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A Worker’s Guide to: Canvassing
Canvassing is a basic tool for any organization seeking to expand its membership. Labor unions, political parties, non-profits, and even social clubs canvas. Canvassing just means systematically soliciting people for their opinions or support, generally in a public place or in a residential area. It can be utilized at any point in an organizing campaign… Read more
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Problems of Labor Law
The most popular misconception in the American labor movement is the idea that the working class can make real gains within the framework of the legal system. This misconception hinges on ignorance of how the official channels actually operate. For decades, the state unions have focused all of their work on maneuvering within the legal… Read more
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New Labor: What It Is, and What It Isn’t
Since the founding of New Labor Press (NLP) in 2023, the political reach of New Labor has grown from a handful of workers in Massachusetts and Rhode Island to a wide network spanning coast to coast that is united by a single organization, the New Labor Organizing Committee (NLOC). As the work of NLP and… Read more
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NLOC Statement on May Day 2026
On May 1, 1886, hundreds of thousands of workers in the US went on strike or walked off the job in support of the eight hour day. A few days later, at Haymarket Square in Chicago, a rally was held in support of the eight hour day. The rally ended in violence when an unknown… Read more
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First as Tragedy, Then as Farce: the Minneapolis General Strike
In The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, Marx said, “All great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice… The first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.” The Minneapolis-Saint-Paul metropolitan area, as a hub of industrial and logistical work, has been an important site of struggle for the labor movement in the… Read more
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The Proletariat and Class Forces in the United States
“During the course of almost forty years we have stressed the class struggle as the immediate driving force in history, especially the class struggle between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat, as the powerful lever of the modern social transformation: therefore we cannot go hand in hand with people who want to delete this class struggle… Read more
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