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•
9,300 Canadian CN and CPKC railroad workers authorize strike action as soon as May 22
A simultaneous strike by rail workers at both companies would quickly bring the country’s economy to its knees and significantly impact the North American economy as a whole. For this reason, it is safe to assume that discussions are already under way between the trade union-backed Trudeau Liberal government and the Biden administration on how to scuttle the rail strike.
Niles Niemuth•
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
India: Tamil Nadu tea plantation workers demand on-time wage payments and improved social conditions; Australia: Child safety support workers strike in Tasmania; Federal court intervenes against striking Queensland’s Cross River Rail construction workers
Australia: Victorian nurses and midwives vote for strikes against Labor government wage cuts
Health workers in Victoria have rejected Labor’s 3 percent nominal pay increase and voted overwhelmingly in favour of industrial action including work stoppages of up to four hours.
Margaret Rees•
Lecturers: Reject sellout contract! Strike to halt crackdown against student protests! Secure a living wage, pay parity and job security at all University of Michigan campuses!
The Michigan Educators Rank-and-File Committee and the International Youth and Students for Social Equality at the University of Michigan call on members of the Lecturers’ Employee Organization to vote “No” on the sellout contract announced by the LEO leadership and organize a strike to halt the repression of peaceful student protests at U-M and nationwide against US/Israeli genocide in Gaza.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality at the University of Michigan, Michigan Educators Rank-and-File Committee•
Tom Hall•
Matt Rigel•
Marianne Arens•
Our reporters•
Tim Rivers•
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).