Labor Movement
#AllThatsLeftPod: UPS Workers Prepare for a Strike
In this episode of the podcast, we discuss the contract fight at UPS, and what's at stake for the Teamsters and the labor movement.
Left Voice
May 2, 2023Striking Workers at the University of Michigan Are Building Powerful Solidarity
University of Michigan graduate students have been on strike for one month. While these workers have faced harsh conditions, the broad connections and class-consciousness they are developing are worth celebrating.
Ryan McCarty
April 29, 2023#AllThatsLeftPod: The Uprising in France
In this episode of the podcast, we're joined by a revolutionary socialist from France to discuss the massive mobilizations that have rocked the country since January, and what it will take for the working class to win.
Left Voice
April 28, 2023University of Michigan Graduate Student Strike Continues in the Face of Increasing Retaliation
After losing a court injunction hearing, the University of Michigan administrators have given up any pretense of continuing negotiations with its own graduate student workers. Instead, the university has turned to attempts at intimidation to try to break the strike.
Ryan McCarty
April 24, 2023Striking Graduate Workers at University of Michigan Hold Rally for Abolition
Striking graduate student workers are fighting to get cops off campus and investing in non-police public safety.
Left Voice
April 20, 2023South Korea: Building a Powerful General Strike Is Urgent to Fight Against the Right-Wing Government’s Attacks
The right-wing government in South Korea is waging attacks on the country's unions and labor movement. The organization March To Socialism calls for a general strike to resist these attacks on the working class.
Joonseok
April 18, 2023Equal Pay Today, the Whole World Tomorrow: Speech from the Rutgers Picket Line
Academic workers are strengthening their organizing muscles. The bonds formed during these contract campaigns can lay the groundwork for more largescale class struggle in the future.
Olivia Wood
April 14, 2023Historic Strike at Tisséo: Toulouse Metro Blocked for the First Time Since 1992
On Tuesday, April 11, the transport workers of Toulouse, France, organized a massive strike after a call from the local coalition of unions. In a historic day of mobilization, the workers of Tisséo, the city’s transit company, united to block traffic on the Toulouse metro for the first time since 1992.
Alberta Nur
April 14, 2023University of Michigan Graduate Students Strike for a Living Wage and a Broad Social Justice Agenda
The University of Michigan is once again threatening legal action in an attempt to end the strike, but graduate workers are standing strong and fighting for a contract that addresses the needs of the whole community.
Ryan McCarty
April 7, 2023The European Strike Wave and the Potential of the Working Class
With its epicenter in France, a wave of strikes is developing in several European countries. As the working class takes to the streets against a cost of living crisis, anti-union attacks, and austerity, is there a common theme to this resurgence of class struggle?
Josefina L. Martínez
April 7, 2023