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A Day On the UAW Picket Line: Morale High, Solidarity Strong
By E. Kilic, originally published on the National Writers Union Website. Last Saturday, we hit the road, which stretched out into Appalachia, determined to visit striking GM workers at the Philadelphia Parts Distribution Center. A Turkish friend, Çağatay Öncü, asked to come along. We were nervous because our car has had mechanical problems. We didn’t…
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Strike Against GM Intensifies At Home And Abroad
Since going on strike two weeks ago, the UAW workers of GM are showing a courageous example to workers across the United States and the world. The struggle has shown and exemplified a great variance of topics and principles. The solidarity amongst union workers has given a great example for an America so divided. Members…
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UAW Strike Pushes Unionization Struggle Forward
On Sunday, Sep.15, The United Autoworkers took up the mantle of class once again and authorized a strike against General Motors with the ending of their contract the previous night before. On Monday, Sep.16, the strike began with a force unseen in decades in the US. The UAW is not standing alone. As of…
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Comrade Tufail Abbas Has Died
Legendary Pakistani communist, and President of the Pakistan Mazdoor Mahaz (“Pakistan Workers Front”) Comrade Tufail Abbas, died Sunday, September 8, at the age of 92. One of the earliest members of the Communist Party of Pakistan, Comrade Abbas’ life was synonymous with the Pakistani communist movement. A distinguished and militant trade unionist, Comrades Abbas gained…
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This Labor Day, Celebrate the History and Promise of the American Labor Movement
In the United States, those of us who are leftist workers have a vexed relationship with this labor day, the first Monday in September. The day was a refuge for the American state and compromising union leadership from the May Day riots, namely Haymarket, and has since then become a state-recognized and confined day off…
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Steel Workers Victimized by Capitalist Overproduction, Not Simply Trump’s Failed Protectionism
Last fall, U.S. Steelworkers saw victory in their fight for better pay and conditions. In recent weeks, U.S. Steelworkers have faced several destructive blows, leading to the announcement by U.S. Steel that they would layoff about 200 workers. The reason for these lay-offs are the reasons for the constant misery of working people in the United States…
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Workers Communist Party of Denmark: US Imperialism Out of Greenland!
It made the headlines when the US government called off its official state visit to Denmark on the 2nd and 3rd of September. And even more because of the reason given – that US imperialism could not and cannot simply buy Greenland at a fixed price, as the US president and the White House wished.…
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US Financed Dictatorships in South America Killed Thousands
by Rafael Freire Originally published in Averdade (July 2019) Translated by Red Star Publications “In 1964, Che Guevara showed me, in his office in Havana, that Batista’s Cuba was not merely sugar: the Imperium’s blind fury against the revolution was better explained, he thought, by Cuba’s big deposits of nickel and manganese.” In this short…
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Latest Attack On Transgender Workers Is An Attack On All
It is no secret that the Trump Administration is one of a great reaction that preys on the most vulnerable of our society. The marginalization of people leading to the furthering division of the working class, the majority of the American population, has become the Trump Government’s bread and butter. This week, the Administration continued…
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Revolutionary Communist Party of Bolivia: The Bolivian Peoples are Standing Up in the Fight Against Populism, Authoritarianism, and Repression
Presentation of the Revolutionary Communist Party of Bolivia at the XXIII International Seminar: Problems of the Revolution in Latin America, Quito, July 2019. Translation by Red Star Publications. “If you give away the country / and talk about sovereignty / who will doubt that you are / sovereign crap / do not waste words on…
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