Labor Movement
The Socialist Podcast That Shares Workers’ Stories in Their Own Words
Working Class Heroes, a new socialist podcast from New York City, is dedicated to sharing the struggles of today's working-class heroes, with a first season dedicated to the struggles of taxi drivers. This is more than just a few lefties talking on a couch — it is deeply researched and well-produced radio. Left Voice spoke with Julian Guerrero, one of the producers.
Nathaniel Flakin
March 11, 2020South Korea’s Tollgate Workers’ Struggle: A Guiding Star for the Next Battle
As the valiant fight by South Korean tollgate workers comes to a close, a worker who joined solidarity efforts from day one reflects on the struggle’s peaks, limits, and lessons for the road ahead.
Yong Deok Lee
February 25, 2020Rank-and-File Rebellion at CUNY
The “$7K or Strike” demand aims to double the wages of exploited adjunct faculty. Such a radical demand requires radical action, but the union leadership is standing in the way.
James Dennis Hoff
February 23, 2020Squandered Power: The UAW and the GM Workers’ Strike
In order to win, the working class needs democratic unions, internationalism, and a leadership oriented towards class-struggle.
Thaddeus Greene
February 16, 2020UCSC Graduate Employees on Strike
For the second time in as many semesters, UCSC graduate employees have defied union bureaucrats, staging wildcat actions to fight for the demands that their union won't. Such radical actions have the potential to inspire other struggles across the university system.
James Dennis Hoff
February 11, 2020The Robin Hoods of France: Electrical Workers Cut Electricity to Sell-Out Union, Reconnect for Country’s Poor
In the past few months the electrical workers of France have taken up the mantle of Robin Hood by cutting power to the rich and reconnecting the poor. Most recently, on January 20, the power was disconnected to the headquarters of the French Democratic Confederation of Labor (CFDT) union, which has refused to call a strike and is working with French President Emmanuel Macron to legitimize his incredibly unpopular pension reform.
Juan Andrés Gallardo
January 28, 2020Union Density Is Down, but Class Struggle Is on the Rise
The Bureau of Labor Statistics released a report this week showing that union density is down in the United States for 2019. In light of the rise in combative labor struggles across industries over the last several years, what does this trend mean for the labor movement?
Ioan Georg
January 25, 2020France: The Strike Is Here to Stay!
Lawyers are throwing their robes at the feet of the Justice Minister. Workers in the Louvre shut down the world’s largest art museum. Firefighters are hosing down government buildings. The working class is in an uproar against Macron’s attacks on retirement benefits and they will not back down.
Madeleine Freeman
January 22, 2020Left Voice Special Edition: France’s Historic National Strike
Everything you need to know about the strike in France and the revolutionary socialist intervention.
Left Voice
January 22, 2020How Does the Revolutionary Left in France Intervene in the Strike?
With entire sectors of workers on strike in France, there is ample opportunity for the Left to intervene decisively in the struggle. The Revolutionary Communist Current (CCR) has used its influence in workplaces and its national coverage of the struggle to push for a generalization of the strike and to fight against the capitulations of the union bureaucracy.
Left Voice
January 22, 2020