USA: "Striketober", An Unprecedented Wave of Strikes

Regions: 
United States of America
Facts: 
Workers' conditions and struggles
Publications: 
Documents

The United States has experienced a wave of strikes on a scale rarely seen since 1968. All over the country, workers, exhausted by the Covid-19 pandemic, are demanding improvements in their working conditions. Driven by the rise in the cost of living, these thousands of workers are putting pressure on their bosses to grant them wage increases. This encompasses every sector of the economy.

Letter From a Striking Oil Worker in Iran

History: 
2021: Iran Oil Workers' Strike
Publications: 
Documents

Below is a brief note from a striking worker, Mahmoud from Assaluyeh. Not only is it a good illustration of how the leading strikers in Iran today are thinking and how their discussions are shaping up, it also gives us an insight into the potential of the working class movement when we see how far the workers have advanced.

Cuba: The Real Fight Against State Repression Begins with Workers' Self-Organization

Regions: 
Caribbean
Facts: 
Social unrest
Publications: 
Documents

Political events in Cuba since the July 11 protests · Currently the political and social climate within Cuba is bleak. On July 11 of this year there were turbulent protests against the government which saw the latter employ all its repressive muscle and issue a call, out of sheer desperation, to its own supporters through national radio and television to join its armed thugs on the streets in...

Working Class Revolution is the Only Solution

Basics: 
Proletarian revolution
Facts: 
Workers' conditions and struggles
Publications: 
Aurora (en)

Despite all the talk about ‘humanity’ as a whole being responsible for climate change, the world is class-divided. Inevitably, the ‘carbon footprint’ of the rich folk at the top of each national pyramid is far larger than the rest of the population. In the US emissions from the richest 10% of households are more than five times bigger than the whole of the bottom 50%! (It’s the same ratio for the...

Global War: The Other Existential Threat

Politics: 
No War But The Class War
Basics: 
Imperialism
Facts: 
Conflicts
Publications: 
Aurora (en)

Climate change is only one of many threats to our future. Life is already hell for millions trying to survive on low wages or no wages at all, who face both environmental degradation and wars over dwindling basic resources. Imperialist powers stoke these into devastating conflicts which force millions to become refugees, kicked from pillar to post, often dying in their search for a secure...

Report from the Kellogg's Workers Strike

Politics: 
Unionism
Regions: 
United States of America
Facts: 
Activities
Workers' conditions and struggles
Publications: 
Documents

Since October 4, 1,400 workers at the four Kellogg’s plants in the United States have been on strike in response to a two-tier wage system and the company’s efforts to permanently classify workers out of receiving better wages and benefits. The IWG has been able to intervene at the strike at the Lancaster plant several times over the last month, distributing leaflets and collecting information...

Save the Planet - Destroy Capitalism!

Politics: 
Environmentalism
Facts: 
Disasters
Environment and resources
Publications: 
Aurora (en)

UN Climate Conferences have been going on for 25 years. They have achieved precisely nothing. The participants at Paris in 2015 agreed to decrease production of oil, gas and coal by 6% a year for the next decade. Instead, according to the UN itself, they are planning increases of 2% annually, even as carbon emissions continue to mount.

The Struggle of the Iranian Oil Workers Goes On

Regions: 
Middle East
History: 
2021: Iran Oil Workers' Strike
Facts: 
Workers' conditions and struggles
Publications: 
Documents

A Little Background · As we report on the continuing struggle of oil workers in Iran it is worth reminding our readers of their wider context. The whole working class in Iran is currently facing a double whammy of a crisis: a combination of Covid-19 and severe economic crisis, only partially the consequence of the US economic embargo.

Global Warming: IPPC Report AR6 - Writing a Death Warrant?

Politics: 
Environmentalism
Facts: 
Disasters
Energy, oil and fuels
Environment and resources
Publications: 
Documents

The United Nations International Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) published its sixth Assessment Report (AR6) in August. This is a reworked and an updated version of their last report AR5 published in 2013. It is much more confident in its assessments and its summary for policy makers is clearly intended to shock countries into promising drastic reductions in their emissions of Green House Gases...

After the German Elections

Regions: 
Central Europe
Facts: 
Elections and polls
Publications: 
Documents

The article which follows was written before the German elections last month. The German lower house of parliament (Bundestag) reopened today but Germany still awaits a new government. One thing seems clear though. After 16 years of “Mutti” (Angela Merkel) another capitalist coalition will be pieced together as in the past.

Covid Capitalism is Still Killing Workers Across the World

Regions: 
Northern America
History: 
2020: COVID-19 Pandemic
Facts: 
Workers' conditions and struggles
Publications: 
1919

(Article from 1919 #2 ( the journal of the North American affiliates of the ICT.) · Over the previous year and a half, the working class across the world has been subject to an extreme intensification of their exploitation and the degradation of their living conditions. Already suffering from a renewed series of attacks by the capitalists to expand their profit margins going all the way back to...

Agricultural Migrant Workers During Pandemic Capitalism

Regions: 
Northern America
History: 
2020: COVID-19 Pandemic
Facts: 
Food
Migrations
Workers' conditions and struggles
Publications: 
1919

(Article from 1919 #2 ( the journal of the North American affiliates of the ICT.) · There has been an ongoing shortage in labor for agriculture and adjacent industries, such as food processing, tourism and hospitality. All of these industries have a dependence on the labor of seasonal migrant workers. This issue was already trending in 2019 before the outbreak of Covid-19 but has been exacerbated...

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