Category: Editorials
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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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For a Class Line in the Student Movement
With this publication, New Labor Press makes an intervention into the ongoing struggle over the significance and tasks of the university Palestinian encampment movement by criticizing the recent article Center Palestine by Centering Revolution and presenting our own series of analyses and proposals as a “correction” to the line presented… Read more
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Translated Statements: Three Texts from Latin America
(Photo credit – Nueva Democracia) We at New Labor Press are glad to present a PDF containing our own translations of three important May Day statements and editorials from Latin American comrades we feel are very much worth highlighting and studying. Originally written by revolutionary proletarian organizations in Colombia, Ecuador,… Read more
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False Theories False Leaders: MCU in the Labor Movement
Criticism is a powerful tool for revolutionaries. It demarcates the correct from the incorrect, the true from the untrue. It highlights errors, and if done well, lays out for its audience the correct alternative position. As Marxists, we know there can be no real unity-struggle-unity without the scientific use of… Read more
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Guest Article: Race Traitor – White Workers and Organizing Against White Supremacy
by The Crusader Editorial Board1 [Editor’s Note: We are happy to re-publish the following article, originally published last week in the new publication, The Crusader, which describes itself as a “paper [that] serves to combat the dispersal of forces among revolutionaries and to mainly recruit and propagate the revolutionary ideology… Read more
