The Dockworkers’ Fight: Who Does Automation Serve?
In early October, one of the main demands of the striking dockworkers represented by the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) was to protect workers’ jobs from being replaced by automation. Industrial decision-makers, both businesspeople and government officials, have long been using technological developments to try to make the production of goods as efficient as possible, thereby […]
The Fight of Dock and Delivery Workers is Our Fight, Too
In the past month, we have seen glimpses of workers showing their power in the shipping and delivery sectors, and there could be more to come. Frustrated after working without a contract for almost a year, dockworkers in the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) temporarily shut down major ports along the West Coast in […]
British Dockworkers in 1920 Show International Working-Class Solidarity
In 1920, British dockworkers in East London carried out a little-known strike. It was not simply a strike for higher wages or better conditions. British workers struck to stop the British government’s attempt to militarily crush the Russian Revolution – the first successful workers’ revolution in world history. In 1917, after more than three years […]
Biden Pushes to Increase the Exploitation of Workers to Solve Supply Chain Problems
This supply chain crisis is just one more example of how dysfunctional the system of capitalism is — this system can’t even organize the basic production and distribution of goods.