Two Contrasting Visions of the Labor Movement

The 38th Constitutional Convention of the United Auto Workers (UAW), held July 25-28, 2022 in Detroit, saw the most organized opposition to the rule of the Administration Caucus (AC) since the days of the New Directions caucus thirty years ago. It was also the first convention since the two most recent UAW presidents — Gary Jones and Dennis Williams — were convicted of embezzling union funds. Just a couple of days before the convention they were released from prison and will serve the...

One change in organizing for the opposition at the Convention this time was the use of a WhatsApp chat list during the proceedings. It was used so much it was hard to follow the chat and the proceedings. But it helped the delegates elected by Unite All Workers for Democracy ( UAWD ) to feel less isolated from each other on the convention floor. The floor is loaded with appointed reps who try to intimidate delegates.

At past conventions, everything was decided in advance by the Administration Caucus...

Workshop on Class Struggle Unionism

Joshua DeVries

The panel “Class Struggle Unionism” featured Joe Burns, author of the new book of the same title, Ryan Haney from the Dallas Teamsters, Krystal Gardner from AFSCME Council 31 in Illinois and Patrick Korte with Virginia CORE. Burns launched the session by drawing distinctions between the main school of labor unions, drawing attention to the fundamental difference in how they look at the employment relation. Business unionism holds high the motto,...

To be scrupulously fair to Joe Biden: No one who may have expected that Biden’s presidency would represent a new direction in U.S. policies toward Palestine or the region’s dictatorships can claim they were deceived — any such hopes were only self-delusion.

Nothing in his record, his rhetoric, or his endless political campaigns suggested any progressive content in Biden’s attitudes regarding the Middle East. Why would that somehow change after this veteran political hack was elevated to...

We, feminists from Ukraine, call on feminists around the world to stand in solidarity with the resistance movement of the Ukrainian people against the predatory, imperialist war unleashed by the Russian Federation. War narratives often portray women* as victims. However, in reality, women* also play a key role in resistance movements, both at the frontline and on the home front: from Algeria to Vietnam, from Syria to Palestine, from Kurdistan to Ukraine.

The authors of the  Feminist Resistance...

JUNE 24 — THE OFFICIAL overturn of Roe v. Wade was announced as this issue of ATC goes to press. It didn’t require a white-nationalist riot, invading the Capitol at the instigation of Donald Trump, to tear huge holes in long-established constitutional rights in the United States. Where that frontal assault failed, a flanking maneuver by the right wing has met with success — including a blatant pseudo-constitutional coup by Court.

The overturn of Roe v. Wade not...

Here is a dossier of reports from Solidarity supporters about abortion rights rallies across the country.

On June 12 and 19, 2022, France held elections for the 577 deputies of the Assemblée Nationale, its principal legislative body. President Emmanuel Macron lost his presidential majority, as the left and right surged.

Macron’s coalition — and its prime minister, currently Élisabeth Borne — may be able to continue to govern through a deal with the center-right Gaullists, but a minority government dependent on a hostile competitor would be weak. It would survive only as long as its backers feared...

I’ll provide a report on some elements of the crisis in higher education from a particular place and perspective while also making a few general comments from that same perspective. I am a professor of philosophy at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) where I have taught for 35 years.

Students here do not come from well-to-do families. Parental income for our students is roughly half that of the state’s flagship state university, University of Tennessee-Knoxville. Republicans hold a super-majority...

The struggle for the emancipation of women in Mexico has been a long and difficult journey, full of obstacles — ideological, cultural, religious, legal. Reproductive rights are no exception. Many religious, medical, political, cultural and other institutions seek to impose all kinds of rules on us without taking into account our most basic right to decide about our own bodies. Abortion had been illegal in Mexico since the enactment of criminal codes in 1871, 1929 and 1931, in addition to the...