This week, we celebrate the 90th anniversary of the 1934 general strike in San Francisco, when 150,000 workers across the Bay Area shut down the city for four days in a tremendous display of worker power. The strike had begun on May 9 as a West Coast-wide walkout of...
In 1940s North Carolina, the racist system called “Jim Crow” oppressed every aspect of Black lives. Segregation and discrimination were enforced by racist courts and police, and by the violence of organizations like the KKK. Jim Crow also ruled North Carolina’s...
On May 9, Argentinian workers’ unions conducted a general strike in a show of opposition to the austerity measures and so-called reforms of recently elected radical libertarian President Javier Milei. Milei, who lists right-wing economist Milton Friedman and...
Reprinted from the website of the New Anti-capitalist Party (NPA) in France. Written by an NPA worker activist who attended the Labor Notes conference in Chicago April 21-24. Published on April 30, 2024. The “Labor Notes” conference gathered this year under the motto,...
April 29, 2024 editorial of the New Anticapitalist Party (NPA) in France, translated from French This week, working men and women will be marching to put forward their demands against capitalist exploitation and all that it engenders. It has to be said that, once...
