Category: Editorials
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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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Emerging Political Trends in the Trade Unions (2025)
With the announcement on January 8 that the Service Employees International Union would re-affiliate to the AFL-CIO before the beginning of the second Trump administration, the state unions in the US are more consolidated than ever. The supposed “new era of worker power” (SEIU President April Verrett) is to be… Read more
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Re-Publishing State Unionism in the US
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 served as a key part of the theoretical impetus and basis for the foundation of New Labor Press, and… Read more
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Compilation: NLP Selected Writings 2023-2024
For a long time now we at NLP have received requests from readers and supporters for some kind of compilation of our major works to make it easier to find, share and read our more major texts. Through the collaboration of these supporters and our editorial board we are happy… Read more
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The Importance of the Labor Question
Why is the Labor Question important for revolutionaries and class-conscious workers around the world, and especially important for revolutionaries and workers in countries like the United States? By “Labor Question” we mean the problem of elaborating a correct revolutionary position on a) the mass movement of the workers in their… Read more
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Revisionism and Organized Labor in the US
“Dialectical logic shows that the internal contradiction is primary. The external factor of imperialism’s influence in the labor movement becomes operative according to the development of the trade unions, which in turn hinges on the development of higher working-class leadership, the Communist Party. At every major turn in the labor… Read more
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In Defense of Marxist Principles
“As for their response to our strong condemnation of the coordinated factionalist attempt within organizations close to New Labor Press, The Worker and groupings who have published statements by proxy through the website Red Library have decried the entire scheme as an “invention” of ours and a “phantom plot”. New… Read more
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Political Economy of the American Labor Movement
In this article, we at New Labor Press are excited to present an initial attempt at outlining the broad central features of the current US labor movement. Building off our prior work, the text looks at total organization, revenue, assets, political connections, activity, internal features, structure, and other key points… Read more
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Analysis: Teamsters Complicit as Thousands of UPS Workers Laid Off
In March, less than a year after the Teamsters claimed it had “won a historic contract” with UPS, at a meeting with investors, in Louisville, Kentucky, UPS announced its plans to shut down over 200 facilities and conduct a mass layoff of tens of thousands of UPS workers over the… Read more
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