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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.
For those reading this in Canada thinking this explosion happened in the US and thankfully it cannot happen here, they should look soberly at what our current Prime Minister is doing without any real pushback, and our experience at the National Steel Car plant in Hamilton, Ontario.
The trillions hoarded by the billionaires must be expropriated and used to meet social needs: secure, well-paid jobs for all, healthcare, housing, education, and the eradication of hunger and poverty.
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.
Ford has extended layoffs at its massive Rouge complex, idling the Dearborn Truck Plant (DTP) and Rouge Electric Vehicle Center (REV-C), which together employ 4,000 workers.
The trillions hoarded by the billionaires must be expropriated and used to meet social needs: secure, well-paid jobs for all, healthcare, housing, education, and the eradication of hunger and poverty.
The department dismissed the complaint of Will Lehman, a socialist Mack Trucks worker and candidate for UAW president in 2022, documenting mass disenfranchisement in the government-supervised election.
Workers from Windsor, Ontario and suburban Detroit spoke out against the destruction of jobs and the UAW and Unifor’s support for trade war.
The company’s “proactive” decision is an exercise in damage control intended to conceal its prioritization of profit above safety.
Union Pacific, whose CEO discussed with Trump which cities to send troops to, is using the donation to curry favor for approval of its proposed merger with Norfolk Southern.
Far from Labour Mayor Andy Burnham’s PR, claiming the Bee Network as an exemplar for public transport, every section of public transport workers in Greater Manchester are revolting against the shoddy pay and conditions that have been enforced by TfGM and the private operators.
The transit union leadership has refused to call a strike following SEPTA workers’ contract expiration, a clear violation of the members’ rights to a contract.
This is the fifth limited strike in two years since the nurses unionized, and nothing has changed. The strategy of appealing to management to come to the table has led nowhere for the rank and file.
On the picket line, nurses spoke angrily about the political situation in the United States, in particular president Trump’s attacks on food stamps and Medicaid.
Hospital management is refusing to address acute staffing issues, threatening instead to file unfair labor practice charges.
Henry Ford Health has announced a plan to impose contract terms on nurses at Genesys Hospital in Grand Blanc, Michigan and breaking their strike in the fight for mandatory staffing ratios for which they have remained steadfast for more than two months.
Victoria, the country’s second-largest public education system, sits at the centre of a crisis, with some of the lowest school funding and wages after more than 11 years of a state Labor government.
On the eve of the largest coordinated strike in UC history, the University Professional and Technical Employees (UPTE) has moved to divide the ranks.
The longtime president of the American Federation of Teachers and leading Democratic Party figure is incapable of presenting a historical and scientific analysis of fascism, let alone a proposal for educators to fight it.
The pay deal will be linked to productivity and further cuts to an education system already facing a recruitment crisis, crumbling buildings, lack of SEND (special needs) places and with schools forced to provide social and food provision to deal with a child poverty crisis.
The trillions hoarded by the billionaires must be expropriated and used to meet social needs: secure, well-paid jobs for all, healthcare, housing, education, and the eradication of hunger and poverty.
Mass layoffs at Amazon, UPS, Paramount Global, and in the auto industry reveal the corporate offensive to cut jobs and weaponize AI against the working class.
The move marks an accelerating jobs bloodbath, with rapid advances in automation and artificial intelligence being weaponized to eliminate entire sections of the workforce.
Amazon announced last week that it would be cutting thousands of employees as part of an ongoing series of layoffs at the tech giant. The move follows a previous series of massive job cuts at the company and in the technology sector as a whole.
The Chevron refinery disaster reveals decades of bipartisan deregulation, corporate impunity, and the collapse of environmental oversight amid the Trump administration’s shutdown and California Democrats’ fraudulent “green” agenda.
The massive explosion at Chevron’s El Segundo refinery, narrowly avoiding mass casualties, exposes the deadly consequences of corporate cost-cutting and bipartisan deregulation amid America’s crumbling industrial base.
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 Beaconsfield and Grosvenor disasters are just two among many which demonstrate that mining workers cannot entrust their health and lives to management, governments, safety regulators, or the trade unions.
Besides the temporary cordoning off of one section of the mine, “no other restrictions” have been imposed. The safety regulator is leaving the decision to reopen and resume the use of explosives entirely in the hands of the company.
The Endeavor incident that killed two workers last week is far from an isolated tragedy. It is part of a growing pattern, in Australia and globally, of preventable workplace deaths and injuries.
The film rewrites history to promote the Labour Party and the union bureaucracy, obscuring their role both in the 2010 mine disaster, which killed 29 people, and in the ongoing cover-up.
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.
