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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Factionalism in the Labor Movement: Real and Imaginary Obstacles to Unity
When a worker becomes convinced of the need to organize, the first question they usually ask themselves is, “What organization should I work with?” In the US, there are numerous establishment state unions, and generally, each state union has at least two major caucuses within it that are responsible for the bulk of union literature,… Read more
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