Category: Editorials
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Labor Storm – Edition #2
New Labor Press is happy to publish the second edition of Labor Storm, the biannual newsletter of the New Labor Organizing Committee (NLOC). For the second edition, in addition to updates on the work of the NLOC-affiliated workers’ shop organizations, there is also a section that presents the work ofthe… Read more
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Palestine Solidarity and the Labor Movement
By Michiana Friends of Palestine and New Labor Press Since Operation Al-Aqsa Flood on October 7, 2023, the Palestine solidarity movement has entered a new phase of energy and action. In the U.S., the most prominent actions of the Palestine solidarity movement have been within the student sector, with the… Read more
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Labor and Fascistization
When we workers try to understand the current establishment labor movement, try to understand why even with historically unpopular Democratic Party and a second Trump administration in the White House major labor unions are seemingly unable or unwillingly to put up a fight and break with the practice of depending… Read more
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A Critique of the Industrial Workers of the World
Throughout the entire history of the American labor movement, there have been numerous attempts to construct independent, class-conscious trade unions. The New Labor Organizing Committee happens to be the most recent; however, the Industrial Workers of the World predates it by over a century. Because of this, and the IWW’s… Read more
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Factionalism in the Labor Movement: Real and Imaginary Obstacles to Unity
When a worker becomes convinced of the need to organize, the first question they usually ask themselves is, “What organization should I work with?” In the US, there are numerous establishment state unions, and generally, each state union has at least two major caucuses within it that are responsible for… Read more
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The Role of IATSE in the Live Entertainment Industry (Part Two):The Origins of Organized Labor On Stage and In the Studios
We are happy to re-publish this excellent extended version of the lead article in Strike the Stage’s 7th edition. The July 2025 article continues the work of the June Edition in outlining and analyzing the history and role of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) in the entertainment… Read more
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Against Contemporary Economism
In the course of the class struggle, on the historic scale, certain ideas crop up again and again. This is because ideas are products of people who belong to classes with their own world outlook, and while material conditions evolve over time, the fundamental laws of social development stay the… Read more
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Outline for a Class-Conscious Educators Movement
Educational workers have traditionally been one of the most active and energetic sectors in revolutionary and progressive struggles throughout the history of capitalism. From Latin America to Africa, China to the Soviet Union, educators have been over-represented in the ranks of revolutionaries compared to other petty bourgeois professions for a… Read more
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Basic Theses: The Trump Administration and Its Implications for Revolutionary Labor
[Image – Teamsters president Sean O’Brien with President Trump and Republican congresswomen Lori Chavez-DeRemer] Due in part by the Trump administration’s deliberate “flood the zone” strategy, and in part by the general theoretical underdevelopment of the US revolutionary movement, there is very little correct understanding of what Donald Trump and… Read more
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The Starbucks Strike Shatters Illusions in the Labor Movement
On March 11, Starbucks locations in Pittsburgh, Seattle, Chicago, New York, Saint Louis, and Eaton were struck. Many other locations saw a “sip-in”, essentially union members or supporters order coffee with a pro-union nickname or otherwise be present in the Starbucks with some kind of show of support for the… Read more
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