Workers unite!

L.D. Barkley — A leader in the Attica uprising

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Attica Prison Uprising. The following slightly edited excerpt is from the book…

February 17, 2021

Solidarity accelerates with Amazon workers’ union drive in Alabama

Solidarity with the struggle of 5,800+ Amazon workers in Bessemer, Ala., to unionize continues to grow, following the heroic lead…

February 16, 2021

Montgomery Bus Boycott, Bessemer, prisons – Class struggle then and now

Fifty years after the end of the U.S. Civil War — and during the height of horrific lynchings of Black…

February 16, 2021

Incarcerated workers say: ‘Solidarity with Amazon workers!’

The following letters from incarcerated workers in the Pennsylvania prison system were sent by email on Feb. 13 and 15…

February 16, 2021

Morgan Lewis lawyers – high-paid union-busting thugs

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, bosses hired Pinkerton Agency goon squads to infiltrate unions, break strikes and…

February 16, 2021

From electric vehicles to corruption — UAW faces huge challenges

General Motors CEO Mary Barra raised more than a few eyebrows Jan. 28, when she announced GM would have an…

February 16, 2021

Karen Lewis, 1953-2021: Lessons from a teacher, leader and courageous fighter

The global working-class, Black liberation and labor movements lost a courageous fighter when Karen Lewis — former president of the…

February 15, 2021

Oregon care workers dare to strike

In Springfield, Ore., essential health workers at The Rawlin at Riverbend Memory Care facility have set a Feb. 16 strike…

February 15, 2021

Philadelphians demand COVID safety

Several dozen teachers, parents and community activists protested outside Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenny’s home on Feb 12. They were demanding…

February 15, 2021

On the picket line

Ohio auto parts workers move to unionize Workers at the Borger auto parts plant in Norwalk, Ohio, have experienced sexual…

February 12, 2021