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Connecticut Hotel Workers Fight Corporate Reopening

Hotel workers across Connecticut are protesting the state's reopening measures, which endanger workers' health and livelihoods in the middle of the ongoing pandemic. Members of Local 217 Unite Here delivered a set of demands to the governor's office in Hartford this week to say they won't risk their lives to protect hotel owners' profits.

Ernie Gotta

June 18, 2020

The Pandemic and the Anti-Police Uprising Are Reshaping the Terrain of Class Struggle

A new period of class struggle is unfolding, marked by a shift to the left in the political situation, attempts to co-opt a disruptive anti-racist and anti-police movement, and two actors — the labor movement and the socialist left — that might come out of it much stronger if they rise to the occasion.

Juan Cruz Ferre

June 16, 2020

Expel the Enemy From Within: Cops Out of Our Unions and Hospitals

As clinical and nonclinical rank-and-file healthcare workers, we recognize that cops and their brutalism are endemic to the capitalist state. We demand that police are immediately expelled from our unions and healthcare settings.

No Pigs Allowed: Let’s Kick Cops Out of Our Unions

The call to remove police unions from labor confederations and working-class organizations is gaining renewed force as hundreds of thousands rise up against racist police brutality.

Juan Cruz Ferre

June 9, 2020

We Want Books, Not Cops: Teachers, Students and Community Members Mobilize Against Police Violence

Thousands of educators, students and community members mobilized on Saturday to demand that the NYPD get out of public schools.

Healthcare Workers: From “Heroes” to Targets of Police Repression

After months of being praised by NYC politicians as “heroes” in the “battle against Covid-19,” we as healthcare workers of NYC are now being attacked and arrested by the city for fighting against another deadly global pandemic: the police.

“They Are Cracking Down Like This Because They Are Scared of the Movement”: Doctor Arrested by NYPD Speaks Out

Left Voice editor, doctor, and street medic Mike Pappas was arrested for violating curfew on Thursday night while marching against police brutality. He made this video at 2am Friday morning after he was released.

Mike Pappas

June 6, 2020

Trabajadores de Salud: De “Héroes” a Blancos de la Represión Policíal

Después de elogios durantes meses, en los cuales los trabajadores de la salud fuimos alabades como “héroes” por los políticos de la Ciudad de Nueva York en la “batalla contra el COVID-19”, ahora nos atacan y nos encarcelan por parte de la ciudad por luchar contra otra pandemia mortal: la policía. 

Black Struggle is Class Struggle: Five Demands on Unions

In the ongoing uprising against racism and police brutality, unions can play a big role. But only if they are pushed to. Here are five proposals to bring labor into the Black struggle movement.

Ioan Georg

June 4, 2020