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September 05, 2024

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10,000 hotel workers strike across the U.S.! 

By ERNIE GOTTA More than 10,000 union hotel workers are on strike in cities including San Francisco, Seattle, Boston, Baltimore, San Jose, San Diego, Greenwich, Conn., and in Hawaii, disrupting...

Despite the convention pageantry, Democratic Party politics hit a dead end

By JOHN PRIETO The Democratic National Convention (DNC) is over. What we saw was a...

Kamala Harris is no friend of Palestine

By N. IRAZU A month ago, a shakeup took place in the Democratic Party, which...

U.S. workers need to break with the Democrats

By COOPER BARD The first 2024 presidential debate showed an incompetent current leader and a...

Bay Area workers face retaliation for Palestine solidarity

By SANTIAGO ITLIONG The genocide in Palestine committed by the state of Israel has horrified...

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...

Interview with a farmworker in California’s Central Valley

By WORKERS’ VOICE We met in the city of Orosi, Calif., with a farmworker, Ixtel, to conduct this interview to learn about the situation of...

Immigrant workers on hunger strike at two detention centers

By N. IRAZU On July 1, immigrants detained in the private detention centers of Mesa Verde (MV) and Golden State Annex (GSA) in California launched...

Trump / Vance and the GOP: The hard right goes mainstream

By JOHN LESLIE After the assassination attempt on former President Trump, some GOP supporters—from Tucker Carlson to Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.)—called Trump a “changed” man...

White House statement stokes panic against transgender youth

By MAR RENO In the 2024 State of the Union address , Joe Biden shouted out the transgender youth of the U.S., “You’re so brave!...

Why did the Teamsters president address the RNC?

By ERNIE GOTTA Sean O’Brien, general president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, surprised many by being one of the guest speakers during the first...

Trump winged in shooting: What comes next?

By CARLOS SAPIR Donald Trump was about an inch away from death on July 13, taking a bullet to the ear but seemingly still in...

How to (not) fight against antisemitism

By CARLOS SAPIR In early June, news media reported in shocked tones that the editors of Wikipedia had decided by a wide margin to no...

What’s next for the Palestine solidarity movement on college campuses?

By DAN BELLE and N. IRAZU In over nine months of the global fight to end Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza, college campuses have become...

The 2024 election: No choices for working people

By JOHN LESLIE The 2024 election offers no real choices for working-class people. It’s Genocide Joe versus the reactionary liar and racist Trump. Even before...

Detained immigrants relaunch labor strike at ICE detention centers in California

By MESA VERDA-GOLDEN STATE ANNEX SOLIDARITY COMMITTEE Strikers are demanding an end to ICE detention centers, release from detention, an end to solitary confinement, restoration...

Unions and social justice organizations speak out for reproductive rights

By EMMA GRACE “The same forces that are attacking our reproductive rights are also trying to destroy our rights as workers. … Without workers, the...

Competing imperialist powers exploit Latin America

By JOSE MONTEROJO The inter-imperialist rivalry in which the dominant imperialist powers (primarily the United States and China) attempt to reestablish social/political control and profitable...

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...