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Our History: 1928 RILU Resolutions on Fascism, the US, and Women’s Work in Labor
NLP is happy to present a transcription of four resolutions taken from the Report of the Fourth Congress of the Red International of Labor Unions (RILU) published in July, 1928. The resolutions cover the topics of the trade union movement in the USA, fascism in the trade union movement, the trade union press, and women… Read more
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A Worker’s Guide to: Shop Organizing
NLP is happy to present its most comprehensive and complete guide to date: our Shop Organizing Guide. In addition to replacing our earlier “Shop Unit Guide”, which was one of our first works and because of that had a few limitations (such an imprecise use of the term “unit”), the new Shop Organizing Guide also… Read more
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Emerging Political Trends in the Trade Unions (2025)
With the announcement on January 8 that the Service Employees International Union would re-affiliate to the AFL-CIO before the beginning of the second Trump administration, the state unions in the US are more consolidated than ever. The supposed “new era of worker power” (SEIU President April Verrett) is to be built on the basis of… Read more
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Report: On Right-to-Work Laws and State Unions
By: A Worker in the US South If the National Labor Relations Act was the “carrot” for state unionism in the US, the Taft-Hartley Act, passed in 1947, was the stick. It aimed to put limits on the legally-recognized powers of the state unions; included in the act was the right for states to pass… Read more
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Re-Publishing State Unionism in the US
With this post we are simply re-publishing the piece State Unionism in the US, originally written by the Southern New England Labor Council (SNELC) back in early Fall 2023. This piece served as a key part of the theoretical impetus and basis for the foundation of New Labor Press, and now the New Labor Organizing… Read more
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Statement: Introduction to the New Labor Organizing Committee (NLOC)
This is a public announcement of the formation of the New Labor Organizing Committee. This is a committee for coordinating the work of different labor organizations. The founding organizations are the following: New Day at UPS, New Day at Amazon, Organization of Class-Conscious Service Workers (aka The Service Worker, the organization’s shop paper), Strike the… Read more
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