Labor

All Workers Militant Front, Closing Statement PAME Conference

November 14, 2024 UNAC Editor Action!!, Conferences, Europe, Greece, Labor Struggles, Marxism, Paths to Emancipation, Socio-Economic Struggles

published on Labor Today, November 2024

The WFTU on The Passing of One Year of Genocide

October 10, 2024 UNAC Editor Anti-Imperialism, Labor, Palestine, Trade

Statement by Central WFTU (World Federation of Trade Unions), published on Labor Today International, October 7, 2024 It has been a year since the beginning of the genocide against our brothers and sister in Palestine, more than 42 thousand people have lost their lives with the number being on the rise day by day. All efforts for a ceasefire are[…]

WFTU Statement on the 2024 NATO Summit

July 17, 2024 UNAC Editor Anti-Imperialism, Anti-War, Labor, NATO, Statement

by World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU), published in Labor Today International, July 6, 2024 The World Federation of Trade Unions, representing more than 105 million workers who work live, and struggle in 133 countries all over the world, strongly condemns the continuation of military interventions and wars, the accelerated militarization of international relations and confrontational rhetoric, the soaring of[…]

UAW Rank and File Demand their Union Divest from Genocide

June 2, 2024 UNAC Editor Action!!, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Labor, Palestine

published on Workers World, May 25, 2024 (UAW Labor for Palestine (UAW L4P) issued the statement below on May 10) United Auto Workers leadership must stop crossing the Palestinian trade union picket line and immediately divest from Israeli genocide! UAW Labor for Palestine has learned that the International Executive Board of the United Auto Workers [at its meeting held April[…]

Argentina: Milei’s War on Workers Met with General Strike

January 31, 2024 UNAC Editor Argentina, Austerity, Economic Collapse, Labor, Labor Struggles

By Adam Wetzstein, posted on Workers World, January 26, 2024 I see this as a warning to us. [jb] After decades of rapid inflation and economic crisis, Argentine voters last November elected economics professor Javier Milei as president. However, many consider Milei an Argentine variant of his pro-fascist Brazilian neighbor, former President João Bolsonaro, or even of Donald Trump. His[…]

U.S. Labor March for Palestine

December 27, 2023 UNAC Editor Action!!, Labor, Protest

by Labor Today International, December 22, 2023 On Thursday evening 12/21/2023 2- 3,000 people rallied in New York City for a ceasefire in Palestine. LTI was there! What follows is the publicity for that march. We will bring you more information as it becomes available. Solidarity forever! Joseph F. Hancock, Editor Abdel Honorio García, Assistant Editor and Treasurer Dr. Frank[…]

Organized Labour In an Imperial Warzone

December 25, 2023 UNAC Editor Fascism, Imperialism, Labor, Ukraine

Speech given by Ken Stone at a Rally outside the Ontario Federation of Labour Conference, November 22, 2023 Brothers and Sisters, I wish to thank the Toronto Coalition Against NATO for inviting me to speak on this occasion. Organized labour has an important role to play in the political discourse in Ontario and Canada and we wish the Ontario Federation[…]

Southern Human Rights Organizing and the Amazon Workers Struggle

December 25, 2023 UNAC Editor Labor, The War at Home

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, December 20, 2023 Jennifer Bates is an organizer with the BAmazon Union , the effort to organize Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama. BAmazon Union is affiliated with the Retail, Wholesale & Department Store Union (RWDSU). I spoke to Ms. Bates at the Southern Human Rights Organizers Conference (SHROC) which was recently[…]

Largest Union Calls for Ceasefire in Gaza

December 16, 2023 UNAC Editor Israel, Israel-Palestine, Labor, Palestine, Protest, The War at Home

by Rose Lemlich, published on Left Voice, December 2, 2023 The UAW International union has joined calls for a ceasefire and is exploring how to divest from Israel. This is a step which should inspire union activists to take up the fight to bring their union into the fight against Israel’s attack on Gaza and the struggle against imperialism. At[…]

On the Situation We Face

September 15, 2023 UNAC Editor Capitalism, Economics, Labor, Socialism, The War at Home

by Neal Resnikoff, September 2023 A Labor Day for picnics and entertainment was established by the ruling class in the U.S. to try to divert the workers from their revolutionary May First International Working Class Day traditions. Still, I think, the wake of this day is a good time to consider the conditions we face and how to move forward[…]