Written notes from the meeting, attended by CEO Jeff Bezos, detail Amazon’s strategy to fight union organizing, as well as efforts to obtain COVID-19 tests and protective masks for workers. …
On Monday, General Electric (GE) factory workers held demonstrations at two different plants, with the demand that the company use its aviation factories to produce ventilators. …
You would think that to fight the coronavirus, the government would pull together the best minds among relevant researchers and health care providers, decide what needs to get done, get industry to make the necessary supplies …
Instacart, a company that lets you order groceries online and have them delivered from your favorite stores, has seen a boom in business since the coronavirus has forced people to stay home. …
“I am angry and I am outraged” is the cry from the heart of a psychologist from Mulhouse hospital …
Amazon workers in New York at the Staten Island warehouse went on strike on Monday the 30th, demanding that Amazon shut down their shipping center to get it cleaned for Covid-19. …
Amazon confirmed to CNBC that it fired Chris Smalls, a warehouse worker who organized a strike at its Staten Island facility on Monday …
California’s roughly 400,000 agricultural workers are deemed essential, but often without proper safety measures or guaranteed benefits …
Workers around the country are walking off the job to protest a lack of protective equipment, safety measures, even soap …
Employees in New York facility say they have to ‘force company’s hand’ to act and accuse company of poor communication …
California has the worst housing crisis in the country—so bad that, when Governor Gavin Newsom took office, in 2019, he used his inaugural address to call for a “Marshall Plan for affordable housing,” …
The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed some of the inherent shortcomings of the capitalist economic system. The recent labeling of “essential employees” during quarantine highlights the indispensability of certain jobs …
European countries are paying to preserve jobs during the coronavirus crisis. Sadly for American workers, the United States is charting its own path. …
Around 100 workers at one of Northern Ireland’s main poultry manufacturers have walked out over concerns their employer has not taken proper steps to protect them from coronavirus. …
For the past couple of weeks, nurses at Kaiser Hospital have been caring for patients that came from the Grand Princess cruise ship and tested positive for coronavirus. Although there was time for the hospital to prepare before the ship docked, management implemented a training scheme only after the first confirmed cases of patients with Covid-19 arrived. …
Nurses at Kaiser Permanente hospitals and clinics in California could be fired immediately for wearing their own face masks, according to unions representing nurses at the facilities …
Italy is the Western European country where the coronavirus pandemic spread first and where its tragic effects are being felt the most. …
Fed up with unsanitary working conditions, bus operators in Detroit refused to drive the buses …
Employees say they are anxious about working in crowded stores with inadequate sanitation and lack of paid time off …
Truckers and warehouse workers at UPS and FedEx feel they have not choice but to keep showing up, even with coronavirus-like sypmtoms …
The divisions between the rich and poor are infuriatingly clear in 2020 …
Rideshare workers are calling for enforcement of California’s AB5 which would allow them at least three days of paid sick leave …
As the outbreak has hit America and the country has started to shut down, workers in many industries wonder: what now? …
Now isn’t the time to blindly follow orders from bosses. To make sure our response to coronavirus is safe and just, workers need to take on-the-job action like sick-outs and strikes — as New York City educators have over the past week. …
On February 29, the French government used an executive order to pass a widely-hated reform of the pension system, which is their equivalent of social security. …
Sanders promises his victory could solve many problems working people face. But this is a fantasy. …
Interviews with a rail worker and a high school teacher, both revolutionary activists with L’Étincelle, …
The Algerians say that it is not simply a question of changing one president for another, it is the regime itself that needs to be changed. …
Workers, students and other exploited and oppressed people are fighting back against those who rule …
On Saturday, tens of thousands of people demonstrated in thirty cities to protest violence against …
“In Lyon-II, we have students who go hungry:” the president of this university, Nathalie Dompnier, …
The population of Iraq flooded into the streets of Baghdad this October, calling for a …
From Algiers to Santiago, From Port-au-Prince to Hong Kong, and from Bayreuth to Panama, from …
With one million demonstrators in the streets of Santiago last Friday, the Chilean mass mobilisation …
On October 16th, a train accident in the Ardennes forest, at the Saint-Pierre-sur-Vence level crossing, …
Last Saturday in Paris, the government deployed its heavy artillery: 7,500 police officers were mobilised, …
The capitalist system has created an international crisis of displaced people due to a convergence of factors. …
Last Friday, Paris Public Transportation employees had the best response against the attack being prepared …
August 30, 2019; An updated article based on an August 19, 2019 L’Étincelle Editorial All …
Over 5,000 people demonstrated last Saturday in Belfort against the planned 1,000 layoffs at General …
The ballot boxes have just been put back into storage, and the government and the …
Algeria’s president, Bouteflika, announced he wouldn’t run for a fifth term… This clearly shows panic …
Despite the hundreds of thousands of demonstrators all over Algeria for two weeks, against Abdelaziz …
Revolutionary University, October 2018 We can go beyond resistance to the forces of capitalism …
Revolutionary University October 2018 France: “All Together! General strike!” This was was one of the …
There are certain years that are pivotal in history, when cataclysmic changes in consciousness take place and this paradigm shift spreads contagiously. …
Russian workers led the people of Russia in an effort to build a better world, and they reached out to help the rest of the international working class to do the same …
In 1871 the workers of Paris were “ready to storm heaven.” …
In 1941, tens of thousands of auto workers at the Ford River Rouge complex in Dearborn, Michigan, overcame many obstacles to build a union from the bottom up …
In 1912, in the city of Lawrence, Massachusetts, 25,000 workers went on strike. …
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