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  • Testimony: Building a Combative Class-Conscious Labor Organization in the South

    Testimony: Building a Combative Class-Conscious Labor Organization in the South

    By Eugene Watts This testimony comes from one individual within the Working People’s Association and does not reflect the unity of the organization. The Working People’s Association of Charlotte (WPA) was formed almost two years ago, born from the ashes of previous revolutionary organizations in the city and a wave of new activists and young… Read more

  • A Worker’s Guide to: Theoretical Publications

    A Worker’s Guide to: Theoretical Publications

    “There is a prevailing theoretical poverty within the US revolutionary movement on a wide variety of subjects (party reconstitution, national question, women’s question, LGBT question, labor question, etc.), in large part due to the extensive and damaging legacy of revisionism within the US movement. It was our country, mostly due to the central role our… Read more

  • Report: The Collusion Behind the Tentative Agreements in Hollywood

    Report: The Collusion Behind the Tentative Agreements in Hollywood

    by Fiona Wrench (PGH) [Editor’s note: We are excited to publish this excellent report from a contact on the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees’ (IATSE or IA) recent sell-out tentative agreements. The report comes from the shop paper “Strike The Stage”. For those working under IATSE jurisdictions who are interested in reaching out, or… Read more

  • On Renegades and Revolutionaries

    On Renegades and Revolutionaries

    “Lin Piao, bourgeois careerist and conspirator, was the greatest splitter in our Party. In order to implement his revisionist line and counter-revolutionary political principles, and to oppose the proletarian revolutionary political principles of Chairman Mao, he, more than anyone else, recruited fanatics into the organisation, formed sects, encouraged the counter-revolutionary forces, organised a bourgeois headquarters… Read more

  • Political Economy of the American Labor Movement

    Political Economy of the American Labor Movement

    In this article, we at New Labor Press are excited to present an initial attempt at outlining the broad central features of the current US labor movement. Building off our prior work, the text looks at total organization, revenue, assets, political connections, activity, internal features, structure, and other key points of analysis for understanding the… Read more

  • Analysis: Teamsters Complicit as Thousands of UPS Workers Laid Off

    Analysis: Teamsters Complicit as Thousands of UPS Workers Laid Off

    In March, less than a year after the Teamsters claimed it had “won a historic contract” with UPS, at a meeting with investors, in Louisville, Kentucky, UPS announced its plans to shut down over 200 facilities and conduct a mass layoff of tens of thousands of UPS workers over the next four years in what… Read more