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The COVID-19 pandemic: a historic event that will intensify global working-class struggle

Below is an article first posted online on April 24 by Tom Soto, who died on May 31. Comrade Soto…

June 3, 2020

Striking packinghouse workers win signed agreements for safety

Seattle Immigrant workers, on strike against Washington state fruit packinghouses since May 7, won another victory on May 28. The…

June 1, 2020

EDITORIAL: En una grave crisis económica, lecciones de los más oprimidos

Estados Unidos se encuentra en una crisis económica histórica y aplastante, acelerada por la pandemia de COVID-19. Si bien la…

June 1, 2020

Fight budget cuts in cities

Philadelphia Dozens of Philadelphia city workers wearing masks, standing on chalked X marks 6 feet apart, chanted, “Kenney’s cuts hurt”…

May 29, 2020

Packinghouse workers strike vs. bosses & COVID-19

Seattle May 24 — Strikes broke out May 7 in several apple packinghouses and continue in Washington state’s Yakima Valley.…

May 28, 2020

In dire economic crisis, lessons from the most oppressed

The U.S. is in a historic, crushing economic crisis, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. While the Bureau of Labor Statistics…

May 27, 2020

Part 3: Ecuador’s people speak out

Ibarra, Ecuador Parts 1 and 2 are available on workers.org. Workers World spoke with Pedro de la Cruz, an Indigenous…

May 27, 2020

Pandemics have a way of fomenting social revolutions

The following is a slightly edited talk given during the Workers World Party webinar “What Road to Socialism?” on May…

May 25, 2020

Safe Jobs Save Lives’: N.C. union rallies to free prisoners, support city workers

Union workers and community members organized a car caravan protest in front of Neuse Correctional Institute in Goldsboro, N.C., on…

May 25, 2020

Racist, sexist, job-killing, union-busting robber baron appointed to head USPS

An earlier version of this article appeared in Labor Notes May 15. The Trump administration, COVID-19 and U.S. Senate reluctance…

May 25, 2020