Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
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[…]
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From Avante, Published on Workers World, November 24, 2022 I spent considerable effort looking for a larger photo of any of these events, and what I found was from earlier this fall. There is, of course, no censorship here, BUT, when I ran a search on “strike/protest, France/Brussels/Spain, November 2022” I got photos from 2014 and 2018; photos from Hong[…]
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by Arjae Red, published on Workers World, February 11, 2022 Seven Starbucks workers at the Poplar and Highland Starbucks in Memphis, Tennessee, were fired Feb. 8 in the most vicious and blatant act of union busting by the company so far. These firings accounted for approximately 35% of the total workforce in the store, according to the press statement released[…]
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by Malik Miah, published on Socialist Action, November 3, 2021 Thousands of workers are on strike right now in the United States, in what is being dubbed “Striketober”. In some cases, bosses are using “replacements” (scabs) to cross picket lines and keep the profits flowing. Strikers are fed up with poor working conditions, forced overtime, 16-hour shifts, low wages, and[…]
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Photo: Workers leaving the Detroit-Hamtramck plant before the elimination of the second shift in March 2017 by Jerry White, from the World Socialist Website, November 27, 2018 General Motors officials announced yesterday that the Detroit-based automaker will close five plants in the US and Canada in 2019 and another two, still unspecified, plants outside of North America. The elimination of[…]
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May Day Workers of the World Unite Melbourne Australia, 2012 ~Johan Fantenberg Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers of Popular Resistance Seventy years of attacks on the right to unionize have left the union movement representing only 10 percent of workers. The investor class has concentrated its power and uses its power in an abusive way, not only against unions but[…]
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