Working Class Struggles

The protests stands as one of the largest single action by workers anywhere in India. These are contract workers, many of whom come from rural regions of Bihar and North India, they come for a better life to Haryana. Their labour built up one of India’s fastest growing industrial regions. Yet, for their sacrifices, they aren’t given the basic respect of a regular pay.

There has been a general strike almost every year since the year 2010, yet the Indian capitalist class has grown only bolder in its attacks on the working class. It is important to understand why this contradiction exists, and to understand the general strike in context.

Despite all its steps toward authoritarianism, the regime fails to gain the consent of the masses. The labor-capital contradiction creating an undeniable crisis, and corruption is erupting in every field. Every new attack on universities further sharpens the anger of the youth against the regime.

San Francisco educators and school workers have won our first strike in nearly 50 years. The strike galvanized our entire union, garnered support from the City’s working-class, and forced a long-intransigent district to concede on our key demands for better working and living conditions.

Despite their union leadership’s betrayal, rank-and-file nurses refused to back down. Led by their executive committee, NYP strikers called an emergency rally at 11 a.m. on Feb. 11 by Herald Square. Around 100 nurses marched to the NYSNA Manhattan headquarters to protest the betrayal by their union leadership and chanted outside the building while their bargaining committee delivered a petition demanding accountability and an open hearing with NYSNA president Nancy Hagans. According to local executive committee president Beth Loudin, the petition had garnered over 1500 signatures from striking nurses overnight.

Today's resistance in Minneapolis builds on a legacy full of lessons on how to fight fascism and organize a general strike

Over 15,000 nurses from 10 hospitals have gone on strike, demanding improvements in worker and patient safety and better health benefits.

The immigrant rights movement today must have labor’s full participation in opposition to the Trump regime’s terror. The fact that a Teamster local like 705 is standing up for immigrant workers is important given that Sean O’Brien, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, has consistently made disparaging comments about immigrants on his podcast.

Petrobras Violently Represses Strike at Refinery and Boaventura Energy Complex in Rio de Janeiro State Oil workers across the country began a national strike on the morning of December 15 in response to Petrobras’s third proposal for the 2025–2026 collective bargaining agreement. The decision to strike was made at mass assemblies held at all bases […]

In Portugal, the main trade union confederations, CGTP-IN and UGT, have called a general strike for December 11, 2025. This is the first joint strike by these unions since 2013, a clear sign of the degree of mobilization and dissatisfaction among workers in the face of a profound attack on their rights. The motto of […]

By ERNIE GOTTA Read here the news and views from the class struggle in the U.S. and internationally! This edition features news from Connecticut, Ohio, Kentucky, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles. Auto workers in Conn. threaten strike at Cummins UAW Local 379 is demanding wage and health benefit increases, profit sharing, and job security at Cummins/Jacob […]

By ERNIE GOTTA Unionized federal employees are facing a real crisis due to serious attacks by the Trump administration. These attacks threaten the very existence of federal unions and collective bargaining rights that provide good wages and working conditions. This threat should put all union workers on notice. Why does Trump need to smash the […]

By B. COOPER On July 21, the workers of AFSCME District Council 33 (DC 33) in Philadelphia, who were on strike for eight days over issues of pay, health care, and other issues, voted to approve a new three-year contract. The new contract includes 3% raises per year retroactive to July 1 of this year, […]

By TONY STABILE and GUILLERMO SCHRODER Zohran Mamdani, a DSA (Democratic Socialists of America) member and New York State Assemblyman representing parts of Queens, won the Democratic Party mayoral primary in New York City on July 1. His electoral success demonstrates a groundswell of support for left political policies and a heightening of the crisis […]

Labour has abandoned workers on strike. By ISL Birmingham City Council (BCC) Unite bin workers went on strike on 6 January because 170 affected workers face cuts in their wages of up to £8,000 a year. Then, as the council and commissioners refused to move their position on 11 March the strike became an indefinite […]

By ERNIE GOTTA Unions have been at the forefront of the opposition to raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and President Trump’s growing authoritarianism. Anti-ICE mobilizations have included thousands of union members across the U.S. who demand an end to ICE terror in their communities. The mass opposition to ICE shows a dynamic initial […]