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labor movement

Socialist Action and YSA are partisans of the working class, and therefore are very active in the labor movement. We believe in working within the existing unions to try and win them to a class struggle program. We call for the labor movement to break from the Democratic Party and form a labor party, uphold the principle of an injury to one is an injury to all, fight for the labor movement to adopt an internationalist perspective, to organize the unorganized, and to honor and deepen rank and file control of the unions.

We’ve set up this page to report on developments in the labor movement, post articles on the lessons of past labor struggles, and explain the role that Marxists believe the working class will play in the coming revolution! We welcome your feedback.

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AFL-CIO/Labor Movement as a Whole:
The Lessons of the Million Worker March
Labor Needs an Organized Left Wing
Support the Million Worker March!
A Balance Sheet on the Fight Over Steel Tariffs
Worst Job Crisis Since the Great Depression
Organized Labor's Antiwar Forces, What Next?
Sweeny Scabs on the Anti-War Movement
Why the AFL-CIO Lost the China Trade Vote

United Food & Commerical Workers:
Bitter Defeat 4 Grocery Workers
interview with UFCW solidarity activists
Union Misleaders’ Strategy Undermines Grocery Strike
Are West Coast Grocery Workers Boxed In?

Transit Workers:
Transit Worker Crackdown Timed for Republican Convention?
Transit worker targeted for Sikh religion
NYC Transit Worker Vote Sends Mixed Message
Elections Looming 4 NYC Transit Workers

Teamsters:
The Teamsters & Mexican Truck Drivers

United Farm Workers/Immigrant Labor Struggles:
UFW Reverses Itself on "Guest Workers"
Bush’s new ‘bracero’ program: Temporary work, starvation wages

Service Workers:
San Francisco Hotel Workers on Strike
Toronto Hotel Workers Fight Back

Canadian Labour Movement:
New Workers’ Solidarity Coalition Founded in Toronto
Canadian Fight Back Solidarity Caucus Statement of Purpose
Toronto Hotel Workers Fight Back
Activists Launch Workers' Solidarity Coalition in Canada
Quebec Labour Rises Again!

Labor Around the World:
Workers in Europe to spend more hours on the job
20th anniversary of an historic battle: the British miners strike

Sweatshops:
Women Workers in Chinese Sweatshops

The Class Struggle Program:
How to Win Strikes - by Harry DeBoer
Labor Needs an Organized Left Wing
10 Commandments of the Class Struggle

Independent Working Class Political Action:
Vote Socialist: Leonard Peltier, Roger Calero & John Parker
John Kerry — A False Friend of Labor
2004 Elections: Democrats & the Myth of Lesser Evilism
How Even Small Town Liberals Betray Workers
The Farmer Labor Party of the 1930s

Lessons From the Past:
The I.W.W. by James Cannon
Big Bill Haywood Remembered
1919 Seattle General Strike
Eugene Debs by James Cannon
Lessons from the Trade Union Educational League of the 1920s
Lessons From the 1934 Minneapolis Teamsters Strike
Lessons From the 1934 Toledo Auto-Lite Strike
Organizing the Ford River Rouge Plant in 1941
The Farmer Labor Party of the 1930s
20th anniversary of an historic battle: the British miners strike
Alan Thornett's "Inside Cowley" book on British autoworkers

Labor Links & Resources:
AFL-CIO
Strike Page
United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS)
Labor Notes
Teamsters for a Democratic Union
Jobs With Justice
Labor Beat
Labor Art & Mural Project
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
Labor Party
United Farm Workers
Disgruntled Burger King Employees
LabourStart
LaborNet Online

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