Inside Amazon: Exploitation and the Fight Against Capitalist Dystopia
A new book explores "Amazonification," the spread of global logistics chains, and the reconfiguration of the working class in the 21st century
Josefina L. Martínez
April 19, 2024Beyond Reform: The Limits of the New Labor Bureaucracy
Rank and file reform caucuses are pushing the union bureaucracies into struggle, but building real working class power requires more than reform.
James Dennis Hoff
April 19, 2024Rutgers Faculty Denounce Silencing of Pro-Palestine Speech at Universities
Below we republish a statement from Rutgers Faculty for Justice in Palestine denouncing the Congressional hearings against free speech in support of Palestine at universities.
Rutgers Faculty for Justice in Palestine
April 19, 2024Detroit Police Escalate Repression of Pro-Palestinian Protests
On April 15, Detroit Police cracked down on a pro-Palestine car caravan. This show of force was a message to protestors and an attempt to slow the momentum of the movement by intimidating people off the street and tying them up in court.
Brian H. Silverstein
April 18, 2024Labor Notes Must Call on Unions to Mobilize for Palestine on May Day
As the genocide in Gaza rages on, the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions has called on workers around the world to mobilize against the genocide on May 1. Labor Notes, one of the leading organizers of the U.S. labor movement, must heed this call and use their influence in the labor movement to call on unions to join the mobilization
Julia Wallace
April 18, 2024South Korea’s Legislative Election: A Loss for the Right-Wing President, but a Win for the Bourgeois Regime
South Korea’s legislative elections on April 10 were a decisive blow to President Yoon Suk-Yeol — but a win for the bourgeois regime.
Joonseok
April 18, 2024Workers at Google Fired for Standing with Palestine
Google has fired 28 workers who staged a sit-in and withheld their labor. The movement for Palestine must take up the fight against repression.
Left Voice
April 18, 2024The Movement for Palestine Is Facing Repression. We Need a Campaign to Stop It.
In recent weeks, the movement in solidarity with Palestine has faced a new round of repression across the U.S. We need a united campaign to combat this repression, one that raises strategic debates about the movement’s next steps.
Tristan Taylor
April 17, 2024Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Has No Place at Labor Notes
The Labor Notes Conference will have record attendance this year, but it’s showing its limits by opening with a speech from Chicago’s pro-cop Democratic mayor, Brandon Johnson. Instead of facilitating the Democratic Party’s co-optation of our movement, Labor Notes should be a space for workers and socialists to gather and fight for a class-independent alternative.
Emma Lee
April 16, 2024U.S. Imperialism is Pushing Tensions in the Middle East to a Boiling Point
U.S. Imperialism's support for Israel is driving the tensions behind Iran's attack and the escalations in the Middle East. It is all the more urgent for the working class to unite with the movement for Palestine against imperialism and chart a way out of the crisis in the region.
Samuel Karlin
April 15, 2024