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  • Translated Statements: Three Texts from Latin America

    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, and Mexico, respectively, we felt… Read more

  • False Theories False Leaders: MCU in the Labor Movement

    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 criticism throughout the entire process.… Read more

  • Statement: Commemorate May 1st with Struggle

    Statement: Commemorate May 1st with Struggle

    While there are many important dates and commemorations for revolutionary workers, May 1st in particular holds profound importance not only for workers in the United States, but workers across the globe. Celebrated as International Workers Day, the date was chosen to commemorate the Haymarket Massacre, when police right here in the US, in Chicago, opened… Read more

  • A Workers’ Guide to Trotskyism

    A Workers’ Guide to Trotskyism

    There are people promoting ideas of all sorts in the labor movement. By far the dominant ideology is labor-liberalism: all the state unions spend massive amounts of money and man-hours on the Democratic Party and take up jobs in the government and party. The second most prominent ideology is Trotskyism—it is the Trotskyists who established… Read more

  • Report – Conditions at Charlotte Factory

    Report – Conditions at Charlotte Factory

    A bakery worker at a Snyder’s-Lance (a subsidiary of the Campbell Soup Company) manufacturing plant in Charlotte, North Carolina spoke this week with a representative of the New Labor Press (NLP) about conditions inside the facility. The worker revealed the shockingly unsafe working conditions which have resulted in injuries including broken bones, severed fingers, and… Read more

  • Our History: The Loray Mill Strike

    Our History: The Loray Mill Strike

    Ninety-five years ago, the American textile industry was shaken to its core as workers at Loray Mill, the largest textile mill in the entire world, went on strike. On April 1st, 1929, close to two thousand workers, led by the National Textile Workers Union (NTWU), a Communist-led union part of the Trade Union Unity League… Read more