labor movement in the United States. Workers at more than 200 Starbucks stores in over 30 states have filed for union elections in a rapidly-growing movement that began in December of last year. Workers … Read more

Capitalism’s need for endless growth drives fossil fuel consumption—and the U.S. military is the largest consumer of fossil fuels in the world. We need to build an environmental movement that fully breaks with the empty promises of the pro-war Democrats, and fights to take major for-profit industries into democratic public ownership.

Originally published January 22, 2022 If Larry Margulies, the owner of Pavement Coffeehouse, had walked into any of his eight Boston-area cafés in late December, he would have gotten a taste of a new kind of solidarity now brewing across the country. Pavement’s newly-unionized baristas and sandwich makers, trailblazers in … Read more

For three weeks in late September and early October, rank and file union carpenters in Seattle were at the sharpest point of class struggle in the American labor movement. After rejecting four tentative agreements where their leadership pushed hard for a “yes” vote, an embattled membership took bold, independent initiative. … Read more

In 2014, Councilmember Kshama Sawant and other socialists led the fight to win the the first $15/hour minimum wage in any major city. It took a movement-building approach that refused to make backroom deals with labor leaders and the business establishment.

Originally published November 11, 2019 Contract Comes Up Short The longest Chicago school strike since 1987 was suspended November 1 after 11 days in which the Chicago Teachers’ Union (CTU) with 26,000 members, along with the 7,500 mostly low-paid school workers in SEIU Local 73 stood united, together with hundreds … Read more

In October 1917 in Russia, ordinary working people took power in a revolution, and held onto it for the first time in history.