Impeachment and Imperialism

The undersigned trade union organizations announce that the world of labor has articulated, organized, and placed its will toward unity, over and above the concerns of any particular organization, in order to support the demands that the Chilean people have put forward in the streets during recent weeks.

On September 16, 2019, forty-six thousand defiant General Motors (GM) workers streamed out on strike. This eruption of long-festering worker anger and frustrations was directed not only at a corporation that had treated its workforce so shabbily, but also at the often-complicit role of their own union. The strike call came from the UAW ’s top officers, but it was clearly the rank-and-file who were in the lead. Nothing GM was ready to offer before the strike could have met the workers’ goals,...

Bolivians went to the polls on Sunday, October 20, 2019. According to the country’s electoral system, in order to avoid a second round in presidential elections the leading candidate must secure 51 percent of the vote, or more than 40 percent of the vote and a lead of 10 percent over the second place candidate.

With 83.8 percent of the quick-count votes verified, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal’s website indicated that Evo Morales of the Movement Toward Socialism was leading with 45.3 percent,...

Forward to the General Strike for the Constituent Assembly

The undersigned trade union organizations have come together in a historical meeting whose purpose was to show unity in the face of the indolence and unwillingness of the government, business and parliament to listen to, pay attention to, and act on the demands the Chilean people have expressed in the streets in recent days.

In this context, we set as our strategic objective the drafting of a New Constitution that allows establishing...

On October 21, 2019, Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party was re-elected in Canada, but this time with a minority government. In Canada’s parliamentary system, the Prime Minister is not elected directly, as the President is in the U.S. The party with a majority of seats in the House of Commons forms the government, and the head of that party becomes Prime Minister. If a majority is not achieved, the Prime Minister’s party is given the opportunity to form a minority government. They would need to...

The publication of the Supreme Court ruling last Monday 14 October, after the trial of several independence leaders, has triggered a wave of protests in Catalonia and, to a lesser extent, in other regions of the Spanish state and even in some European cities.

The sentence of 12 pro-independence social and political leaders, nine of them to prison sentences of between 9 and 13 years, is perceived as a collective punishment of an entire people who dared to confront the political regime of the post-Franco...

This article, published in 1963 by the Israeli revolutionary socialist group Matzpen,  was authored by one of its founders, the Palestinian Marxist Jabra Nicola. At the time the article was written, Iraq was in the midst of a sequence of violent upheavals and military coups that would ultimately result in the ascendance of Saddam Hussein.

Obviously much has changed in the Middle East over the subsequent 56 years, but the longstanding importance of the Kurdish struggle for self-determination puts...

Inequality continues — Concessions remain!

We fought for the things that matter to us. We went on strike and supported our sisters and brothers who went on strike! We made it loud and clear that we wanted everyone made whole. Instead a hole was left in our solidarity. Everyone Tier One! Let’s look at the facts. The complete contract (“White Book”) is here . The Solidarity House Contract “Highlights” are here . References are to the white book unless otherwise stated.

Everyone...

In 2012 the Chicago Teachers Union woke up union members and educators across the country with a winning strike. Seven years later, after a wave of teacher strikes in the last two years, CTU is at it again. 

As educators walk out today, a lot feels like 2012. The strike authorization vote was high (94 percent) and the mayor is disparaging their demands and branding the strike as hurtful to children. 

This time the union has extended its demands: it wants to tackle student homelessness...