Category: History
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Our History: The Sino-Soviet Split in the Labor Movement
“Unity, struggle or even splits, and a new unity on a new basis — such is the dialectics of the development of the international working-class movement… Anyone who follows a programme and line running counter to the revolutionary will and fundamental interests of the proletariat and the working people is… Read more
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Our History: When Detroit Struck for Palestine
Two years ago, the combined might of the forces for Palestinian national liberation in Gaza launched a heroic counteroffensive against the Israeli occupation forces. Since then, the state of Israel, with the backing of the ruling class of the West, has intensified its genocidal campaign against the Palestinian people. In… Read more
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Black August 2025
It is not a coincidence that the same people who have an incorrect position on the National question almost always also end up having an incorrect view of the Labor question as well, and vice versa. For example, it was the same false “leaders” who betrayed the 1928 and 1930… Read more
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Our History: On the Clasista Labor Movement (Part 1)
In the 1960s and 1970s, across the globe, trade unions had already begun a process of decline that would rapidly pick up over the next few decades. In the United States and many other industrialized countries, the establishment labor movement had been thoroughly purged of opponents of American Imperialism through… Read more
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Our History: League of Revolutionary Black Workers
This month 56 years ago, June 1969, the League of Revolutionary Black Workers was formed in Detroit, Michigan. The League was an independent, combative revolutionary Marxist labor organization that, while existing for only a handful of years, was able to organize thousands of workers in Detroit, in particular New Afrikan/Black… Read more
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Our History: Haymarket 1886 and the Origins of May Day
“Comrade workers! May Day is coming, the day when the workers of all lands celebrate their awakening to a class-conscious life, their solidarity in the struggle against all coercion and oppression of man by man, the struggle to free the toiling millions from hunger, poverty, and humiliation. Two worlds stand… Read more
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Our History: 1928 RILU Resolutions on Fascism, the US, and Women’s Work in Labor
NLP is happy to present a transcription of four resolutions taken from the Report of the Fourth Congress of the Red International of Labor Unions (RILU) published in July, 1928. The resolutions cover the topics of the trade union movement in the USA, fascism in the trade union movement, the… Read more
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Translation: Two Documents from the Centro de Autoeducación Obrera – José Carlos Mariátegui
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’ Self-Education Center – José Carlos Mariátegui), was a generated organism of the Communist Party of Peru during the 1970s-1990s… Read more
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Our History: The 1970 Postal Workers Wildcat Strike
“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 Post Office in Manhattan, New York, would transform over the course of eight days into the largest wildcat strike… Read more
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Our History: NASSCO 1980 and the Failure of Boring from Within
Through the 1960s and 70s, a wave of new revolutionary organizations were formed in the United States in what came to be known as the New Communist Movement. These parties and organizations held a plethora of different lines and ideologies. Through the theoretical and practical work these organizations engaged in… Read more
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