By Sandy Eaton, RN, Labor Fightback Network December 2, 2022 The basic contradiction within the House of Labor was starkly revealed today as US President Joe Biden visited Boston’s diverse working-class section of Dorchester, home base of US Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh, former building trades leader and Boston politician. An estimated 200 workers and pro-labor demonstrators greeted Biden’s afternoon
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
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(March 8, 2022) On Sunday, March 6, thousands of activists gathered in the streets across the United States — and across the globe – in response to the call for an antiwar March 6 Global Day of Action by an international coalition initiated by Stop the War Coalition (UK), the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, and the No to NATO network. The call
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 moreStatement by Labor Fightback Network If Gaza was declared unlivable in 2020, how can one describe it today? The sea is filled with sewage due to water filtration systems having been decimated by repeated Israeli bombings. Hospitals and schools are barely operating for lack of clean water, electricity, infrastructure and funding. The recent Israeli attacks on Gaza have targeted the entire population of 2 million Palestinians confined to a 140
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By the Labor Fightback Network The Labor Fightback Network condemns the Israeli military blockade and recent attacks on Gaza. We stand in solidarity with protestors across the globe who demand: “Stop the Massacre of the Palestinian People!” We condemn the U.S. political and financial support to the State of Israel — $3.8 billion per year in armaments alone. On May
Read moreAll Out August 16 to Cancel NAFTA, Tear Down the Wall of Shame, and Support Farm Workers in San Quintin (Baja California, Mexico) and North Carolina! Dear Sisters and Brothers, At the Third Labor Fightback Conference held in Cleveland, Ohio, on July 21-23, the participants agreed to promote a multi-pronged campaign to Cancel NAFTA, Tear Down the Wall of Shame/No More Deportations,
Read moreIf We Want to Stop Washington’s Wars, We Have a Lot of Work to Do T The second week of August is a time when peace activists throughout the United States pause to remember the holocaust that our own country visited upon the people of Japan in 1945. It is the right thing to do, to stop and reflect on
Read moreOctober 11, 2017 Attention:Antonio CorderoVenezuelan Consul General in San Francisco1700 California Street, Suite 420San Francisco, CA 94108(Email: ven.sanfrancisco@gmail.com) Dear Consul General Cordero, On October 7, labor and antiwar activists from across the San Francisco Bay Area came together at a “U.S. Out Now!” public forum that was sponsored by the United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) and held at the Niebyl Proctor
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