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Class Struggle

Articles

Newsom: Washing His Hands of Our Needs

May 22, 2020

California governor Gavin Newsom released a revised budget for the state of California on May 14. Who are the targets of his spending cuts? Workers, high-needs students, the elderly …

Online Town Hall Videos

Videos of Townhall: COVID-19 – Global Pandemic & Climate Disruption With Mike Davis

May 21, 2020
Articles

Unemployment Purgatory for the Workers, Government Handout Heaven for the Bosses

May 21, 2020

36.5 million workers had filed for unemployment, but most are waiting to see the funds appear. The viral hashtag #PendingPurgatory explains what it’s been like for working people …

Frontlines

The Unemployment Paradox

May 20, 2020

Almost half of workers are making more on unemployment than they do in their regular jobs …

Articles

Cleaners Disinfecting NYC Subway Cars – No Health Benefits!

May 20, 2020

For the last few years the NYC subway system has cut back the number of unionized cleaning crews, and it shows. …

Frontlines

We Need Food and Shelter, But We Need the Arts, Too

May 19, 2020

Then comes COVID-19 and our delicately balanced lives as gig workers come tumbling down …

Articles

What is Bezos Doing to Take One Trillion Dollars?

May 19, 2020

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’s wealth – 138 billion dollars right now – is more than the GDP of over 130 countries across the globe. And it’s only getting bigger. …

Articles

Trump Says, “Planning for Future Pandemics,” but What About This One?

May 19, 2020

While visiting a medical supply distributor in Pennsylvania last week, Trump announced he is planning for future pandemics. …

Articles

Corporations Demand Immunity from Endangering Workers Exposed to Virus

May 18, 2020

For several weeks, Trump has been playing on the distress of millions of us who have lost our jobs to rev up support for re-opening businesses …

Articles

Georgia Reopening Will be a Cautionary Tale

May 18, 2020

As of April 24, the State of Georgia began the process of reopening at the direction of Republican Governor Brian Kemp. …

In Brief

France: Hospital Workers Say, “Medals for Our Service? No, Thank You!”

May 18, 2020

For months, hospital staff in France have been fighting for better pay. Then, during the crisis, they were sent to the front without ammunition: a lack of PPE …

Articles

Left Without Plumbing: Society’s Priorities Exposed

May 17, 2020

In the U.S. there are 470,000 dwellings with inadequate plumbing. Nearly a million homes lack complete and functioning kitchens. More than 4 million …

Articles

Elon Musk Re-opens Tesla Factory in Fremont

May 16, 2020

Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk went ahead and opened its Fremont, CA plant this Monday, in spite of the Public Health Department order for Alameda County …

Articles

Politicians Blame Workers for Spreading COVID-19

May 14, 2020

Blame is the name of the game, and with the coronavirus spreading rapidly through meat processing facilities, politicians are playing hard at blaming workers. …

Articles

Irish Extend Help to Navaho and Hopi – Repaying Kindness During Famine

May 12, 2020

Over two million dollars has been donated by people around the world to help Navajo and Hopi Native American communities get necessary supplies during the coronavirus pandemic. …

Articles

Striking Sanitation Workers Replaced by Prison Labor

May 12, 2020

Dozens of sanitation workers in New Orleans went on strike for COVID safety equipment last Wednesday, May 6. …

Articles

Iraq: Mass Protests Flare Again in Spite of COVID-19

May 12, 2020

Mass protests have broken out again in Iraq after the nomination of a new prime minister, Mustafa al-Kadhimi. …

Articles

Health Care: Laying off Millions during a Pandemic

May 11, 2020

We are living through one of the greatest health crises in world history. So why are so many U.S. health care workers out of work? …

Online Town Hall Videos

Videos from May Day 2020 Online Celebration

May 9, 2020

Part 1: Presentation Part 2: 2019 Uprisings Around the World and the COVID-19 Crisis Part …

Articles

COVID-19 Collapsed their Economy, but We’re the Ones Asked to Pay

May 9, 2020

Although Covid-19 sparked the current economic crisis, it is not the root cause. In late March and early April, experts projected a recession similar to the 2008 “great recession” was coming. …

Articles

Meatpacking Plants are COVID-19 Hotspots

May 8, 2020

In late April, President Trump ordered that meatpacking plants reopen after they were shut down because of COVID-19. He is more concerned about the companies’ profits than workers’ lives. …

Frontlines

A Time of Difficult Decisions

May 7, 2020

Report From a Childcare Worker: I had to turn them down to keep my family safe, a difficult decision …

Articles

New York Essential Workers on Night Shift – How Long is the Ride Home?

May 7, 2020

Starting May 6, New York City’s subway system is shuttered every night between 1 a.m. and 5 a.m. for cleaning and disinfecting during the pandemic. …

Articles

Amazon Vice President Grows a Conscience and Quits

May 6, 2020

On May 1, Tim Bray, Amazon’s Vice President for Web Services, resigned from his position at the company. …

Frontlines

BART – Safety is Up to the Workers

May 4, 2020

BART is operating as if it is business as usual, endangering the lives of workers and riders. …

Articles

Essential Workers Take Action on May Day

May 4, 2020

On May 1, International Workers’ Day, some workers at Amazon, Instacart, Walmart, Target, Whole Foods, and Shipt took action …

News videos

[VIDEO] 2019 Uprisings Around the World and the COVID-19 Crisis

May 3, 2020

Featured image credit: Faeez Safedien

Articles

Pension Cuts are on the Bosses’ Agenda

May 3, 2020

Senator Mitch McConnell announced a week ago that Congress wouldn’t provide any money to support state government employee pension funds. …

Articles

Lebanon: Massive Protests Continue Despite Pandemic

May 3, 2020

Huge, often violent, protests have rocked Lebanese cities in recent days. While the COVID-19 crisis may be a contributing factor, they are in fact a continuation of …

Articles

Wall Street has Best Month in Decades Amidst COVID-19 Pandemic

May 2, 2020

The same day it was announced that over 30 million people applied for unemployment benefits in the past six weeks, Wall Street announced it had its best month since 1987. …

Articles

May Day – Celebrate Workers’ Struggles!

May 1, 2020

The struggles of the international working class continue, and we draw our inspiration from them. …

Articles

Slaughterhouse Conditions – Lethal for Animals… and Workers

April 30, 2020

There has been a wave of COVID-19 infections in the meatpacking industry throughout the country. …

In Brief

Choosing Between Life and Work

April 27, 2020

On April 13th, Highland Hospital fired a nurse for wearing a trash bag as a gown. …

Articles

The Sanders Campaign: A Balance Sheet and the Way Forward

April 27, 2020

Sanders was right to say we need a movement, but channeling it into the Democratic Party is a dead end. …

Articles

Germany: Government and Bosses Use the Pandemic to Intensify Working Conditions

April 26, 2020

Since the outbreak of COVID-19, there have been many exceptions to the labor laws that have resulted in deteriorating working conditions for many. …

Articles

World’s Richest Man Gets Richer! (on the backs of workers risking their lives)

April 23, 2020

News reports confirm that Jeff Bezos, already far and away the world’s richest man, increased his wealth by $25 BILLION in only six weeks! How did he do this? …

Frontlines

New Nurse Limbo

April 23, 2020

Perhaps the pandemic can bring about new ways of training and educating healthcare workers. …

Articles

Reopening the Economy Will Send Us to Hell

April 23, 2020

this article is reprinted from Labor Notes As we head into the fifth month of …

Frontlines

No Excuses

April 20, 2020

Today, nurses reminded Kaiser admin that there are no excuses for their despicable behavior. …

Articles

Destroying Food While People Starve

April 16, 2020

3.7 million. That’s how many gallons of milk are being dumped each day by U.S. dairy farmers during the COVID-19 pandemic. …

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Videos of Townhall • COVID-19: Workers From the Frontlines

Videos from COVID-19 townhall …

Articles

Scientists – Take Action!

April 13, 2020

From a Biotech Student: This pandemic begs the question; what kind of world are we graduating into? …

Frontlines

The American Nightmare

April 13, 2020

From a Contract Worker: This crisis is demonstrating the precariousness of my situation. …

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Videos From Townhall • Workers’ Lives at Risk

Videos of presentations and discussion from April 4, 2020 townhall …

Frontlines

A Game of Pretend

April 8, 2020

From a Bay Area Biotech Worker: The measures that businesses take need to be more than just a facade. …

Frontlines

Hawai’i Residents Fight to Protect Their Communities in the Midst of COVID-19

April 7, 2020

As Covid-19 has spread to the pacific, so has resistance from its residents. …

Articles

Brazil – The Most Inefficient President in the World Risks Workers’ Lives

April 5, 2020

Bolsonaro and the Brazilian bosses don’t think they need to pay attention to what ordinary working people need. …

Articles

The Digital Divide

April 4, 2020

Self-isolation thanks to the coronavirus makes everyone much more dependent on the internet. But lots of families lack reliable access …

Articles

Food Deserts in a Pandemic

April 4, 2020

Residents of the Douglass Homes “affordable” housing community in Baltimore are organizing with supporters to get food during the coronavirus pandemic …

Articles

Pandemic Stimulus: The Priorities of Their System Laid Bare

April 3, 2020

The government has rushed in to the rescue – of banks and corporations …

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