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In his campaign announcement, Lehman called for workers to support his campaign, including by running as delegates for the UAW Constitutional Convention, which will be held from June 15-18.
The first month of 2026 has seen the eruption of major social struggles in the US, with mass protests against ICE killings and dictatorship developing into a growing, class-based strike movement.
A change is underway which is penetrating ever deeper into the working class. After 40 years of suppression of the class struggle, following the defeats imposed in the 1980s, the working class in the United States is beginning to move again.
The call for a one‑day general strike and economic shutdown on Friday, January 23 to oppose the rampage by Trump’s ICE must become the beginning of a broader working class mobilization across the city, state and country against the Trump administration.
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.
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.
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.
Determined to win safe staffing and secure workplaces, the nurses must now wrest control of the strike from the union bureaucrats, expand the struggle to other hospitals and adopt a new strategy based on rank-and-file power and political independence.
Refinery workers must organize themselves from below to fight for a deal that meets their demands, taking all actions necessary, up to and including a national strike.
On Tuesday, a day after the New York State Nurses Association announced sellout tentative agreements with Montefiore and Mount Sinai, the union leadership is violating its own bylaws to shut down the strike at the remaining hospital system, NewYork Presbyterian.
The layoffs came the same week GM reported more than $12 billion in pre-tax earnings for 2025, along with plans to hike shareholder returns through dividend increases and a $6 billion stock buyback scheme.
Workers are outraged by the betrayals of the UAW bureaucracy and the escalating attack on jobs and the social and democratic rights of the working class.
Ford worker Thomas “TJ” Sabula has reportedly returned to work after being suspended without pay for calling Donald Trump a “pedophile protector” during the president's January 13 tour of the plant.
In December 2024, Works Council leader Daniela Cavallo and IG Metall district manager Thorsten Gröger announced a “Christmas miracle” at Volkswagen: 35,000 jobs cut and wages reduced by up to 20 percent. Now the board members are collecting bonuses of up to €1.75 million each.
In his campaign announcement, Lehman called for workers to support his campaign, including by running as delegates for the UAW Constitutional Convention, which will be held from June 15-18.
The current nationwide strike shows the power transport workers have. But under the control of the Verdi union bureaucracy, it serves only to vent our anger and then sideline us.
The USPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee also calls for mass participation in the Minnesota strike, part of a wave of class struggle across the country which has the potential to change the country.
The Socialist Equality Party statements were welcomed by workers, who opposed the imperialist banditry of the Trump administration and declared their solidarity with US workers mounting a struggle against the would-be dictator.
This is a repeat of the bureaucrats’ action last September, when they blocked a strike by calling on Trump to appoint a Presidential Emergency Board (PEB), whose findings were rejected by management.
Federal investigators found that Kaiser had systematically failed to provide adequate access to in-network mental health and substance use disorder treatment for thousands of members in California.
Angered by the New York State Nurses Association’s attempt to coerce them into ratifying a pro-management contract, the striking nurses are unwilling to give up their struggle until they have won safe staffing ratios.
Determined to win safe staffing and secure workplaces, the nurses must now wrest control of the strike from the union bureaucrats, expand the struggle to other hospitals and adopt a new strategy based on rank-and-file power and political independence.
The struggle for better conditions for health employees is inseparably bound up with defending free healthcare, won through the bitter struggles of the working class, and supported by the poor.
The CFPE—the educators’ rank-and-file network—urges educators to vote yes on the ballot, including for strike action, but warns that the AEU bureaucracy is preparing another sellout deal, as it did in 2022.
USIC is owned by Study Group and operates in partnership the University of Sheffield, using its prefix and coat of arms to attract international students to study preparation courses that can cost up to £26,000 per year.
The rally showed the powerful support for the strike, which the union bureaucrats and Democratic Party are now attempting to shut down.
San Francisco educators, on strike since February 9, should reject with contempt the betrayal of their four-day strike and expand the struggle to Los Angeles and beyond. The fight against manufactured austerity is the defense of public education everywhere.
A new and far-reaching wave of mass layoffs is sweeping the United States, marking a decisive escalation in the ruling class’s assault on the working class.
Amazon announced a second round of job cuts Friday as part of its goal of laying off 30,000 employees.
Amazon workers face grueling quotas and draconian computerized surveillance techniques, used to enforce productivity during the peak holiday season with resultant injury rates double the industry average.
The trillions hoarded by the billionaires must be expropriated and used to meet social needs: secure, well-paid jobs for all, healthcare, housing, education, and the eradication of hunger and poverty.
Opposition to the company’s proposals is enormous at Whiting, which voted 98 percent to strike. But if the USW’s pattern agreement is accepted at other refineries, it sets the stage for a strike to be isolated, giving management the upper hand.
Refinery workers must organize themselves from below to fight for a deal that meets their demands, taking all actions necessary, up to and including a national strike.
The first month of 2026 has seen the eruption of major social struggles in the US, with mass protests against ICE killings and dictatorship developing into a growing, class-based strike movement.
The deal would increase wages by only 15 percent over four years, while leaving intact forced overtime regimes, limited sick leave and longstanding staffing and safety issues.
There is still no official explanation for the tragedy, but mine owner Polymetals has been allowed to proceed with business as usual, as if nothing had happened.
Jeff Palmer, 59, is the third worker to be killed at the Coronado Global Resources-owned mine in the past six years.
The NSW Resources Regulator’s November 25 “Investigation information release” neither explains what caused the tragedy nor makes any recommendation for how to stop more workers being killed.
“It is very frightening for workers and their families when they don’t know why this happened. Everyone needs answers—not just the residents of Cobar but people all over Australia.” – Cobar miner’s wife
This strike vote is unfolding amid a rapidly escalating and explosive wave of working class opposition across the United States, raising the potential for a general strike.
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.
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.
