UK: Jacobs Douwe Egberts workers struggle in peril
The struggle at JDE against fire and rehire is at the crossroads. A new strategy is needed to win.
Ioan Petrescu•
JDE coffee workers condemn fire and rehire: “It’s like a virus going through the whole of the workforce”
Many strikers expressed unease over Unite’s strategy of seeking a negotiated settlement with the company and its refusal to mobilise industrial action by JDE workers across Europe and internationally in the face of the company’s aggressive tactics.
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Proposed New York state legislation would subjugate rideshare and delivery app workers to corporatist unions
The legislation would continue classifying these workers as independent contractors, prohibiting strikes and other work actions.
Philip Guelpa•
Schools reopen in Turkey amid COVID-19 deaths
In Turkey, the country with the fifth-highest number of COVID-19 cases in the world, restrictions are being lifted and schools are reopening.
Hasan Yıldırım•
Tennessee Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee•
Carl Bronski•
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David Fitzgerald•
Eric London•
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.
Tennessee educators stand with striking Volvo workers!
Our committee stands in solidarity with the 3,000 striking workers at the Volvo Trucks plant in Dublin, Virginia, who have rejected the settlement brokered by the UAW.
Tennessee Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee•
WISAG Action Committee demands reinstatement of London bus driver David O'Sullivan
Ground workers at Frankfurt Airport in Germany have expressed their solidarity with sacked bus driver David O’Sullivan.
Action Committee of WISAG Ground Workers in Frankfurt•
Statement of Volvo workers: What’s next in our two-front war
This statement was written by the Volvo Workers Rank-and-File Committee (VWRFC) at the New River Valley Plant in Dublin, Virginia.
Volvo Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
A call to all workers to support the New River Valley Volvo workers’ struggle!
It is workers’ duty to intervene in this struggle on behalf of their own interests.
Baltimore Amazon Workers Rank-and-File Safety Committee•
Volvo Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
Jerry White•
The Committee for Public Education•
Andy Niklaus•
Florian Hasek, Tamino Dreisam•
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At this event, leading members of the SEP in the US, Germany and UK spoke on the national and global significance of the rise of fascism in America, its social and political origins, and the necessary strategy for the working class to fight back.
The working class must respond with a general strike to attempts by ultra-right mobs, instigated by the political criminal Donald Trump and his Republican Party accomplices in the Senate and Congress, to threaten the lives of elected representatives and seize government buildings and other strategic sites, whether in Washington DC or in state capitals throughout the country.
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 irreconcilable conflict between the capitalist class and the working class finds its most obscene expression in the correlation between the number of dead, unemployed and impoverished, and, on the other side of the ledger, the explosive rise of share values on Wall Street.
This is the opening report delivered by David North to the 2020 International May Day Online Rally held by the World Socialist Web Site and the International Committee of the Fourth International on May 2. North is the chairman of the International Editorial Board of the WSWS and the national chairman of the Socialist Equality Party in the US.
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 work, first published in 1998, evaluates the bitter historical experiences of the working class with the trade unions and national liberation movements, and with Stalinism as practiced in the former Soviet Union and China.
This lecture, given by Nick Beams at the 1998 International Summer School on Marxism and the Fundamental Problems of the 20th Century, explains how the unprecedented global integration of production exposes the bankruptcy of the nation-state system and is preparing the way for new revolutionary upheavals.
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.
This speech by David North was the opening address at the Labor at the Crossroads Conference held by the Workers League, the forerunner to the Socialist Equality Party (US), in Detroit on June 18-19, 1992.
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