This report was given by Eric London to the Seventh Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) in support of the resolution titled “Build the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees! For a global counteroffensive of the working class!”
The report issued in advance of the conference in Davos details a series of deepening crises: the ever-worsening economic outlook, the intensification of geopolitical conflicts and tensions, the deterioration of health care, and the effects of climate change.
The announcement by Google that it is laying off 12,000 workers is the latest in the intensifying jobs bloodbath in the technology sector internationally and the spearhead of a drive by the financial elite to impose the inflation crisis on the backs of the working class.
Lehman’s written protest is an encyclopedic historical record of the election, comprehensively detailing every facet of the antidemocratic conspiracy by the entrenched bureaucracy to cling to power by suppressing the vote.
We are building a network of rank-and-file committees of workers in key industries and workplaces to stop the spread of COVID-19 and save lives, and prepare for a political general strike.
Dockworkers have immense power, but the question is how to use it. Establishing lines of communication with workers in other strategic industries, they must build their struggle into a broad counteroffensive by the working class against worsening conditions and automation-driven layoffs.
The Boeing Workers Rank-and-File Committee issued this response to the aerospace company's "Best and Final Contract Offer."
The USW maintains we should leave the decisions to the courts where, apparently, major issues can be hashed out in an “independent legal forum.” The decision in the Quoc Le case, which culminates a sad nearly 4-year saga, has blown this “theory” out of the water and exposed the consequences of the USW’s efforts to subordinate our struggle to pro-employer state institutions.
The strikes at both Boeing and Textron are part of a growing movement of workers fighting to assert their basic social rights and fight against growing social inequality and for decent living standards.
The union is facilitating the destruction of a portion of its membership. This is the logical follow-up to the sellout contract agreed to by SAG-AFTRA after a lengthy strike last year.
We recently spoke to stuntwoman-actress Michelle Shock about the SAG-AFTRA contract and the general situation in the film and television industry.
When only a little more than a third of the membership bothers to vote in such circumstances, this has to be considered a vote of non-confidence in the union leadership.
The Drescher-Crabtree-Ireland leadership and the national board as a whole have proven themselves to be conscious agents of the corporate predators.
Favorable conditions are emerging for waging an all-out fight against job cuts, which the UAW apparatus is desperately seeking to hold back.
All workers must stand shoulder to shoulder with dockworkers and launch a joint struggle that unites all sections of the working class.
A striking Eaton worker in Michigan was killed late Saturday night when a pickup truck lost control and crashed into a group of workers picketing near the factory.
With less than two weeks before Stellantis lays off 2,500 workers at Warren Truck, a veteran autoworker is calling for an all-out fight to defend jobs.
The lawsuit, launched by the ACLU in California, alleges that the summary banishment by the University of California Regents was illegal.
Suspensions, banishments, withholding of diplomas, and demands for letters of apology are among the weapons used to attack freedom of speech.
The significance of the strike, and the police-state measures used to end it, are that they anticipate an even broader and more explosive confrontation between the working class, which is being forced to pay the cost of war, and American and world imperialism.
The UAW apparatus is a critical instrument of the Biden administration, which is relying on the discredited labor bureaucracy to hold back opposition to US imperialism’s wars for global domination.
"We have to press our advantage. We are demonstrating in every industry that we are the most powerful social force and now it must be organized."
Victims of industrial poisoning of East Palestine say that the class action settlement does not go far enough to restore what they have lost, or to compensate them if health problems develop in the future.
Amid the need to mobilize workers across North America to refuse to handle redirected shipments, the union bureaucracies are ordering their members to scab on the historic US strike.
On the first day of the walkout by 45,000 dockworkers, several spoke to WSWS reporters about the issues at stake in this struggle.
More than 7,000 Michigan Medicine workers are in a fight against the hospital and University of Michigan administration for a new contract.
The results were announced on the same day Reeves delivered her high-profile speech to the Labour Party conference claiming to be “proud to stand here as the first Chancellor in 14 years to have delivered a meaningful, real pay rise to millions of public sector workers.”
“When you go to work, you don’t want to think about the pay, you’re there to care for sick people. But it’s difficult when you’re given eight patients all by yourself.”
The mass attendance expresses the mounting hostility among nurses and midwives to the Labor government, which is seeking to cut real wages, even as working conditions in the public health system become increasingly dire.
Throughout the university sector, managements have responded to Labor’s “loopholes” legislation by preventing casuals from gaining any claim to permanency or ending their employment altogether.
The lawsuit, launched by the ACLU in California, alleges that the summary banishment by the University of California Regents was illegal.
CEO Pedro Martinez has refused to resign and his position has become a flashpoint for divisions in the ruling class over how to handle the district’s upcoming fiscal cliff and suppress the wage demands of teachers and other educators.
The strike was suspended by the UCU because Hallam’s University Executive Board made a renewed offer the union will put to the membership. No details have been released about the renewed offer.
With the ALU and the Teamsters offering no strategy against Amazon, workers at the JFK8 fulfillment center in Staten Island, New York, must seize the initiative in their struggle against the retail giant.
The KSBD air hub, which opened in March of 2021, is one of Amazon’s largest facilities on the West Coast.
Last week about 100 package delivery drivers at Amazon’s DIL7 Delivery Station in Skokie, IL went on strike demanding wage increases, a standard 40-hour work week, and to protest union busting efforts by the company.
Everything is done to paint Stallings as a terrible mother, but absent from the official narrative is any questioning of the social conditions that would deprive a working parent of childcare, forcing them to bring their children to their workplaces.
More than 270 workers went on strike Wednesday morning to demand substantial wage increases and an end to exhausting work schedules that threaten the health and safety of workers and the surrounding working-class community in southwest Detroit.
GB Energy will form “an enduring partnership with business” to provide corporations, including the Crown Estate, with a profit bonanza, at the same time facilitating Starmer’s war economy agenda.
Major energy companies are merging as 2023 saw the greatest consolidation of the oil and gas industry in over a decade, with $243 billion spent on mergers and acquisitions.
The devastating blasts, occurring 13 hours apart, left three workers injured and necessitated an emergency evacuation of more than 50,000 residents from the surrounding area.
Two deaths during August at the Byerwen Coal Mine brought the official number of miners who have lost their lives in the state of Queensland’s mining sector during the past decade to 26.
The draconian sentences signal “the criminalization of social protest and the use of criminal law to prevent people from defending their rights,” said the miners’ attorney.
The tradition must be recovered of the struggle of miners serving as a powerful spearhead in the fight for social equality and the ending of centuries of colonialist looting.
Unemployment is rising across the country, with the highest levels recorded in working-class areas.
Striking London United bus strikers spoke to WSWS reports during their strike this weekend.
Last May, the union pushed through a 2.25 percent increase for a two-year agreement up to December 2021. Shepherds Bush was one of three garages that voted the deal down.
A driver from Norwood told WSWS, “It’s a really difficult time. Mortgages are going up and we have to work overtime to make ends meet. Without overtime you can’t survive.”
By Unite’s own admission, it has presided over four years of below-inflation pay deals. It now wants to impose another one.
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.
