This report was given by Eric London to the Seventh Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) in support of the resolution titled “Build the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees! For a global counteroffensive of the working class!”
Labor Day 2022 presents the working class with two choices. One is with the AFL-CIO and the Biden administration, and the other is through the development of an independent movement of the working class.
This is the report delivered by Eric London to the 2022 International May Day Online Rally held on May 1. London is a writer for the WSWS and a leading member of the Socialist Equality Party (US).
Europe’s working class is facing the greatest assault on its standard of living in a century, when postwar inflation and the aftermath of the 1929 stock market crash destroyed the livelihoods of large segments of the working and middle classes.
We are building a network of rank-and-file committees of workers in key industries and workplaces to stop the spread of COVID-19 and save lives, and prepare for a political general strike.
Drivers were scathing of the deal and spoke angrily of Unite’s collusion with the bus operators.
With the unions, it is not a question of whether they will betray but how. The critical question is: How will workers respond?
This letter was sent by the Berlin Transport Workers Action Committee to the Railroad Workers Rank-and-File Committee in the United States which is organising workers in opposition to the White House-brokered sellout contract announced last week to block a national strike.
This school year, educators must combine the developing struggle for wages and benefits with the fight for the necessary public health measures to stop the pandemic and save lives.
A pipefitter who worked at the BP Huskey refinery spoke about unsafe practices by management that could have contributed to the September 20 fire that killed Max and Ben Morrissey.
The memorial service Thursday morning was an outpouring of sympathy and solidarity for Max and Ben Morrissey, two young workers tragically killed at the BP Husky refinery in Oregon, Ohio.
This week the grieving families and friends of Ben and Max Morrissey will bury the two brothers, who died in the September 20 fire at the BP-Husky oil refinery in Oregon, Ohio.
There are many questions that must be investigated regarding the September 20 fire that killed Ben and Max Morrissey last Tuesday at the BP Husky refinery in Oregon, Ohio.
The UAW apparatus has done everything it can to prevent workers from knowing about the election or understanding the positions of the candidates.
At the factory meeting on Wednesday, the works council and IG Metall union, supported by Saarland’s Minister President Anke Rehlinger (Social Democrats, SPD), will do everything they can to seal the plant’s closure.
Stellantis’ Chief Manufacturing Officer Arnaud Debouef threatened the jobs of 5,200 workers during a visit to the Warren Truck Assembly Plant in suburban Detroit Tuesday.
Amid ongoing contract struggles among university employees in California and New York, UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman held a meeting last Saturday to discuss the conditions facing academic workers.
"We are starting to see cross-supporting, like doctors supporting nurses on strike, or teachers supporting nurses. Workers have a common enemy in the government and the corporations."
Thousands of nurses in public hospitals are refusing extra shifts this week after the government slashed overtime pay, but the union has refused to call a strike.
More than half of the over 500 union nurses polled at Jersey Shore University Medical Center said they wouldn’t feel safe being treated at the facility.
The Berlin Children’s Hospitals Initiative has sent a second “open letter” drawing attention to the devastating situation at children’s hospitals and child emergency centres in the capital.
The Los Angeles Educators Rank-and-File Committee urges teachers to organize a mass assembly of educators and support workers to discuss and elaborate demands that make up for years of cuts in real wages.
The NTEU’s false claims of an “historic win” at Western Sydney University were further exposed at a sparsely-attended union meeting last week at the college, where union officials sought to push through an even worse enterprise agreement.
The Chefs in Schools charity reports a “heart-breaking” increase in hungry children, with school chefs “actively going out and finding the kids who are hiding in the playground because they don’t think they can get a meal and feeding them.”
“I think a collective unified struggle of university staff across the country would be a lot more effective than what we are doing now.”
What should rail workers make of the rapturous response by RMT leader Mick Lynch and ASLEF leader Mick Whelan to Liz Truss’s new transport secretary?
According to multiple workers who belong to the IBEW and who personally spoke to IBEW Railroad Department head Al Russo via telephone in recent days, the IBEW has acknowledged that a significant number of ballots were not properly sent to workers.
The airport’s closure is a devastating blow to the region and will impact thousands of workers in the run-up to Christmas.
Drivers were scathing of the deal and spoke angrily of Unite’s collusion with the bus operators.
Management took the vindictive action after around 100 workers at the facility staged a protest in a management office and demanded to be sent home with pay because of unsafe conditions.
Wading into the debate that followed the death of Queen Elizabeth was none other than the founder of the company where I work, mega-billionaire Jeff Bezos, who rushed to the queen’s defense.
Josh was fired in mid-September by Amazon for attempting to assert his rights as a worker.
The Amazon worker writes, “Why are warehouses so unbearably hot at Amazon and at other warehouses and workplaces across the country and around the world? The answer is capitalism.”
As with the long list of previous mine disasters and deaths in this region, no company, no government agency, no trade union, has been held accountable.
The Labour Party government’s promises to “be upfront” and “empower” the survivors of catastrophic events are a fraud, as the experience of the Pike River victims’ families makes clear.
The National Labor Relations Board ruled on July 22 that the UMWA is responsible for $13.3 million in security costs and loss of profit at Warrior Met over the course of its year-long strike in Brookwood, Alabama.
The $75,000 fine issued to the Rio Tinto subsidiary is a stark demonstration of the class “justice” meted out by the Australian legal system with regard to workplace safety.
Striking London United bus strikers spoke to WSWS reports during their strike this weekend.
Last May, the union pushed through a 2.25 percent increase for a two-year agreement up to December 2021. Shepherds Bush was one of three garages that voted the deal down.
A driver from Norwood told WSWS, “It’s a really difficult time. Mortgages are going up and we have to work overtime to make ends meet. Without overtime you can’t survive.”
By Unite’s own admission, it has presided over four years of below-inflation pay deals. It now wants to impose another one.
The ICFI and its affiliated Socialist Equality Parties are advancing this initiative to begin and develop a global counteroffensive of the working class against the homicidal policies of the governments controlled by the capitalist ruling class, which are responsible for the worldwide catastrophe.
This resolution was adopted unanimously by the membership of the Socialist Equality Party in the United States at its Sixth National Congress, which was held online from July 19 to July 24, 2020.
The characteristic of every great crisis is that it lays bare the contradictions that have accumulated and been suppressed for decades. All that is backward, anachronistic, corrupt, and, in the most profoundly objective sense, absurd and even irrational in the economic organization, social structure, political leadership and dominant ideology of the existing society is brutally and comprehensively exposed. The pandemic is such a crisis.
This lecture by David North examines the causes for the betrayals of the trade unions in their hostility to the class struggle and socialism, and reviews the historical conflict between the trade unions and revolutionary Marxism. It was re-published in the 2014 book, The Russian Revolution and the Unfinished 20th Century.
