Working Class Struggles

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 […]

By International Socialist League As the Labour Party continues its unrelenting shift to the right—often echoing the rhetoric and policies of the far right—a growing number of voices are calling for the formation of a new party rooted in the interests of the working class, many are also calling it a new party of the […]

By Mazdoor Inquilab It had been 4 years since the last major general strike by central trade unions in 2021. Since 2010, there had been a general strike once every year by trade unions until the pandemic hit. The past strikes were massive one day strikes that caused large, but temporary, disruptions to the system, […]

By BRIAN CRAWFORD “No crime in American history—let alone a crime that never occurred—produced as many trials, convictions, reversals and retrials” as the case of the Scottsboro Boys,” wrote Douglas Linder in “Famous Trials.” Nine young Black men boarded a freight train in Chattanooga, Tenn., bound for Memphis. Accusations of rape would be the catalyst […]

By JOHN PRIETO In recent months, Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have undertaken their nationwide “Fight Oligarchy Tour.” Hundreds of thousands of people have attended these events or viewed them online. Many say that they have been heartened and even inspired to hear these elected representatives voice their opposition to the reactionary policies of the […]

By JAMES MARKIN The assault from the Trump administration against federal workers has been coming thick and fast ever since his inauguration in January. A full list of attacks would be too long to fit in this article, so here are some highlights. First, the administration sent out the now infamous “Fork in the Road” […]

By HERMAN MORRIS Everywhere one looks in America, the message from corporations and even the government is clear. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is coming to change your life. Look at any screen and you will see how a new magical technology is going to change education, art, medicine, manufacturing, etc. It would be easier to list […]