For all its difficulties and outright calamities, the year 2019 gave the workers and oppressed of the world a lot to celebrate.
Corporations
The corporate bankruptcy scam
How the rich get richer by going broke in a scam that steals from the working-class public.
The UAW-GM struggle has inspired all workers!
Solidarity greetings from the Freedom Socialist Party to the strikers who drew a line in the sand to demand a better future.
Tell General Motors to negotiate a fair contract with 48,000 American workers
Autoworkers are striking to demand fair wages, a fair share of profits, a path to permanent employment for temporary workers, affordable health care, and job security.
Demand Comcast withdraw its Supreme Court challenge of our oldest civil rights statute
Comcast NBCUniversal is petitioning the Supreme Court to challenge the integrity of the Civil Rights Act of 1866, our oldest civil rights statute.
The opioid crisis
Steven Strauss, M.D., explains what’s needed and possible.
From livable city to company town: How Amazon and Boeing ate Seattle
In just a couple decades, billionaire businesses have intensified poverty, homelessness and dislocation in Seattle. This city has a long tradition of labor rebellion which it can surely revive.
Sign the petition: Governor Northam, demand Amazon end its relationship with ICE
“Amazon’s relationship with ICE exacerbates racial profiling and puts our communities in danger.”
Labor Weather Report: Workers warm up January 2019
Los Angeles teachers walk, Amazon faces union drive, and a general strike rocks India.
Poverty by design
Why worker’s paychecks can’t pay the bills — in the richest country in the world.
