Thu Oct 23, 2025
October 23, 2025

Working Class Struggles

Labor Roundup

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...

What’s at stake with Trump’s attacks on federal workers?

By ERNIE GOTTA Unionized federal employees are facing a real crisis due to serious attacks...

What next for Philadelphia city workers after their strike?

By B. COOPER On July 21, the workers of AFSCME District Council 33 (DC 33)...

What does Mamdani’s primary win mean for working people?

By TONY STABILE and GUILLERMO SCHRODER Zohran Mamdani, a DSA (Democratic Socialists of America) member...

Victory to Birmingham Bin Strike!

Labour has abandoned workers on strike. By ISL Birmingham City Council (BCC) Unite bin workers went...

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...

Interview: An immigrant worker fights company abuse

By N. IRAZU At the beginning of June, I interviewed Edgar Becerra, a migrant worker from Guatemala who is carrying out a defense campaign against...

United States: Workers March for Palestine in the Bay Area

By JAMES MARKIN This last May Day in the Bay Area, actions and observances brought labor issues together with the antiwar movement. Bay Area Labor...

Union Victory: Workers at Volkswagen Vote to Join the UAW

By ERNIE GOTTA Workers at the Volkswagen (VW) factory in Chattanooga, Tenn., have voted to join the United Auto Workers union (UAW). The vote was an...

UAW 2710 Asks for Solidarity Against Repression of Columbia U. Protests

SIGN THE PETITION! On April 18, Minouche Shafik, the president of Columbia, violated university procedures and authorized the NYPD to arrest dozens of Columbia students,...

The Road Ahead for the U.S. Labor Movement

By ERNIE GOTTA The working class in the U.S. faces many challenges. Working people are living through a difficult but dynamic moment when hundreds of...

Stellantis (formerly Fiat): A Class Analysis

Interview by the editorial team of the PdAC, Italy website The situation of auto factories in Italy is dramatic. Every week brings news of a...

Brazil: On the Transport Strike in São Paulo

On November 28, São Paulo went on strike against the privatizations happening under the Tarcísio government. Among the strikers’ demands are the reinstatement of...

Indefinite Strike by Transport Workers at Keolis in France

For one week, the workers at a bus depot owned by Keolis, a private company and subsidiary of SNCF (“the French National Railway Company,”...

INTERVIEW : “The importance of the CSP-Conlutas Congress in Brazil lies in its class independence,” says Atnágoras Lopes

By: Roberto Aguiar, from Salvador (BA The Fifth National CSP-Conlutas Congress will be held at the Clube Guapira in the city of São Paulo, Brazil...

Solidarity with Hugo Blanco, Historic Latin American Peasant Leader

Hugo Blanco, a historic Peruvian peasant leader has been hospitalized in Sweden, where he went to live with his daughters. He is 88 years...