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Columbia Grad Students On Strike for a Living Wage
Graduate student workers at Columbia University walked off the job yesterday, demanding pay raises and improved health care. Read our report from the picket line.
Olivia Wood
March 16, 2021Biden’s Stimulus: A Real Anti-Poverty Bill or Just Capitalism Trying to Hold On?
Joe Biden and the Democrats have passed one of the largest spending bills in history. Many are hailing this as the anti-poverty bill of our generation, but the truth is more complicated.
Sybil Davis
March 13, 2021Columbia Graduate Workers Set to Strike on Monday
After four years of organizing and two years of contract negotiations, Columbia graduate workers are poised to strike yet again to win their first contract.
James Dennis Hoff
March 12, 2021New Haven Bus Drivers Stage Sickout to Demand Vaccines
Despite interacting with hundreds of people each day, New Haven bus drivers have not been prioritized to get vaccinated. This week, workers organized a wildcat sickout to protest vaccine distribution.
Maria Aurelio
March 12, 2021The Democratic Supermajority Won’t Save New Yorkers
The current state legislature in New York State is being heralded as “historically progressive,” and many unions and community organizations have high hopes for what they may be able to achieve in Albany. Organizing for direct change, using our strategic positions as workers, has the potential to be much faster and more effective than lobbying politicians.
Olivia Wood
March 11, 2021“Arkansas Essentially Made Abortion Illegal”: An Interview with an Abortion Nurse
Left Voice spoke with Angelique Miste Saavedra, a reproductive justice activist who worked for over two years as a nurse at an abortion clinic.
Angelique Miste Saavedra
March 10, 2021International Women’s Day is About Class Struggle. Down with Liberal Feminism
Kyrsten Sinema's recent actions highlight why liberal feminism belongs in the dustbin of history. This International Women's Day, fight for a feminist movement that is working class, socialist and internatinalist.
Maria Aurelio
March 8, 2021The Struggle Against Racism is International
The following speech was delivered by Carmin Maffea at the “Black Socialists on BLM, Class Struggle, and Revolution” online panel held February 27, 2021
Carmin Maffea
March 6, 2021“Right-to-Work” Laws Are an Assault on Union Organizing
The closed shop is a powerful weapon of the working class. This week, legislatures in Montana and Colorado defeated efforts to turn their states into anti-union right-to-work states like Alabama, where Amazon workers in Bessemer are fighting to form a union.
Scott Cooper
March 4, 2021Black Socialists Speak on BLM, Democratic Party Co-Optation and the Fight for Revolution
On Saturday evening, nearly 200 people gathered on Zoom for a Black History Month panel hosted by Left Voice to discuss the Black Lives Matter uprisings, the recent breaks within the Black Lives Matter Global Network (BLMGN), and the fight for socialism and Black Liberation.
Left Voice
March 3, 2021