Class Struggle

On November 17th, after being on strike for 35 days across 14 facilities in Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Georgia and Colorado, 61% of the over 10,000 John Deere workers have voted to approve the third contract proposal. …

After defeating the laws that would have eliminated vital protections for Indian farmers, one of the protesters said the victory felt “like you’ve conquered Mount Everest.” …

30,000 Kaiser Permanente workers in Southern California and Oregon have voted to strike. …

On Tuesday, November 2nd, 10,000 John Deere workers in the United Auto Workers (UAW) union rejected a second tentative agreement to continue their strike which started on October 14. …

Like the mass demonstrations that ousted Sudan’s dictator two years ago, the people are refusing the military’s recent effort to determine their future. …

The contract may be signed but the fight is far from over! …

The past month has seen a strike wave in the United States. …

10,000 workers at John Deere went on strike against a bad contract. …

Workers at Kellogg’s are standing up to the bosses strikebreaking tactics. …

John Brown and his followers stand as an example of how working people of different skin colors and backgrounds can join together and take action against the oppressing ruling classes.  For that reason, we recognize John Brown’s raid as part of the long struggle to end oppression and create a just and equal world for all people.  …

Since September 16th, carpenters in Seattle have been on strike for better pay, benefits and working conditions while voting down four previous tentative agreements. …

Workers in France are striking against the privatization of the public transit system. …

The giant Chinese real estate company Evergrande is on the verge of bankruptcy, drowning in debt, which could have huge shockwaves around the world. …

Workers at Nabisco, the company that makes snacks like Oreos, Fig Newtons and Wheat Thins, have been on strike since August 10th. …

Transit workers in the Bay Area are fighting for hazard pay for working during the pandemic. …

Miners from the Warrior Met Coal Company in Alabama have been on strike since April 1. …

Eighty-six years ago, longshore workers all along the Pacific coast were on strike. …

Nurses at a hospital in Massachusetts are protesting unsafe practices in the longest strike in state history. …

On June 26th, 1894, members of the American Railway Union began a boycott in support …

On Memorial Day weekend, we remember the 1937 massacre of Chicago steelworkers. …

The UAW shut down a Volvo workers’ strike in Dublin, Virginia. …

Colombians have been protesting proposed tax reforms that would increase the tax rates of low-income people. …

Healthcare workers in Argentina are striking against worsening standards of living. …

May Day 2021: Celebrating the Struggles of the Past — Preparing Those of the Future …

This system throws people away and blames them in the process. It forces people to survive out of their cars in droves, scraping together pennies working back breaking jobs until they die. And the film Nomadland tells some of their stories. …

The disaster in Texas is just another reminder of what’s in store for us if we continue to leave our future in the hands of those who run a system guided by the drive for profits, regardless of the impact. Our future depends on our determination to come together and fight against this system – to fight for a world that represents all of our interests. …

The pressures of this period are building across the U.S. and around the world. But the capitalist system that is responsible for the crisis remains. This virus has united us in many ways. It has given us a picture of the future capitalism holds out to us. And it isn’t a future that we can accept. …

Nearly 1,400 workers at the Hunt’s Point Produce Market in the Bronx, New York City …

  The U.S. company Tyson Foods Inc., among the largest beef, pork and chicken producers …

Now, it will depend on workers to make sure guidelines are followed. …

On December 4, 1969, Fred Hampton was murdered by Chicago police after being surveilled and …

Since 1944, the United States and Mexico have shared water across their border, with the …

While a record number of small businesses are closing during the pandemic, Amazon’s package delivery …

International Revolutionary Convergence V.1, Aug. 2020 [this article has been translated from German] Germany is …

International Revolutionary Convergence V.1, Aug. 2020 [this article has been translated from French] Now that …

International Revolutionary Convergence V.1, Aug. 2020 [this article has been translated from French] In the …

International Revolutionary Convergence V.1, Aug. 2020 (written in April 2020) [this article has been translated …

On October 2, at least 288 Detroit bus drivers pulled a wildcat work stoppage, striking for safety under pandemic working conditions …

The links and connections made can be the fuel to energize the battles to come. …

The nurses won with a majority of 70 percent, but their fight is hardly over. …

One struggle we can learn from was the struggle of coal miners that led to the “Battle of Blair Mountain” almost a 100 years ago in West Virginia …

The inhumane conditions facing those locked in prisons across the U.S. today are not new …

Postal workers in Tacoma Washington defied their top management last week by reconnecting the sorting machines post office bosses had ordered shut down …

For months healthcare workers have been called “heroes.” But what we have also seen is an attack on the working conditions of these very same workers. …

On August 16, it was under this slogan that tens of thousands gathered in Minsk with flowers, balloons and flags …

The brutal murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis cops turned out to be the last straw for hundreds of thousands of people in the United States. …

This public health crisis has provided a rationale for employers to strengthen their hand against workers …

There have recently been a number of demonstrations led by healthcare workers …