UPS workers say: The working class must oppose the attack on students’ right to protest!
Students have taken a courageous stand. But we, the working class, have to be the base of the fight against war.
The UPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
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!
The way to commemorate our colleagues’ deaths is to end the subordination of workers’ lives to corporate profits at National Steel Car and beyond!
The Day of Mourning and the stated purposes behind it has been in effect for 34 years. Yet at our workplace alone, four people, brothers Andrew Kenmuir, Fraser Cowan, Colin Grayley, Quoc Le, have been gruesomely killed in 20 years—three of them in less than two.
National Steel Car Rank-and-File Committee•
Open letter to Teamsters General President O’Brien: We demand answers on layoffs!
We workers have every right to take all action deemed necessary to protect our jobs, regardless of whether you choose to sanction them or not. If you will not fight the layoffs, then get out of the way so that UPS workers can do it ourselves.
The UPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
Fight the UPS job cuts: For workers’ control over production and new technologies!
A rank-and-file rebellion against not just management, but also against the union bureaucracy, is the only thing that can stop this. As long as the Teamsters sellout artists remain in charge, UPS will succeed in its drive to cut jobs. But if we break out of their control, and develop new, alternative structures, that will change the balance of power in our favor.
The UPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
The UPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
Health Workers Action Committee (Sri Lanka)•
National Steel Car Rank-and-File Committee•
Roger Jordan•
Committee for Public Education•
Alstom plants in eastern Germany threatened with closure
The IG Metall union has been agreeing to job cuts and wage reductions for years, claiming this improves “competitivity” and so made jobs safer. Now, 3,700 workers face the loss of their livelihoods.
Dietmar Gaisenkersting•
Australia spearheads US war plans against China in the Indo-Pacific
This is the text of the speech delivered by Cheryl Crisp, the national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia), to the 2024 International May Day Online Rally.
Cheryl Crisp•
Teacher stoppages across Europe to protest staff shortages, pay and conditions; journalists walk out at Italy’s TV and radio broadcaster, while journalists will strike at Radio France over censorship; protests continue across Iran by workers and retirees over increasing poverty; Kenyan health workers’ funding strike begun March 14 continues
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
Teachers in multiple strikes across Europe, in parts of Belgium, Spain, Portugal, a town in Croatia and one-day national strike in Turkey over funding and conditions; Italy’s journalists walk out over attempts to turn state broadcaster into government mouthpiece, while journalists at radio France to strike Sunday after sacking over Netanyahu joke; cost-of-living protests continue across Iran by workers including truck drivers, construction workers and retirees; Kenyan health workers’ strike in third month over health service starved of funds
The working class must take up the fight against the genocide in Gaza and in defense of democratic rights
The ruling class is terrified of the student protests because they can arouse the working class. A strike vote by graduate students in California shows there is a growing recognition that the methods of class struggle are required.
Tom Hall•
Alan Whyte•
Will Lehman•
Nancy Hanover•
Shannon Jones•
Jerry White•
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).