Workers unite!

Will changes in AFL-CIO aid workers’ struggles?

Taken from a speech by Workers World Party First Secretary Larry Holmes to a WWP forum in New York City…

September 5, 2013

With one-day strike for $15 an hour, fast-food workers shut it down!

Fast-food workers turned off the grills, closed the cash registers and walked off their jobs on Aug. 29 to demand…

September 5, 2013

On the picket line

Walmart warehouse workers win raises, benefits After an unrelenting two-year struggle, the 75 workers at the Walmart warehouse in Mira…

September 5, 2013

Workers’ strikes span Africa

While developments in Egypt in the aftermath of the military coup and massacres of Muslim Brotherhood supporters have dominated the…

August 29, 2013

On the picket line

Global youth jobless crisis A report released May 8 by the International Labor Organization stated that 73.4 million young workers…

August 25, 2013

Philadelphia schools end teacher seniority

By Betsey Piette and Scott Williams Philadelphia With less than 24 hours notice to the public, on Aug. 15 the…

August 22, 2013
Victory in keeping community hospitals in Brooklyn, N.Y., openVictory in keeping community hospitals in Brooklyn, N.Y., open

Victory in keeping community hospitals in Brooklyn, N.Y., open

Responding to the pressure of a fairly militant coalition of unions — the New York State Nurses Association and SEIU1199…

August 20, 2013

Class struggle versus class collaboration

The analysis below is based on a talk to the Aug. 8 New York branch meeting of Workers World Party…

August 18, 2013
Workers try to save hospitalWorkers try to save hospital

Workers try to save hospital

Hospital workers held a militant all-night vigil on Aug. 11 outside Interfaith Medical Center in Brooklyn. The hospital — vital…

August 14, 2013

Save the people’s post office

Without question, the big-business class — and their agents in the U.S. Postal Service headquarters, the executive branch and Congress…

August 12, 2013