Labor

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

August 13, 2023 UNAC Editor Labor Struggles, Philippines

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[…]

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

June 26, 2023 UNAC Editor China, Labor, Protest, Racism, The War at Home, US Hypocrisy, War on the Poor

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[…]

May Day being commemorated in the U.S.

April 25, 2023 UNAC Editor Action!!, Immigrants, Labor, Labor Struggles

by Monica Moorhead, published on Workers World, April 24, 2023 A number of U.S. cities are gearing up for May Day (International Workers Day) 2023 with actions that highlight labor struggles, especially those involving young workers organizing at Starbucks and Amazon. But May Day is about much more than workers who are carrying out dynamic organizing campaigns. It encompasses the[…]

Mass French Strikes and Mobilizations Challenge Macron’s Pension Reform

April 3, 2023 UNAC Editor Democracy and Consent, France, Labor Struggles, Socio-Economic Struggles

By Jeff Mackler, published on Socialist Action, March 31, 2023 What the corporate media ban from their coverage of the unfolding and ever massive French protests against President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to add two years to the French retirement age, from 62 to 64, is the origin of the pension plan itself, perhaps the best in the world. This magnificent[…]

Germany: Warning Strike Turns Up the Steam

March 31, 2023 UNAC Editor Austerity, Europe, Germany, Labor, Labor Struggles, Protest

by Arnold Schölzel, published on Workers World, March 27, 2023 (Translation by John Catalinoto) A foretaste of the depth of the strike waves in France or Britain occurred in Germany on March 27: For 24 hours, buses and trains remained largely in depots, airplanes on the ground. Some 335,000 workers responded to the joint call by the United Services Trade[…]

Pension reform or Revolution! Crisis for the French Fifth Republic?

March 31, 2023 UNAC Editor Europe, France, Labor Struggles, Protest, Resistance

by Muhammad Shabeer, published by People’s Dispatch, March 29, 2023 When it bypassed Parliament and forced through pension system changes, Macron’s government exposed the anti-democratic deterioration in the Fifth Republic’s dual-executive system, writes Muhammed Shabeer. Major trade unions in France estimate that two million people hit the streets across France on Tuesday, March 28, denouncing the controversial pension reforms pushed by Emmanuel Macron’s[…]

Amid Ohio Nightmare, Rail Worker Alliance Urges All of Labor to Back Railroad Nationalization

March 2, 2023 UNAC Editor Labor, Socialism, War on the Poor

by Jake Johnson, published on Common Dreams, February 17, 2023 “The railroads, their CEOs, and the hedge fund robber barons will not listen, but railroad workers have the solution to managing and operating critical railroad infrastructure.” An alliance representing rail workers across the United States published an open letter late Thursday urging all of organized labor to support the nationalization[…]

A Sign of Capitalist Decline: Pink Slips Hit Tech Workers Hard

February 3, 2023 UNAC Editor Austerity, Labor, Labor Struggles, Migrants, War on the Poor

by Otis Grotewohl, published on Workers World, February 2, 2023 You can buy a paperback copy of this book on Amazon for $298.99, get a Kindle copy for $15.98 OR read it for free online here: https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/writers/marcy/hightech/index.html [jb] In a vulgar display of capitalist greed, indicative of the system’s state of decay, high tech companies have laid off more than 58,000[…]

Italian Dockers Say Genoa is Centre of Arms Trafficking Operation

February 2, 2023 UNAC Editor Anti-War, Italy, Labor, NATO

News from Labor Today,, January 28, 2023 DOCKERS in the Italian city of Genoa have warned of an arms trafficking operation being run through its port after the discovery of tanks and weapons in the hold of a Saudi Arabian ship. The Autonomous Port Workers Collective (Calp) published photographs of the deadly cargo on its website earlier this week. The[…]

Massive Strikes Hit France: More Than One Million People Join 200 Protest Marches

January 23, 2023 UNAC Editor Civil Resistance, Labor, Labor Struggles, Resistance

by Staff at Countercurrents, January 20, 2023 A massive strike has hit France on Thursday. Workers and other earners joined hands in protesting pension reform. Trade union sources said the number of people joining more than 200 protest marches was 2 million. Police had to use tear gas to contain the protesters in Paris. Teachers, railway workers and public sector[…]