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Teacher, union member, baseball enthusiast, communist.

• Remembering and Unerasing Trans History: Two Medieval Writings on Trans Identity

  By Editor on November 20, 2019

  

  One of the most prevalent attacks on trans people in the US, from both the left and the right, is that trans identity is a product of modern times and cannot be found in preceding eras. This is a product… Read More ›

• How to Donate to Striking UAW Workers

  By Editor on October 11, 2019

  

  Below you will find a list of UAW locals that have called to the public for donations to the strike funds to better support striking workers. You can read about the financial difficulties striking workers are facing on strike, and… Read More ›

• This Labor Day, Celebrate the History and Promise of the American Labor Movement

  By Editor on September 2, 2019

  

  In the United States, those of us who are leftist workers have a vexed relationship with this labor day, the first Monday in September. The day was a refuge for the American state and compromising union leadership from the May… Read More ›

• 680 Workers Arrested in Mississippi by ICE

  By Editor on August 7, 2019

  

  In what’s being called one of the largest raids in recent US immigration history, ICE agents have arrested 680 workers across the state of Mississippi, mostly at Koch Foods Inc. food processing plants. Workers were ambushed by nearly 600 ICE… Read More ›

• The Fascists are on the March Against Women’s Rights—We Must Respond

  By Editor on May 16, 2019

  

  Ever since the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973, the religious right in the United States has waged unrelenting war on the right of women to bodily autonomy, often using terroristic tactics in its war. With the rise of Donald… Read More ›

• The Meaning of May Day

  By Editor on April 30, 2019

  

  Today is May Day. For the rest of the world, May Day has a rich cultural and political history. Originating in ancient Roman spring festivals, contemporary May Day customs were developed in the 14th and 15th century in England. A… Read More ›

• Rafael Surí, an Important Cuban LGBTQ+ Activist, Has Died

  By Editor on April 1, 2019

  

  Read the original report in Spanish here. Rafael Surí, an important Cuban LGBTQ+ activist has died from illness at the age of only 31. According to the most recent reports from Cuba, “Rafa was facing a difficult health situation that… Read More ›

• #CountMeInNYC Has Called a Truce With Related, Members Vow to Stay Vigilant

  By Editor on March 11, 2019

  

  The New York City construction worker protest scheduled for 3/15 been officially cancelled, as CountMeIn leaders announced on March 8th that a deal had been reached. In a statement released on their facebook and twitter, CountMeIn leaders stated that abandoning… Read More ›

• UIC Grad Students Prepare for Strike, Call for Aid

  By Editor on March 7, 2019

  

  The graduate student union at the University of Illinois at Chicago is preparing what they have called an “indefinite strike” beginning March 19th, unless their demands for higher wages and better working conditions are met by the university administration. Their… Read More ›

• A New Marxist-Leninist Organization in Puerto Rico, Comuna Antilla, Has Declared Itself

  By Editor on February 24, 2019

  

  On February 21st, 2019, a group of students and workers released a statement declaring a new Marxist-Leninist organization in Puerto Rico called Comuna Antilla.

• Tax Breaks for Who? U.S. Students Currently Unable to Deduct Tuition in 2018 Returns

  By Editor on February 8, 2019

  

  Students preparing to file their taxes for 2018 should prepare for an unpleasant surprise in their return numbers. For the 2018 tax year, those taxes filed now in early 2019, all U.S. college students are currently (as of February 8th)… Read More ›

• Declaración del PET Condenando el Ataque Violento contra Estudiantes Organizadores en CCH Azcapotzalco el 3 de Septiembre // Statement Condemning the Violent Attack against Students at CCH Azcapotzalco on September 3rd

  By Editor on September 3, 2018

  

  El Partido Estadounidense del Trabajo condena el cobarde ataque de las autoridades universitarias contra estudiantes que luchan por mejores condiciones en la CCH Azcapotzalco el 3 de septiembre. En respuesta a las demandas razonables de suficientes maestros para todas las materias,… Read More ›

• Another School Year Begins Without Change Or Solutions From Reformists

  By Editor on August 31, 2018

  

  As I and other students, graduate assistants, professors, adjunct faculty, and office and campus support employees begin to return to school for fall semester, we find remarkably similar challenges to those faced by university communities since the 2008 economic collapse…. Read More ›

• Anti-Fascist Martyr: 80 Years Ago, Comrade Lilo Herrmann Was Murdered By Nazi German Fascism!

  By Editor on July 15, 2018

  

  Originally published in Arbeit Zukunft, the paper for the Organization for the Construction of the Communist Workers Party of Germany.  On June 20, 1938, communist and anti-fascist partisan Liselotte (Lilo) Herrmann was executed by the murderous henchmen of the Nazis by… Read More ›

• Trump’s Camps are a Fascist Foundation That We Must Dismantle

  By Editor on June 27, 2018

  

  The news regarding Donald Trump’s policy of ripping children from their parents and imprisoning them indefinitely in what can only be called concentration camps has been fast developing, and many on the left have rushed to consider what the implications… Read More ›