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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.
Although the jobs massacre is part of a massive wave of sackings, the IG Metall union and its Works Council representatives are doing nothing to defend jobs. The building of independent rank-and-file action committees, which oppose the nationalist policies of the union apparatus and its factory police, is more urgent than ever.
At a meeting for workers returning from layoff, management and United Auto Workers officials maintained a guilty silence about the death of the 63-year-old skilled tradesman.
The ruling sets an October 31 deadline for the government to provide its explanation for rejecting Lehman’s claims about the anti-democratic character of the UAW elections, more than a year after it was first instructed to do so.
The US auto company, First Brands, involved in the sale of parts and highly dependent on debt, is facing bankruptcy, with its creditors involved to the tune of billions of dollars.
Strike action by 2,000 Greater Manchester bus drivers at Stagecoach, First Bus and Metroline scheduled for Tuesday to Thursday this week was largely suspended at the last minute by Unite in collusion with Labour Mayor Andy Burnham.
Dockworkers’ blockade of an Israeli arms shipment in Genoa exposes the power of the working class against genocide—yet it also highlights the urgent need for independent, international, revolutionary organization.
Riders and workers warn of economic catastrophe as CTA officials outline a potential $1 billion shortfall, with solutions hinging on state action.
The demands of London transport workers are coming into head-on collision with the Starmer government’s brutal austerity and frontal assault on workers’ rights.
NHS England’s agreement with Unison confirms the preferred strategy of the Starmer government: inflict attacks on NHS workers via collaboration with the health unions.
The strike by 6,000 doctors follows nationwide strikes by tens of thousands of teachers and nurses against the government’s austerity measures.
Streeting’s “reform” rhetoric is code for the worst attack on the NHS and its workforce since it was founded 77 years ago as the jewel in the crown of the post-war welfare state.
Tens of thousands of healthcare workers and teachers have held nationwide strikes, but the development of a real fight against austerity requires a socialist perspective and a rebellion against the union bureaucracy.
The announcement marks a further escalation in the nationwide campaign of the Republican Party and the Trump administration to dismantle public education, criminalize teachers, and mobilize a political army around authoritarianism.
Protests have been held throughout the state following the abduction of Dr. Ian Roberts by ICE agents on Friday.
A separate state bill, passed in 2023, allows teachers to carry firearms in school as the “solution” to mass shootings.
Teachers are being crushed by an ever-expanding administrative workload, while also being asked to deal with the increasing and complex social and emotional traumas of students and their families.
Amazon management did nothing to stop the alleged bullying of Mylen Belyue, which contributed to a mental health crisis.
Reporting teams from the World Socialist Web Site distributed copies of the Socialist Equality Party’s statement, “Trump’s fascist conspiracy and how to fight it: A socialist strategy,” which was received with great interest.
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 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.
Mining giants BHP Mitsubishi Alliance and Anglo American are threatening the livelihoods and futures of coking coal mine workers in Queensland’s Bowen Basin and beyond.
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 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.
