Workers
AMLO’s First Hundred Days and the Awakening of Workers’ Struggles in Mexico
AMLO has promised to transform Mexico, but only the working class has the power to bring about real change.
Pablo Oprinari
April 9, 2019The Working Class Is Back
Editorial for Left Voice magazine #4: We don’t want to be stuck in an endless cycle of resistance to the endless deprivations of capitalism. We want to win.
Nathaniel Flakin
March 2, 2019Trump Rescues Coal Profits — As Coal Workers Are Dying
Trump portrayed himself as a friend of coal workers on the campaign trail. But the administration has sat idly by as hundreds of miners are slowly dying of black lung.
Robert Belano
December 27, 2018Disney Workers Win Battle for Increased Starting Wage
After months of struggle, 10,000 Disney workers in California won a $15 an hour starting wage and improved working conditions.
Left Voice
August 10, 2018Universal Basic Income: A Capitalist Fix to the Evils of Capitalism?
Supporters of Universal Basic Income (UBI) either entertain illusions in a top-down palliative measure for the miseries of capitalism or look for an impossible shortcut for organizing the working class.
Esteban Mercatante
August 7, 2018Support B&H Workers!
B&H, a famous New York photo, video and audio store, is trying to close its Brooklyn warehouses. 300 workers could lose their jobs – all because they voted to join a union. But labor activists aren't putting up with this attempt at union busting.
Nathaniel Flakin
April 25, 2017Unemployment and Poverty, Inherent Features of Capitalism
Millions of workers in the U.S. and around the world struggle to survive, often working low-wage, part-time jobs with no benefits. These victims of capitalism's drive for profits must be at the center of a working class fightback. Without a working class alternative, rightists like Trump will step in to masquerade as champions of working people.
John Leslie
July 7, 2016Worker Struggles in Ciudad Juárez
Ciudad Juárez has sadly earned its fame as the capital of feminicide. With the assembly plant boom during the nineties, Juárez became one of the worst cities for a woman to live in. Roberto Bolaño’s hellish images from La parte de los crímenes in 2666 about a detective’s pilgrimage to document chauvinist violence at the border in the desert of Santa Teresa have undoubtedly become a reality.
Sergio Moissen
February 29, 2016Mass mobilization, political crisis and capitalism in Eastern Europe
Many of the capitalist regimes in Eastern Europe have faced continued instability as they are challenged by mass movements from below. What is the historical background to these struggles and what are the challenges and limits of these movements?
Philippe Alcoy
February 9, 2016Maquiladora Workers Run as Independents in Juarez
The workers’ movement spurred by the courageous maquiladora workers of EATON, Foxconn and Lexmark are stirring controversy and excitement in the city of Juárez. The workers decided to advance an independent candidate for the highest position in the municipal elections: a woman worker who emerged from the fight for reincorporation and an independent union.
Sergio Moissen
February 4, 2016