Articles

  • Starbucks Strike Committee Platform

    Starbucks Strike Committee Platform

    Editor’s Note – Given the upcoming strike, we at New Labor Press are re-publishing this article by the Organization of Class-conscious Service Workers (OCSW) which contains the class-conscious workers’ strike committee platform and sharp analysis of the context and strike strategy pursued by Starbucks Workers United’s current state union-aligned leadership. The original article, as well… Read more

  • Labor and Fascistization

    Labor and Fascistization

    When we workers try to understand the current establishment labor movement, try to understand why even with historically unpopular Democratic Party and a second Trump administration in the White House major labor unions are seemingly unable or unwillingly to put up a fight and break with the practice of depending on government support for their… Read more

  • Our History: The Sino-Soviet Split in the Labor Movement

    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 a splitter.”1 The labor movement… Read more

  • Our History: When Detroit Struck for Palestine

    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 the typical imperialist fashion of… Read more

  • A Critique of the Industrial Workers of the World

    A Critique of the Industrial Workers of the World

    Throughout the entire history of the American labor movement, there have been numerous attempts to construct independent, class-conscious trade unions. The New Labor Organizing Committee happens to be the most recent; however, the Industrial Workers of the World predates it by over a century. Because of this, and the IWW’s prestige and influence among a… Read more

  • Black August 2025

    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 Comintern resolutions on the Black… Read more