Republican Congressman Rich McCormick proposed in an interview that free school lunches be removed from schools and children be sent to work for low wages. Bans on child labor were hard-fought battles of the American labor movement.
The 111-day walkout by coal miners, which began on December 6, 1977, was a major strategic experience for the American and international working class.
Any historical appraisal of Bridges, the most notable Stalinist labor official in US history, raises important historical questions for workers today.
WSWS reporters recently conducted an interview with the artistic team at the Theatre Factory, which focuses on the class struggle and social issues.
As new school year begins, teachers plan strikes over cost of living and education budget crisis across Europe; nurses protest pay, workload and redundancies and the disabled protest cost of living crisis in Iran; South African municipal workers in City of Tshwane continue pay strike despite union calls to return to work and state intimidation
Fraser, who was president of the United Auto Workers union from 1977 to 1983, oversaw the destruction of 57,000 Chrysler jobs and cuts in annual wages of the equivalent of nearly $40,000 per worker in today’s terms.
Demonstrators marched at the University of the Republic to commemorate the killing of student Liber Arce by Uruguayan police while salt miners and Toronto grocery workers are among those continuing strikes in the Canadian province of Ontario.
The 285-day strike by Toledo AP Parts workers was the longest in the history of the city and bears important lessons for autoworkers today.
Loach’s conception of the working class is closely bound up with the nationalist straitjacket imposed for so many decades by the Labour and trade union bureaucracy.
The sellout deal that the UAW is attempting to impose at Caterpillar is the latest in an unbroken chain of betrayals by the UAW based on its bankrupt nationalist and pro-company orientation.
Doctors on strike since January in Community of Madrid, Spain, joined by medics in Valencia demanding improved pay and staffing levels; Palestinian teachers in West Bank into second week of pay strike while protests continue over government-backed murders of Palestinians; South African health workers walkout over pay joined by some public sector workers defying government interdict
Ahmed White, of the University of Colorado Law School, is the author of Under the Iron Heel: The Wobblies and the Capitalist War on Radical Workers.
The greatest testament to the IWW’s influence was provided by the extraordinary lengths the American ruling class went to destroy it.
Against the pro-war SPD, Liebknecht declared that, “The main enemy of the German people is in Germany: German imperialism, the German parties of war and German secret diplomacy.”
Instead of clarifying workers on the basic class and historical issues at stake in the present struggle, the letter provides political cover for Biden.
Debs’ life—from locomotive fireman, to trade unionist, to socialist candidate for American president, to class war prisoner—holds crucial lessons for today’s workers.
The film’s most remarkable, and moving, aspect is that its dialogue is carried forward almost entirely by former rank-and-file members of the IWW.
The World Socialist Web Site recently spoke with Mark Kruger about his new book, the 1619 Project, and the current state of American politics.
As workers at Kellogg’s plants in the US prepare to vote on the rotten tentative contract agreement being pushed by the BCTGM they should take note of the critical effort to organize workers internationally in defense of jobs and conditions at Kellogg’s that was launched by the International Committee in 1995.
American capitalism has systematically disenfranchised the poorest and most exploited sections of the working class.
