Let’s take time this Memorial Day weekend to remember Memorial Day 1937, when workers in Chicago were massacred by police for trying to picket against their employer, the Republic Steel Company. It all started as steelworkers for five steel companies – Bethlehem...
On April 17th, 2,900 auto workers went on strike at the Volvo truck factory in Dublin, Virginia. The strike was solid, and shut down the largest Volvo truck factory in the world. But thirteen days later United Auto Workers (UAW) officials told striking workers they...
On Wednesday, April 28th, 2021, mass protests erupted in Colombia, opposing a series of proposed tax reforms that would impact the working class, already struggling amid unemployment and the consequences of the pandemic. Large strikes have been organized by Colombia’s...
Healthcare workers in Argentina’s Neuquén province are continuing protests and strikes in a struggle that is inspiring workers throughout the county to fight back against their plummeting standard of living and their union bureaucracies’ weak attempts at appeasing...
May Day 2021: Celebrating the Struggles of the Past — Preparing Those of the Future Join us for an international celebration of May Day. This is just a small glimpse of some of the struggles from the past year around the...
