Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!

WFTU Statement on the 2024 NATO Summit

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[…]

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UAW Rank and File Demand their Union Divest from Genocide

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[…]

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

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[…]

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U.S. Labor March for Palestine

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[…]

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Southern Human Rights Organizing and the Amazon Workers Struggle

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[…]

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Largest Union Calls for Ceasefire in Gaza

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[…]

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‘The Leading Class in the Philippine Revolution is the Proletariat’

By Phoebe De Padua, published on Workers World, August 9, 2023 This slightly edited talk was presented July 31 on the Workers World Party webinar titled “Lenin and the working class.” Go to youtube.com/watch?v=bNLB1b3tFKY to view the entire webinar.   Warm and militant greetings, comrades! I am very glad to be part of this important and relevant webinar presented by Workers[…]

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Chinese-American Worker and Activist Arrested for Advocating for Peace Between US and China

by Natalia Marques, published on People’s Dispatch, June 22, 2023 Labor leaders and organizers are banding together to demand justice for Chinese-American unionized worker and activist Li Tang “Henry” Liang. Liang was indicted and then arrested in early May in Boston in retaliation for exercising his free speech rights. “The federal government has targeted Liang for advocating peaceful relations between[…]

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