Fast-food joints like Burger King are monitoring staff “friendliness” using AI headsets. These Big Brother tactics are dehumanizing and don’t help productivity.
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Immigrants lead the way in historic strike at Colorado meatpacking plant
This tenacious action drew international attention to the realities of labor exploitation within the industrial food system.
U.S. Workers Have the Power
A May Day statement from the Freedom Socialist Party.
Rewriting the Chávez legacy: Male chauvinism & lack of union democracy led to abuses
A Radical Women statement by Yolanda Alaniz, who grew up as a farmworker in Eastern Washington
Striking for justice across the US
A trio of workplace actions show that U.S. labor militancy is alive and well.
Letters to the editor, April 2026
Public pressure needed to assist Mumia Abu-Jamal. And: People weigh in on articles from Amazon workers to general strikes and small-town organizing.
Unionists build workers’ power to face austerity threat
Public sector workers in Australia are fighting back against looming job cuts and even more intense workloads.
Town hall builds support for a general strike
A packed meeting at Seattle Labor Temple addresses the urgent need for solidarity to repel attacks by the Trump regime.
Pregnant Amazon workers expose warehouse abuses
Women speak out against the discriminatory and life-threatening conditions they faced while pregnant.
Defending fired professor Tom Alter
When a tenured prof’s job is threatened because he speaks his mind, what are the implications for all workers?
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Kansas: a beacon for abortion rights
Even in a post-Dobbs world, crucial liberties like reproductive freedom can be defended through vigilance and militant organizing!
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Cuba: A Socialist Dream Deferred
Traces the ups and downs of the Cuban Revolution and the critical issue of rising capitalist influence. Analyzes the main actors in Cuban society today and discusses the path forward.