Labor Movement

Time to Take Back Our Universities: Temple University Fights for a Fair Contract
Temple University faculty, students and staff members made their voices heard for higher wages and better working conditions, in defense of education.
Sonja Krieger
May 4, 2017B&H Workers Go On Strike
Workers of the B&H warehouse went on a wildcat strike on May Day to protest the company's threat to move warehouses to New Jersey in order to break up the workers' organization and bust the union.
Left Voice
May 2, 2017May Day in NYC
Thousands marched through the streets of New York on May Day to fight for workers' rights.
Left Voice
May 2, 2017The Largest Brazilian General Strike in Decades
Make the capitalists pay for the crisis! The largest Brazilian general strike in decades is going on now!
Left Voice
April 28, 2017Zanon: Under Worker Control Since 2001
Interview with Raúl Godoy, Zanon worker and national leader of the PTS. Godoy was the first General Secretary of the Sindicato de Obreros y Empleados Ceramistas de Neuquén (SOECN - Ceramic Workers’ Union of Neuquén) after the union was reclaimed from the bureaucracy. This interview occurred at the time of the ten year anniversary of the occupation under workers’ control of the Zanon ceramics factory.
Raúl Godoy
April 11, 2017Dockworkers: the “can do” of the working class
What can the victory of the Spanish dockworkers teach us? That class struggle is the way to twist the arm of the government, the European Union (EU) and the way to make the capitalists pay for the crisis.
Santiago Lupe
April 11, 2017Lessons from the General Strike in Argentina
Reflections on last week’s general strike, the government’s policy of repression, the role of the Left in the strike, the union bureaucracy, and Cristina Kirchner’s silence on the repression.
Fernando Scolnik
April 9, 2017All Power to the Rank and File
A case for a workers' insurgency in New York City, and everywhere.
Ioan Georg
March 28, 2017AT&T Workers Fire Warning Shot Against the Company
Earlier this week, 17,000 AT&T workers in Nevada and California went on a one day strike against the company for unfair labor conditions.
Abby Nathanson
March 25, 2017Towards a General Strike? Massive Brazilian Work Stoppages on March 15
On the afternoon on March 15th, all major Brazilian cities were shaken by major protests against proposed cuts to retirement benefits and a loosening of labor regulations. The day began with workers from various sectors, namely transit workers and teachers, uniting in a massive work stoppage around the country.
Victor Mariutti
March 17, 2017