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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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For Marxism and Against Centrism on the Labor Question
We are glad to finally present this response to recent criticism of, and commentary on, the State Unionism Line. We hope this piece helps serve the broader two-line struggle within the revolutionary camp, and helps revolutionaries (and particularly revolutionary workers) find their bearings and stance on what our tasks as revolutionaries are in the labor… Read more
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A Worker’s Intro to Writing Articles
In the course of their work, every shop unit will find itself in need of some kind of publication. Whether it is a single sheet that can be easily distributed throughout a large warehouse or a trimesterly zine for educators, every labor organization needs a central organ for disseminating information about conditions, proposing plans for… Read more
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DSA: Bourgeois Center in the Labor Movement
We are happy to publish this long-form editorial, which serves as a more polemical companion piece to our State Unionism in the U.S. position paper and Draft Shop Unit Guide. This article, which can be accessed here, analyzes the opportunist role the largest “left-wing” organization in our country, the Democratic Socialists of America, plays in… Read more
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Testimony: My Time as a UFCW Union Steward
By Disillusioned Former Rep I first became a union steward under UFCW in early 2022 after working at the store for about 8 years up to that point, in an initiative that I and several other comrades in our city had in getting more involved with the US labor movement as an initial attempt to… Read more
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