Sat Jul 19, 2025
July 19, 2025

Working Class Struggles

Victory to Birmingham Bin Strike!

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...

Unions, immigrant rights, and civil liberties: For a class-struggle left wing in the U.S.

By ERNIE GOTTA Unions have been at the forefront of the opposition to raids by...

Labour’s Rightward March and the Need For a New Party of Struggle

By International Socialist League As the Labour Party continues its unrelenting shift to the...

Observations on the General Strike of July 9 2025 in India

By Mazdoor Inquilab It had been 4 years since the last major general strike by...

Scottsboro Boys: A lesson in defense campaigns

By BRIAN CRAWFORD “No crime in American history—let alone a crime that never occurred—produced as...

Scottsboro Boys: A lesson in defense campaigns

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...

Break with the Democrats: Working people need mass action & their own party

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...

The Trump agenda for labor: Destroy the unions

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...

What will AI mean for the working class?

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...

February 23: Massive response in the streets against the dismantling of Public Education in Spain

By Corriente Roja Madrid Public education flooded the streets of Madrid on February 23, 2025. Class unions, political and social organizations, educational personnel, the...

Confronting mass layoffs in Peru

By Manuel Fernández Since 6 August 2024, the workers of Cerámicas Lima S.A. (Celima) have been facing the devastating collective, mass dismissals carried out by...

The mammoth strike at Samsung India 

Since September 9, the workers at the Samsung plant at Sriperambudur in the Southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, have been on strike. Over...

Brazil: The launch of the “Peoples’ Summit” marks the beginning of mobilizations in protest of the G20 meeting

CSP-Conlutas was present at the launching event, which took place in Rocinha (Rio de Janeiro), on Saturday, September 14. By CSP-Conlutas, Brazil Different social movements and...

A key discussion in the face of layoffs in Peru: Should we rely on “justice” or mobilization?

The recent collective dismissals at the ceramics manufacturer Celima are part of a long list of closures, layoffs, and impositions of “perfect work suspensions”...

Call Centres: part of capitalism’s DNA

By Hakan Turgut Recently, Turkish newspapers have reported on the "outrage" caused by the response given by a call centre representative to a customer who...

U.S. workers need to break with the Democrats

By COOPER BARD The first 2024 presidential debate showed an incompetent current leader and a charlatan, both delivering exaggerations and lies. The one could only...

Bay Area workers face retaliation for Palestine solidarity

By SANTIAGO ITLIONG The genocide in Palestine committed by the state of Israel has horrified global onlookers over the last 10 months. While the violence...

Teamster president okays racist, anti-trans statement by GOP politician

By ERNIE GOTTA Teamster President Sean O’Brien caused a wave of divergent opinions in the labor movement following his speech at the Republican National Convention....

Union organizing, fighting oppression, & class independence

By ERNIE GOTTA As elections approach in the U.S., the electoral options for working people seem dismal. There is no denying the fact that the...