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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.

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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!

Statements of rank-and-file committees
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Pennsylvania USPS workers form rank-and-file committee: “We call for a struggle that unifies all postal workers”

The postal service—a product of the American Revolution—has been systematically bled over decades by both Democratic and Republican parties. We have been forced to operate like a profit-making company despite the clear intention by the Founding Fathers to have the mail system as a universal right to all in the name of having an informed society able to fight back against tyranny.

Southern Pennsylvania Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee•

“Attacks on postal workers are accelerating, and the official channels have proven incapable of stopping them”

St. Paul USPS workers found Rank-and-File Committee

The future of the Postal Service will not be decided in our favor if workers remain isolated and passive. Our strength lies in our unity.

St. Paul Processing and Distribution Center Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
latest news - the global class struggle
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Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

India: Karnataka garment workers protest pension and provident-fund restrictions; Western Australian coalminers strike over pay and redundancy entitlements; NZ university and polytech staff vote for unified strike.

The pandemic must be ended!
How to end the pandemic

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.


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(AP Photo/Brittainy Newman) [AP Photo/Brittainy Newman]
An open letter to the working class

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!


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(AP Photo/Julie Bennett)
WSWS NEW YEAR STATEMENT
2022: Year Three of the pandemic and the emerging global class struggle

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.


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MAY DAY 2021
The founding of the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees

“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


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Nurses walk out of Montefiore New Rochelle Hospital to go on strike over safe staffing issues during the coronavirus pandemic, Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020, in New Rochelle, N.Y. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
Statement of the international committee of the fourth international
Forward to the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees!

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.


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DAVID NORTH
Why are the trade unions hostile to socialism?

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.


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AUG 3, 2011 • TOM MACKAMAN
Thirty years since the PATCO strike

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).


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