Unions
Left Voice Magazine for April 2024 — Labor Notes Edition!
In this issue, we delve into the state and future of the labor movement today. We take a look at the prospects for Palestinian liberation through the lens of Leon Trotsky’s theory of Permanent Revolution, and discuss the way that Amazon has created new conditions of exploitation and how workers across the world are fighting back.
Left Voice
April 20, 2024The New Labor Movement and the Need for Anti-Imperialist and Class Independent Politics
The rise of labor in the US has put the working class at the center of national politics. It deserves class-independent politics free of the capitalist constraints of the Democratic Party.
Tatiana Cozzarelli
April 19, 2024Inside 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, 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, 2024The Organic Crisis in 2024: This Year’s Election Is a Battle for the Hearts and Minds of U.S. Workers
The battle between Trump and Biden is being shaped by a crisis of the political regime, requiring the intervention of both the judiciary and the union bureaucracy. The battle for the presidency is a battle for the working class and a battle over which approach to imperialism is best for competing with China and reestablishing US hegemony. As usual, the Democrats are taking up the cudgel of democratic rights in order to rally disaffected voters.
Sybil Davis
February 23, 2024AFL-CIO’s Ceasefire Call Shows Power of the Movement for Palestine
The AFL-CIO has called for a ceasefire in Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza. The labor movement must go further for Palestinian liberation and break with the bipartisan regime.
Otto Fors
February 11, 2024The Hollywood Strikes Showed That a New Kind of Class Consciousness Is Growing
The SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes showed a new type of solidarity in the labor movement and reflected a growing class consciousness around labor. We must build on these lessons as the labor movement heads into 2024.
Sybil Davis
December 21, 2023Uniting Workers for Palestine Is a Fight for the Future of Labor
The struggle for Palestine shows the potential for the rank and file to push unions to break with imperialism and to build a new, combative, and internationalist unionism.
Tatiana Cozzarelli
November 27, 2023The Labor Movement Is Key for Palestinian Liberation
As part of the global movement in solidarity with Palestine and against the genocidal policies of the Israeli government, labor unions are taking action and demanding a ceasefire. This is not only a welcomed addition to the movement, but a necessary one that concretely shows the power of the working class.
Tristan Taylor
November 18, 2023Organized Student Labor Must Fight for Palestine
Newly unionized academic workers have a unique opportunity, and a duty, to support the movement for a Free Palestine.
Rose Lemlich
November 17, 2023