Workers unite!

<span class="streamer2">Naomi Osaka’s treatment raises question</span> <br />Are pro athletes exploited workers?

In the Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels describe the degrading character of work under capitalism, whereby workers “are…

June 8, 2021

Puerto Rican workers: No peace if energy is privatized

On June 1, the Financial Oversight and Management Board overseeing Puerto Rico’s economy privatized the island’s public power utilities by…

June 7, 2021

Workers need unions – Amazon offers ‘despair closets’

Just when it seemed impossible for Jeff Bezos and other Amazon bosses to be any more clueless and insensitive toward…

June 4, 2021

Massive response of Greek workers to attack on the eight-hour day

For the past month, Greek workers have been protesting the right-wing New Democracy government’s attempt to enshrine a 10-hour work…

June 4, 2021

Alabama miners’ strike: ‘We are Union!’

Centreville, Ala. May 31 — In Brookwood, Ala., the 1,100 miners of United Mine Workers (UMWA) Local 2245 are entering…

June 2, 2021

Masses battle rightist regimes in Colombia, Brazil, Chile

Ongoing struggles in three South American countries show the general uprising that began in 2019 is still challenging right-wing ruling…

June 2, 2021

Palestine’s relationship to class struggle worldwide

The excerpted remarks are from a May 27 webinar: “From Palestine to Alabama — The Revolutionary Transformation of the Working…

May 31, 2021

On the picketline

Labor solidarity with Palestine On May 18, a general strike of Palestinian workers was held to protest the killing of…

May 27, 2021

Colombia: Broad general strike challenges ‘narc-oligarchy’

May 23 — The general strike against anti-poor “reforms” in Colombia is finishing its fourth week. So far, every test…

May 25, 2021

McDonald’s workers go on strike to demand a livable wage!

The writer worked at McDonald’s from 2011-2012 and 2014.   Workers at McDonald’s in 15 cities across the country went…

May 25, 2021