On Sunday, Sep.15, The United Autoworkers took up the mantle of class once again and authorized a strike against General Motors with the ending of their contract the previous night before. On Monday, Sep.16, the strike began with a… Read More ›
Workers Struggle
News relating to Organized Labor, Strikes, Unionization, and Worker’s Struggles in the Workplace.
This Labor Day, Celebrate the History and Promise of the American Labor Movement
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 ›
Michigan Auto Workers Force Bosses Back to the Bargaining Table
Last week saw victories and defeats for the labor movement in the United States. In Tennessee, The United Automobile Workers saw defeat in an attempt to unionize a auto factory. Outside Detroit, workers used their power of organization against their… Read More ›
Horrific Accident Claims the Life of a Food Processing Plant Worker. OSHA Investigating for Possible Safety Violations/
Courtesy NBC News. All rights reserved to the author and/or NBC news. By Elisha Fieldstadt A woman was killed Tuesday after falling into a meat grinder at her job at a food processing plant in Pennsylvania, the local coroner said…. Read More ›
#CountMeInNYC Has Called a Truce With Related, Members Vow to Stay Vigilant
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
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 ›
#CountMeIn: NYC Construction Workers Say “No Retreat, No Surrender” on March 15
Ekim KILIÇ New York Union construction workers in New York City will protest against the open shop policy of their company with the slogan of “No Retreat, No Surrender” on March 15 at 8 am. The workers will be out… Read More ›
Historical Sketch: American Conservatism and the New Right, 1960 – 2008
Conservatism and Crisis The Civil Rights, Women’s, anti-war, and social change movements of the 1960s and 1970s, spawned a conservative backlash that manifested itself in various ways. From the pagers of National Review magazine, to the conspiracy theories of the… Read More ›
Statement on the Strike in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico, and a Call to Solidarity and Action on January 25th.
The following statement has been signed by the American Party of Labor in solidarity with striking workers in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico. All power to working people! Workplace democracy now! Mexico City, January 20, 2019 To social organizations To democratic unions… Read More ›
Strike in Mexico: The Ruling Class Trembles Before the Workers Strike in Tamaulipas!
Translated by Red Phoenix Staff (Find the original here.) The Worker’s Strike of Matamoros involving thousands of workers is making history. The economic demands for increased wages and annual bonuses are clearly demonstrating the conditions in which millions of workers in… Read More ›
Statement of the Labour Party of Iran (Toufan) on the Arrest and Torture of Labour Activist Esmail Bakhshi
The criminal regime of the Islamic Republic has severely tortured a labour activist to the brink of death. It is more than two months that the workers of Haft Tapeh Sugarcane Agro Industrial Company in the Khuzistan Province of Iran… Read More ›
International Conference of Maxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations: Hundredth Anniversary of the Third, Communist, International
Next year, 2019, the International Conference of M-L Parties and Organizations (ICMLPO) has decided to commemorate this hundredth anniversary. One of the future projects proposed in the ICMLPO is to organize the Marxist-Leninist Communist International, with the aim of promoting… Read More ›
The American Party of Labor Has Been Granted Observer Status in the International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations
The following letter was received by the American Party of Labor from the Coordination Committee of the International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations. Translation is by Red Phoenix staff. “Comrades Alfonso Casal, National Chair and, Víctor Vaughn, National… Read More ›
What We Have to Learn From France
By Ahmet Cengiz Published in Evrensel (12/10/2018) As these lines were being penned, this week’s Saturday march by the “Yellow Vests” had yet to take place. Head of state Macron finally announced through his ministers that he had fully agreed… Read More ›
A New Social Movement is Being Born in Europe
By Yücel Özdemir Originally published in Evrensel (12/07/2018) Not only in France, but in all Europe, those who stand in the vanguard of the urgent demands of the masses will continue to gain in strength. The attention of the whole world… Read More ›
