The explosive history of the CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations), whose innovative techniques and organizing concepts shook the power structure to its core.
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Fight to free Peltier heats up
Help in the renewed fight to finally free Peltier, Native American leader wrongly convicted for killing two FBI agents during a shoot-out at Pine Ridge Reservation in 1977. Also: carpenter’s strike coverage, and a recent book on the Bolshevik Revolution.
Las bases se rebelan en la huelga de carpinteros del oeste de Washington
En las oscuras horas de una mañana de mediados de septiembre de 2021, carpinteros sindicalizados comenzaron a hacer piquetes en las obras de construcción en toda el área occidental del estado de Washington.
Ranks rebel in Western Washington carpenters’ strike
Union carpenters voted down four contracts, and forced a three-week strike. Get the details on what happened during this rank-and-file driven strike this fall.
The supply chain blues
Megan Cornish, a student and teacher of Marxist economics, looks at the absurdity of capitalists unable to get their goods to market.
Strike wave rolls across the US
The working class is waking up to its own strength.
Let’s mess with Texas
“States’ rights” are just a cover for bigots everywhere.
La Ley PRO: sindicatos presionan a favor de la reforma audaz
Los trabajadores de los Estados Unidos están hartos de las condiciones de trabajo inciertas, losbajos salarios, las horas extras obligatorias, el cese de las prestaciones por desempleo relacionadas con la pandemia y la pérdida de las moratorias de desalojo.
Unions push for bold reform
What is the PRO Act? And what will it take to win it? Lessons of history’s militant strikes and solidarity, led by rank-and-file unionists, point the way.
Robin Hood program for working-class survival
A 10-point plan that advocates taking from the rich and the Pentagon to give to those hit hard by economic blows.
