LABOR FIGHTBACK NETWORK Dear Sisters and Brothers: Every day that passes makes us more outraged: Close to 20,000 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed, countless others have been injured or disappeared, while 90% of the 2.1 million inhabitants of Gaza have been left without shelter, water, food or medical attention. We are watching genocide unfold before our very own eyes. The U.S. labor movement
Read morePosted on October 20, 2023 In this Labor Fightback Network (LFN) DOSSIER: • Urgent Appeal from the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions (PGFTU) • San Francisco Rally Speech by Monadel Herzallah (October 14) – • Palestinian Trade Unions Call for an End to Arming Israel * * * * * * * * * * Urgent Appeal from the Palestinian
Read more[The following Associated Press article is excerpted from the September 15 issue of The Philadelphia Inquirer. The AP article updates the longer Labor Fightback Network (LFN) piece that was written two days before the strike began. The LFN article is reprinted below.] September 16, 2023 – Nearly one in 10 of America’s unionized auto workers went on strike Friday, September 15. By striking simultaneously
Read moreUAW Workers Prepare to Strike as Contract Deadline Approaches; Entire Labor Movement Must Prepare to Mobilize in Support! By the Labor Fightback Network At this writing, the UAW is preparing actively for a strike that could begin at 11:59 pm on September 14. At a press conference on September 11, newly elected UAW President Shawn Fain stated that the Big
Read moreLabor Fightback Network calls on workers and people of conscience to join the growing voices for an end to U.S. military support for Ukraine to fight a proxy war with Russia. We demand an immediate, unconditional ceasefire, and a supervised withdrawal of all armies and mercenaries, the first and necessary step toward putting an end to this heinous war. US
Read moreNeither the U.S./NATO military build-up against Russia (and, more recently, against China), nor the canonization of Ukrainian President Zelensky and the Ukrainian fascists as “standard-bearers of democracy” can contribute to the ending of the Ukraine War and justice for all parties there. Only the action of the working-class, organized in the workplace and in the community, has the potential to
Read morePosted on October 15, 2021 Welcome to Striketober: Strike Wave Sweeps the U.S. By Millie Phillips It’s so big, it now has a nickname: Striketober. Throughout the pandemic, increasing numbers of U.S. workers are saying we’ve had enough: enough of low wages and lousy benefits or no benefits at all, enough of sky-high housing costs, enough of precarious gig work, enough
Read moreBy Millie Phillips There is simply no such thing as women’s rights without the right for women to control when and if we have children. Without this right, women cannot participate fully or equally in the workplace and cannot gain economic or legal equality with men. 49.5% of union members in the US are women, the highest percentage ever. When
Read moreCALL TO SUPPORT FLOC CAMPAIGN IN NORTH CAROLINAFLOC President Baldemar Velasquez Addresses Labor FightbackNetwork Conference in Cleveland, Denounces Corporate Attacks onFLOC in North Carolina and Calls for Support to Boycott of R.J. Reynolds “Vuse” Electronic Cigarette Speaking at the opening night session of the Third National Labor Fightback Conference in Cleve-land, Ohio, on July 21, Baldemar Velasquez, president of the
Read moreOn the Aftermath of Charlottesville, Virginia As was widely reported, white nationalists gathered on August 19 for a “Unite the Right” march in Charlottesville. The rally was organized in opposition to a plan by local officials to remove a statue of Robert E. Lee, the Confederacy’s top general, from Emancipation Park in Charlottesville. However, it is also clear that the
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