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Can the UAW Strike Become Labor’s Next Giant Step?

September 24, 2023
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Labor Struggles, Strike, Trade Unions, UNITED STATES
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In the aftermath of COVID, labor has been trying to catch up. Not only from the runaway inflation and interest rates but from the givebacks, wage freezes, lockouts and furloughs suffered in the 2008-2011 global economic crisis. The crash was used to enforce austerities on workers around the globe. The Obama/Gettlefinger deal bailed out…

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FOR A GENERAL STRIKE TO DEFEAT SLAVE WAGES AND AUSTERITY

February 13, 2022
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Africa, INTERNATIONAL, Labor Struggles, Uncategorized, Zimbabwe
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The following is reprinted from our comrades of the Revolutionary Workers Group of Zimbabwe (Section of the International Leninist Trotskyist Tendency-ILTT): Teachers in Zimbabwe have started a process that can result in a historic win against the government and the bourgeoisie. It is crucial that other workers join now. The coming week will be crucial…

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Defend 5,000 Striking South African Clover Workers!

January 24, 2022
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Africa, INTERNATIONAL, International Labor Defense, Internationalism, Labor Defender, Labor Struggles, South Africa, UNITED STATES
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The United Front Committee For A Labor Party UFCLP (https://www.facebook.com/masslaborpartyusa) is initiating United Front demonstrations in solidarity with the South African Clover workers. We print below the CWG-USA’s statement followed by the UFCLP’s United Front call…… The Communist Workers Group USA, the US section of the International Leninist Trotskyist Tendency (ILTT), expresses solidarity with the…

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Victory to the Kaiser Local 39 Strike!

November 13, 2021
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Healthcare, Labor Struggles, Uncategorized, UNITED STATES
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Kaiser Oakland September 27, photo by CWG As we go to press, Kaiser has reached a tentative agreement (still to be ratified by the membership) with several unions, however Local 39, the engineers, are still fighting. “Kaiser Permanente has averted strikes in Southern California, Oregon and Hawaii after reaching a tentative four-year contract with 50,000…

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Bolivian Workers Strike: U.S. Workers, Their Fight is Our Fight!

August 8, 2020
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Bolivia, INTERNATIONAL, Labor Struggles, Strike
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Under the devastation of the pandemic and the global economic crisis, the Bolivian Workers’ Center (COB), the main Bolivian trade union federation, called for an indefinite general strike on July 28th. After many months of repression and resistance the working masses are breaking from the Bolivarian Movement for Socialism (MAS) and forced the COB leadership…

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Zimbabwe: Hands Off Nurses!

July 14, 2020
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INTERNATIONAL, Labor Struggles, Zimbabwe
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The following is reprinted from our comrades of the Revolutionary Workers Group of Zimbabwe (Section of the International Leninist Trotskyist Tendency-ILTT): HANDS OFF NURSES! SALUTE TO THE HEROIC AND PATHBREAKING HEALTH WORKERS! FORWARD TO AN ALL OUT PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTOR GENERAL STRIKE! VICTORY TO THE WORKING CLASS! As we speak nurses, doctors and other…

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ZIMBABWE: STAND IN SOLIDARITY WITH WORKERS UNDER ATTACK

June 26, 2020
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Africa, INTERNATIONAL, Labor Struggles, Strike, Zimbabwe
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The following is reprinted from our comrades of the Revolutionary Workers Group of Zimbabwe (RWG-Z): The RWG wishes to extend our most unflinching support to the workers of Zimbabwe for their resolve to re-ignite the struggle for a living wage. The past days we have seen the Health workers bravely expressing their disgust with the…

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Class struggle in the time of COVID-19 and the 2020 election cycle!

May 1, 2020
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COVID-19, General Strike, Labor Struggles, MAY DAY, revolution, socialism, Uncategorized, UNITED STATES
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May Day 2020 Class struggle in the time of COVID-19 and the 2020 election cycle! Drinking the “Re-Opening” Clorox vs stating our class’ historic objective. For reformism we are facing an election. For the proletariat we are facing a Depression. Bloomberg’s Noah Smith knows this. One in five are now unemployed. Prisons and nursing homes…

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Defend the Immigrant Refugee Workers and their Families

July 16, 2019
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Anarchism, ICE, Immigration, Immigration Rights, Labor Defense Guards, Labor Struggles, Trade Unions, Uncategorized, UNITED STATES
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Why Marxists Oppose Individual Terrorism Apparently frustrated by the lack of direct actions initiated by the power of the broader labor movement, Willem Van Spronsen took action against the ICE machine in the tradition of one of his heroes John Brown and his fate was the same. The response of the State is quicker than…

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ZIMBABWE: FOR A GENERAL STRIKE TO DEFEAT AUSTERITY AND DICTATORSHIP!

January 20, 2019
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Africa, Anti-Imperialist, Austerity, INTERNATIONAL, Labor Struggles, Permanent Revolution, South Africa, Southern Africa, Strike, Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe
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From Monday the 14th of January 2019 the post-Mugabe pro austerity Mnangagwa-Chiwenga junta government has been violently killing, arresting, maiming, injuring, victimising and torturing the ordinary poor masses, workers, activists and trade union leaders. It is estimated that as of now over a dozen people have been killed, nearly 400 injured and way above 600…

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