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City University of New York Workers Announce Wildcat Sickout After NYPD Arrests Over 100 of Their Students and Colleagues
CUNY workers announced a wildcat sickout after NYPD raided City College's Gaza Solidarity Encampment. It's the first known job action in the PSC union’s 52-year history.
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May 1, 2024Unite the Encampments Against Repression and for a Free Palestine
Student encampments in solidarity with Gaza are cropping up across the country and are facing intense repression by police acting on behalf of university officials. Defending the occupations requires uniting outrage with these attacks on the right to protest with broad support for Palestine across the student movement and the labor movement.
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April 25, 2024Call for Submissions: Students, Staff, and Faculty Against the Genocide and Against the Repression of Pro-Palestine Movement
Are you a member of the student movement against the genocide in Gaza or a staff member/faculty supporter? We want to publish your thoughts and experiences.
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April 25, 2024Dispatches from Labor Notes: Labor Activists are Uniting for Palestine. Democrats Want to Divide Them
On the first day of the Labor Notes conference, conference attendees held a pro-Palestine rally that was repressed by the local police. As attendees were arrested outside, Chicago Mayor — and Top Chicago Cop — Brandon Johnson spoke inside.
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April 20, 2024Left Voice Magazine for April 2024 — Labor Notes Edition!
In this issue, we delve into the state and future of the labor movement today. We take a look at the prospects for Palestinian liberation through the lens of Leon Trotsky’s theory of Permanent Revolution, and discuss the way that Amazon has created new conditions of exploitation and how workers across the world are fighting back.
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April 20, 2024“We Shouldn’t Let this Stop Us”: Suspended Columbia Student Activist Speaks Out
Aidan Parisi, a student at Columbia University’s School of Social Work, was recently suspended and has been threatened with eviction from their graduate student housing for pro-Palestinian activism on campus. Aidan talked to Left Voice about the state of repression, the movement at Columbia, and the path forward for uniting the student movement with the labor movement and other movements against oppression.
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April 11, 2024‘You Have to Change Things from the Root’: Interview With a Young Immigrant
Left Voice interviewed a 23-year-old immigrant, factory worker, and student, who told us about his experience crossing the border from Mexico to the U.S. and about the life of Latin American youth in the United States.
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April 5, 2024Self Organization and the Mexican Student Strike
Left Voice member speaks about the massive 1999 Mexican student strike and the role of assemblies.
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March 30, 202448 Years After the Military Coup, Tens of Thousands in Argentina Take to the Streets Against Denialism and the Far Right
Tens of thousands of people took to the streets across Argentina on March 24 to demand justice for the victims of the state and the military dictatorship of 1976. This year, the annual march had renewed significance, defying the far-right government’s denialism and attacks against the working class and poor.
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March 25, 2024#AllThatsLeftPod: Two Years of War in Ukraine
On this episode of the podcast, we discuss the war in Ukraine after two years, and the continued need for an independent, working-class solution.
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February 24, 2024Fighting the Far Right with a General Strike: A Discussion with Revolutionary Socialists in Argentina
Left Voice spoke to leaders of Argentina's Party of Socialist Workers (PTS) about the January 24 general strike against far-right president Javier Milei, and the tasks for the Left.
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January 24, 2024Join Us: Left Voice Organizes Event and Mobilization as Part of the Global Solidarity with General Strike in Argentina
Javier Milei’s ultra-right, anti-worker and Zionist government in Argentina is advancing with its offensive but a general strike on January 24 is being organized to fight back. Left Voice along with other organizations of the Trotskyist Fraction around the world is organizing activities as part of the global solidarity with the struggle in Argentina.
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January 20, 2024#AllThatsLeftPod: Javier Milei, Argentina’s New, Far-Right President
In this episode of the podcast, we discuss Javier Milei's rise to power and what it means for the Argentinian and international Left.
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December 11, 2023#AllThatsLeftPod: What the Historic UAW Victory Means for the Working Class
In this episode of the podcast, we discuss the historic UAW victory, its shortcomings, and the tasks for the future.
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December 5, 2023#AllThatsLeftPod: A Brief History of Anti-Zionist Jews
In this episode, we interview writer and historian Nathaniel Flakin about the history of socialist, anti-Zionist Jews.
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November 16, 2023Left Voice Magazine for November 2023
This issue includes two articles for the centennial of the "German October" of 1923. We also write about the feminist uprising in Iran, the UAW strike, and left-wing debates on Hamas.
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November 14, 2023New York Healthcare Workers Demand an Immediate End to the Bombings in Gaza
Rank-and-File healthcare workers in New York City will rally and hold a vigil on November 3 in solidarity with Palestine. They are demanding an immediate end to Israel’s attacks on Gaza that have killed thousands of people, including healthcare workers and their patients, and cut off healthcare and emergency services.
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October 29, 2023New York City Says No to Zionism and Occupation
Outraged by Israel's gruesome and unrelenting attacks on Gaza, thousands of New Yorkers are marching across the Brooklyn Bridge in solidarity with Palestine.
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October 28, 2023End the US-backed Siege on Gaza! Stop Israel’s Airstrikes and Military Intervention Against the Palestinian People
The following Left Voice pamphlet was distributed at rallies and protests across the City University of New York today as part of a National Day of Action for Palestine.
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October 25, 2023International Statement in Support of the Left and Workers Front — Unity (FIT-U) in the Argentinian Elections
Hundreds of activists, intellectuals, trade union leaders, and political organizations from all over the world have signed this declaration in support of the Workers Left Front — Unity (FITU) in the Argentinian elections this Sunday.
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October 19, 2023Join the Left Voice-Detroit’s UAW Stand Up Strike Solidarity Committee
A victory for UAW is a victory for us all. Detroit community, come to our meeting this Tuesday, October 10th from 6pm to 8pm at the Purdy Kresge Library at Wayne State University, in the Simons Room to discuss the strike, help organize people and supplies to the picket, promote the strike, and talk politics.
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October 7, 2023Left Voice Magazine: Special Issue on Our Congress
In July, Left Voice held its first congress. As part of this special issue of our magazine, we are publishing two documents that formed the basis of the discussions, as well as an substantive and rousing greeting from Leticia Parks, a Black revolutionary socialist from Brazil. We also include an appeal for Climate Leninism, a debate with Tempest, and a talk about women’s liberation in revolutionary Russia.
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October 1, 2023Notes on the International Situation
A Convulsive New Phase of the Crisis of Neoliberalism — A Document for the Left Voice Congress
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October 1, 2023A Slow-Moving Crisis of the Empire
Notes on the National Situation – A Document for the Left Voice Congress
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October 1, 2023The 1973 Coup in Chile, 50 Years Later: Lessons of a Revolutionary Process
50 years ago today, a U.S.-backed military coup overthrew the government of Salvador Allende in Chile, installing the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. Here, we share a series of articles to think about the lessons from the defeat of one of the most profound revolutionary processes in Latin America.
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September 11, 2023#AllThatsLeftPod: Stalinism, Anti-Communism, and the Fate of the Soviet Union — An Interview with Doug Greene
In this episode, we interview author and historian Douglas Greene about his new book “Stalinism and the Dialectics of Saturn: Anticommunism, Marxism, and the Fate of the Soviet Union.”
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August 14, 2023A Call for Submissions: DSA at a Crossroads
As the DSA kicks off their convention, we're calling on DSA activists fighting for a "clean break" with the Democrats to submit contributions and open up debates on the path toward a class independent, socialist organization. Send us your thoughts during and after the convention at [email protected].
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August 4, 2023Left Voice Magazine for July 2023
We present the summer issue of our magazine, with an article about the uprisings in France, a document from the Trotskyist Fraction's recent conference, and a debate about Marxism and intersectionality. There are also two interviews with historians about Stalinism and about the Communist women's movement.
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July 11, 2023#AllThatsLeftPod: The UPS Contract Fight Heats Up — Interview with a Teamster
In this episode of the podcast, we check in on the impending UPS strike with Teamster member and Local 623 Principal Officer Richard Hooker.
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July 11, 2023#AllThatsLeftPod: How We Win the Fight for Trans Rights
In this episode of the podcast, we discuss both the right-wing and liberal attacks on trans rights, and the need for a movement and a working-class party with a socialist perspective to protect the oppressed.
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June 28, 2023