Labor

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…

Community fight back against police killings

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7itqmo0sT58] http://ibvallejo.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1631&Itemid=1 A multi racial labor community rally in Vallejo, CA demands justice for Mario Romero shot in cold bood sitting in his own car in front of his own house. City officials can’t face the people. They run and hide. Protesters chanted, “They shoot us down, We Shut them down!”

AFTER MICHIGAN: A PROPOSED PATH FORWARD FOR THE LABOR MOVEMENT

AFTER MICHIGAN: A PROPOSED PATH FORWARD FOR THE LABOR MOVEMENT. Mass demonstrations to smash anti-labor laws are not enough.  Labor needs to unite labor in political strikes across the country to defend rights to organize, to collective bargaining, to defeat anti-labor restrictions on solidarity strikes.  Labors victory will not be won by demonstrations called by “friendly-Democrats”…

HANDS OFF OCCUPY ACTIVISTS: Drop charges on the ACAC 19

Fax/Call in Day Week of 12/17/2012.   Recently San Francisco Superior Court Judge Andrew Y.S. Cheng denied demurrers for all but one defendant of the ACAC 19 signaling that the case will most likely go to trial in the coming months. This week we are asking all supporters to fax and call San Francisco District…