January 29, 2014

Ross Mirkarimi: Shill for the Ruling Class

Fake leftist politician plays the family card like all the rest! Protecting the capitalists’ right to extract surplus value from workers requires not only underemployment, stagnating wages, cuts in social programs and pensions, overpriced housing and increased medical insurance rates.  Its protection results in an increasing gap between the rich and poor and thus requires…

Bankrupt IAM International Leadership Betrays Boeing Workers

Bankrupt IAM International Leadership Betrays Boeing Workers In yet another significant major defeat for organized labor, the top leadership of the International Association of Machinists (IAM) in secret negotiations with Boeing, reopened the contract and shoved through a vote of the membership to accept devastating concessions.  Devastating not only for the Boeing workers but for…

Defend South Korean Rail workers!

Hands Off Korean Workers! For International Labor Actions to Defend South Korean Rail workers!   The 22-day Korean KORAIL railway strike by more than 8,000 workers of the Korean Railway Workers Union (KRWU) and the Korean Public Services and Transportation Worker’s Unions (KPTU, a federation of unions) against privatization of the state-run service ended on…

Israel: Release All Palestinians Political Prisoners!

by Yossi Schwartz, Internationalist Socialist League (RCIT-Section in Israel/Occupied Palestine), 3.1.2014,  Reposted from:  www.thecommunists.net and www.the-isleague.com    This week Israel released 26 long-term Palestinian prisoners, the third group of four that she has been forced to release under American pressure. Most of the 26 were imprisoned for more than 20 years. Their release is part of an American-brokered…