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After Weekend Walkouts, US Hotel Worker Strikes Grow on Labor Day
"We refuse to accept wages that can't support our families. It's insulting. And it ends now." Image via Unite Here in X By Jessica...
Michael Laxer
Sep 2, 20244 min read
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With Media Enamored by US Presidential Race, Israeli Massacres in Gaza Get Even Deadlier
"We must not lose sight of what is happening in Gaza, where an unprecedented humanitarian crisis continues to get even worse" Scene of...
Michael Laxer
Jul 16, 20243 min read
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'Total Unchecked Impunity': Netanyahu Plots Illegal Settlement Expansion in West Bank
"The right-wing, extremist Netanyahu government is not only breaking international law in Gaza, they are doing the same in the West Bank,...
Michael Laxer
Jun 17, 20243 min read
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Amid Cease-Fire Talk, Israel's Siege Still Causing Child Starvation in Gaza
"Blocking humanitarian aid and creating the conditions for famine is not only an act of extreme cruelty—using starvation as an act of...
Michael Laxer
Jun 13, 20243 min read
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'Level the Place,' Declares Lindsey Graham as Israel Does Exactly That to Gaza
One critic called the South Carolina Republican's comment nothing short of "incitement to genocide." By Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams...
Michael Laxer
Oct 12, 20233 min read
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UAW Strike Puts Massive CEO-Worker Pay Gap in the Spotlight
"The CEOs gave themselves 40% pay increases in the last four years alone," United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain said from the picket...
Michael Laxer
Sep 16, 20233 min read
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'This Is Our Defining Moment': UAW Launches Historic Strikes Against Big Three Automakers
"The money is there, the cause is righteous, the world is watching, and the UAW is ready to stand up," said Shawn Fain, the union's...
Michael Laxer
Sep 15, 20233 min read
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Potential Auto Strike Is a Key Fight for Establishing a People’s Economy
Meeting UAW’s demands would be a win-win for the climate and for workers’ rights. So, what’s stopping the Big Three from acquiescing? By...
Michael Laxer
Sep 12, 20235 min read
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Celebration and solidarity greet historic Amazon union win in New York
Chris Smalls speaks In a huge win for Amazon workers in the United States and US workers generally, workers at Amazon’s massive warehouse...
Michael Laxer
Apr 1, 20221 min read
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The Keystone Koup and the whiff of Weimar: Reflections on a very American Fascist dress rehearsal
The failed fascist Koup on Jan. 6th, 2021 has quickly become Myth to liberal and conservative regressives as well as the increasingly...
Michael Laxer
Jan 6, 20226 min read
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Red Review #36 -- International Left and Labour News
The thirty-sixth edition of our weekly review of international left and labour news with stories from Cuba, India, the USA, the...
Michael Laxer
Dec 19, 20219 min read
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The People's Party registers in Oregon, gains endorsement of Railroad Workers United
"Working people in the United States need a political party of their own that is not beholden to big money." The Movement for a People's...
Michael Laxer
Apr 28, 20212 min read
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Leftist People's Party registers in Colorado and California
People's Party activists register the party in Colorado. Image via People's Party The Movement for a People's Party that grew out of the...
Michael Laxer
Feb 5, 20211 min read
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The streets will not push Biden left, only an organized Left party will do that
What many progressives and leftists seem to fail to understand is that fascism in the US is a process more than an ideology and the...
Michael Laxer
Nov 7, 20203 min read
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The Worst Show on Earth—The 2020 Yankee Election Circus is a Strictly Rightwing Affair
By Gabriel Haythornthwaite The fury on what passes for a Left in the US has produced a lot of mystifying smoke but little in the way of...
Michael Laxer
Nov 3, 20204 min read
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