New Labor Press and the New Labor Organizing Committee are very excited to present the first edition of the NLOC’s biannual newsletter Labor Storm. The publication covers reports on the social investigation, class analysis and practical work of the current five shop organization affiliates of NLOC over the least several months. In addition there is a budding international correspondence section which includes a few articles from our Vietnamese comrades at Serve the People/Vì Dân Phục Vụ.

Each shop organization’s contribution generally includes three basic sections on their shops or enterprises: 1) the objective factors (profit, rate of exploitation, composition, division of labor, etc.) 2) the subjective factors (worker consciousness, state union/independent union history, common grievances, etc.), and 3) a brief summary/highlights from the current class-conscious organizing work.

We hope comrades nationally and internationally find this first edition useful for study, that it provides inspiration and ideas for the many worker comrades who are supportive of or in contact with NLOC and the class-conscious labor movement, and that those comrades reach out to NLOC and NLP for their thoughts and feedback. In publishing this we highlight the tireless energy of our co-workers and worker comrades who make things like this edition and the broader organizing work of NLOC and NLP possible; as William Dunne wrote in his text Workers Correspondents:

“Worker correspondents of the Communist press are not only mirrors in which the class conflicts are reflected, but hammers by whose blows these conflicts are welded into one battle line. Their writings must build ‘The iron battalions of the proletariat.’

They secure their information while engaged in the tasks that capitalism allots them. Their stories for the most part are written after the day’s toil when both body and mind are tired. Often they must make special journeys to get additional facts.

But they can and should write with the hot breath of the struggle still upon them. Sometimes it will seem to them that they are writing with their own blood.”

To read the Spring 2025 edition of Labor Storm, please click here.