By: A Worker in the US South If the National Labor Relations Act was the “carrot” for state unionism in the US, the Taft-Hartley Act, passed in 1947, was the stick.… Read More
With this post we are simply re-publishing the piece State Unionism in the US, originally written by the Southern New England Labor Council (SNELC) back in early Fall 2023. This piece… Read More
This is a public announcement of the formation of the New Labor Organizing Committee. This is a committee for coordinating the work of different labor organizations. The founding organizations are the… Read More

We at NLP are excited to present two previously untranslated documents from the Centro de Autoeducación Obrera – José Carlos Mariátegui. The Centro de Autoeducación Obrera – José Carlos Mariátegui (Workers’… Read More
“Power is the only language Washington understands” – Postal Worker, March 1970 Nearly fifty-five years ago, a strike that started as just 30 rank-and-file postal workers picketing outside Grand Central Station… Read More
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“The basic rule, the first commandment, of any trade union movement is
not to rely on the “state” but to rely only on the strength of one’s own class.”
– Vladimir Lenin