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This Labor Day one question dominates above all others: How will the transformation of the United States into a military-police dictatorship be stopped?
Workers must organize actions from below to enforce the necessary safety measures to make sure such deaths never happen again.
It must be said plainly: the strike is in danger as long as the AFSCME bureaucrats retain control. Victory can be achieved, but only if workers take control over the strike themselves.
Adams’ death is part of a continuing pattern of preventable workplace tragedies in which workers’ lives are sacrificed for the sake of profit.
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.
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.
The following resolution was unanimously supported by workers and young people at the public hearing in Detroit on Sunday, July 27.
The vote’s outcome underlines the urgent necessity of flight attendants at Air Canada and across North America, as well as workers in every economic sector, establishing their organizational and political independence from the trade union bureaucracy.
The Philadelphia Workers Rank-and-File Strike Committee calls for teachers and all city workers to build independent rank-and-file power to defeat austerity, union betrayal, and attacks on living standards.
The contract rejection must become the launching pad for a renewed fight based on an entirely new strategy—one that breaks the stranglehold of the CUPW bureaucracy and mobilizes the immense social power of the entire working class.
The Philadelphia municipal strike was not the end but the opening act in a rapid series of confrontations in Philadelphia and beyond.
The UAW bureaucracy is rushing to shut down the strike to prevent any further disruption to the Trump administration's war plans.
While ZF workers demonstrated their readiness to fight for their jobs, the protests merely served as leverage for the works council and IG Metall to become involved in the development of the restructuring program.
Fain shamelessly touted his support for the fascist in the White House as the administration ramped up its drive toward dictatorship and issued violent threats against opponents on the left.
Seoul has taken no measures to protest the attack on its citizens or against the US government, while attempting to mollify the growing anger in the population.
In appealing to Trump, the union chiefs have aligned themselves with the would-be dictator, who is preparing to deploy troops all over the country, including New York City, to crush resistance in the working class.
Trump told Fox News that Union Pacific CEO Jim Vena asked him to send troops to Memphis, St. Louis and Chicago, three cities critical for the rail industry.
A strike by transit workers in New York City, the center of American and world finance, would raise the critical issue of the entry of the working class into the fight against dictatorship.
The week-long rolling strike by more than 11,000 Rail, Maritime and Transport union members on the Tube and Docklands Light Railway began on Friday. The DLR was shut down entirely today, with trains idled in the sheds.
A strike by Kaiser nurses would be a major step in creating the conditions for a movement of the working class against fascism and corporate oligarchy. But for this to take place, Kaiser workers must also prepare a fight against the union bureaucracy.
More than 700 nurses and case workers, members of Teamsters Local 332, have been on strike for 10 days, while Henry Ford Health Genesys Hospital management continues to bring in scabs, and other unions at the facility have instructed their members to cross the picket lines.
Hundreds of nurses will hold a one-day strike at Kaiser Permanente Northern California over staffing, patient care and other working conditions.
Around 36,000 healthcare workers struck for two days in opposition to the government’s plan to cut wages amid a staffing crisis in hospitals.
The strike was shut down as it was garnering broader support, including from performers at the upcoming Farm Aid concert.
The prospect of extensive school closures looms over the Austin Independent School District (AISD) after nearly a third of its schools received failing marks from the Texas Education Agency (TEA).
The announcement of school closures comes as teachers were forced to accept a tentative agreement which left them poorer financially and with fewer protections against the school district.
On Wednesday, UMN police and Hennepin County deputies violently detained 12 striking University of Minnesota service workers outside Pioneer Hall, citing them for “interference with public property” while shoving an elderly worker to the ground and blocking sidewalks to prevent strikers and student supporters from passing.
Smalls was released by the Israeli government on Thursday after a five day hunger strike against his mistreatment.
Despite filing numerous complaints with HR and government agencies including the EEOC, Susan faced continued harassment and was denied medical accommodations.
The WSWS is urging workers to take matters into their own hands and organize a rank-and-file committee to investigate this and other needless incidents at JFK8 and fight for workers’ control over safety.
Leony Salcedo-Chevalier, 34, was fatally struck on April 9 by a box truck backing up in a loading dock at the JFK8 Amazon fulfillment center in New York.
The scientists warn: “Plastics are a grave, growing, and under-recognised danger to human and planetary health.”
“Closing the CSB will mean more accidents at chemical plants, more explosions and more deaths.”
The 250 striking workers were given just 48-hours notice to vote on a lengthy seven-year contract that failed to meet their key demands.
On strike for more than three months, Marathon workers called for joint action to stop the cutoff of their insurance on December 13.
The Mining and Energy Union has endorsed the reopening drive by owner Anglo American, which is anxious to restart operations to facilitate its pending sale of the mine.
“We prefer to speak out rather than continue walking in the footsteps of our fallen comrades. Our lives are worth more than copper,” reads an open letter from subcontract miners.
The operation is an extension of Operation Vala Umgodi that began with the Stilfontein massacre in January, where 90 miners died after police surrounded an abandoned mine, cutting off food supplies and forcing them to the surface.
The union leadership is seeking to use the legitimate concerns of workers over the future of Mudgee to limit the dispute to one town and to cut miners off from their colleagues elsewhere, who face the same assault on pay and conditions.
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.
Suspensions, banishments, withholding of diplomas, and demands for letters of apology are among the weapons used to attack freedom of speech.
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.
