UE Locals 506 and 618 have been on strike since June 22. Close to 1,000 UE workers and supporters rallied to show their solidarity.
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Being the Communist on the Job Site: A Letter from a Construction Worker in NYC
I’m a unionized construction worker in New York City. I’m also a communist. You may not think the building trades are a hotbed of Marxist politics, but consciousness is changing!
Erie, PA Workers Fight for Decent Pay
Locomotive factory workers in Erie, PA are in a bitter struggle against givebacks and to protect their standard of living. An injury to one is an injury to all!
Spotlight on Class Struggle: Actors and Writers Join Forces
The biggest drama of the summer isn’t Barbie or Oppenheimer, it’s the labor struggle unfolding in Hollywood. Beleaguered writers and actors have teamed up against a supervillain as bad as any you’d see in an action movie.
The Struggle Over Safe Staffing for Nurses
Three years after the start of the pandemic, “burnout” is threatening our healthcare system. Nurses around the country are fighting for legislation around safe nurse-to-patient ratios, but the for-profit healthcare industry is fighting back.
The 1934 Textile Strike: A Watershed Moment in the American Class Struggle
The 1934 Textile Mill Strike was a watershed moment in the American class struggle. Despite being defeated, it is a shining example of workers’ capacity for sacrifice and self-organization.
Supreme Court Attacks the Right to Strike
The Supreme Court is again attacking the right to strike. The labor movement needs to fight back!
Lessons of the Rutgers Strike
Joining the massive wave of labor action on campuses across the country, academic workers at New Jersey’s largest public university went on strike on April 10. Big lessons for the broader labor movement can be learned from both its successes and limitations.
Trouble in Hollywood: Writers Guild on Strike
The crisis of capitalism means there is no job free from the grinding oppression of the profit motive. A victory for the Writers Guild of America would be a victory for the entire working class against the capitalists.
How the Ruling Class Controls the Courts
As the labor movement gains momentum, the US Chamber of Commerce—the largest pro-business lobbying group in the country—is working hand-in-glove with the Supreme Court to undermine workers’ rights.
Nationwide Industrial Strike in Iran: Revolutionary Youth Call for a General Strike!
A nationwide strike has broken out across Iran. Beginning April 21 at 18 workplaces, it has spread to over 100 firms across the mining, steel, and oil-gas sectors.
Letter from a Colorado Mining Industry Worker
While other industries can shutter a storefront overnight to stifle unionization efforts, mining corporations cannot do the same with a mining operation. Conditions are rotten-ripe for the expropriation of these crucial industries, which we cannot entrust to the capitalists.
The Communist: The Voice of America’s Communist Generation
The Communist is the official newspaper of the party of the Revolutionary Communists of America. It is different from any other publication you’ll find in the US today. Behind this newspaper, there’s a vast network of communist activity from coast to coast. It is a tool for organizing in the streets, at protests and strikes, for building communist cells in our neighborhoods, workplaces, and campuses.
The RCA is on a mission to carry Bolshevism into the political arena of a country that’s ripe for it. Yes, we’re Bolsheviks living in the digital age, and we also use social media and our podcast to spread the communist program. But we’re not the kind of internet leftists who stay inside and “do politics” online. That’s why we need something we can carry with us into the streets and put into people’s hands. The physical paper is an instrument for building a real-life organization—a genuine Communist Party of fighters.