Martha Grevatt

World Federation of Trade Unions advances ‘class-oriented’ unionism

Durban, South Africa - For U.S. labor activists, who have to contend with a conservative labor bureaucracy that at times…

October 28, 2016

World unions meet in South Africa

Durban, South Africa The 17th Congress of the World Federation of Trade Unionists, held in Durban, South Africa, from Oct.…

October 14, 2016

Moorehead/Lilly campaign pushes forward in Michigan

Michigan supporters of Workers World Party presidential candidate Monica Moorehead and vice presidential candidate Lamont Lilly recently learned that the…

October 7, 2016

Labor groups strengthen solidarity

The Communication Workers issued a strong statement on Sept. 9 expressing solidarity with the Indigenous peoples’ resistance to pipeline construction…

October 2, 2016

Boston union aids Standing Rock, Charlotte resistance

On Sept. 22, the Boston School Bus Drivers Union, Steelworkers Local 8751 held its first membership meeting since the start…

September 26, 2016

Film Review: ‘Accidental Activists’ fight for same-sex marriage, adoption rights

During their long struggle for justice — which culminated in the 2015 Supreme Court decision giving same-sex couples the right…

September 11, 2016

Hungry for knowledge? The library is open!

The Detroit storefront office of Workers World Party, in Midtown near Wayne State University, is an anchor to the struggle…

September 11, 2016

Capitalism threatens autoworkers’ jobs

“Constant revolutionizing of production,” Karl Marx and Frederick Engels wrote in 1848, “uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty…

August 26, 2016

Detroit bus drivers’ union protests ‘transit racism’

Detroit bus drivers, represented by Amalgamated Transit Union Local 26, held a press conference on Aug. 17 to announce the…

August 24, 2016

Honeywell ‘took on the wrong union local’

Honeywell locked out 317 members of United Auto Workers Local 9 in South Bend, Ind., and 42 members of Local…

August 1, 2016