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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
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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 of the working class to… Read more
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Our History: The Needle Trades Workers
As part of New Labor Press’s goal of highlighting and educating revolutionary workers and sympathetic activists on the history of our class’ struggles, and in honor of International Working Women’s Day, we wanted to share with you all a brief overview and summary of the incredibly important, but now almost totally forgotten, history of the… Read more
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Why Peru? – Maoism and the American Labor Movement
The reactionary, revisionist, and rightist opponents of the New Labor Press and similar organizations wail on and on about “Gonzaloites”, “outside agitators”, “antifa”, “Stalinists”, “sectarians”, and other red boogeymen in the labor movement. This red-baiting and fear-mongering is a plain admission, an act of demarcation, by these groups that they have zero interest in principled… Read more
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Testimony: Real and False Trade Unionism at UPS
By: A New Dayer I am 26 years old, I have worked at UPS since I was 18, which means I’ve been a Teamster for basically my entire adult life. I consider myself a real student of UPS and the Teamster rank-and-file. The amount of time I spend reading about UPS—from quarterly reports to labor-liberal… Read more
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A Workers’ Intro to Distributing Shop Papers
The point of the shop paper is to get everyone in the existing or future bargaining unit on the same page theoretically and politically, in particular regarding the relationship between the workers, the owners/employers, their agents in the labor movement (the corporate/government/state unions), and the collective actions that need to be taken due to these… Read more
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