Australian rank-and-file educators support striking Woolworths workers
“We say from bitter experience that to avoid yet another sell-out, you need to take matters out of the hands of the UWU bureaucrats.”
Our correspondents•
Build rank-and-file committees!
The World Socialist Web Site and the Socialist Equality Parties are assisting workers everywhere in the building of an interconnected network of rank-and-file committees, to organize a united counter-offensive against inequality, exploitation, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and the rapidly escalating imperialist world war.
Join a rank-and-file committee!
There are now rank-and-file committees of autoworkers, educators, Amazon and logistics workers, postal workers, bus drivers, and many other sections of the working class.
Rank-and-file committees are of, by and for the rank-and-file workers, who have a different set of interests than management, the bosses, the politicians, and the trade union apparatus, who oppress workers in order to defend the profits of the ruling elite.
Contact us now to join a committee. If there is not already a committee in your workplace, industry or region, we will help you start one!
Berlin transport workers election: How to conduct the struggle against the trade union Verdi
The result of the recent Berlin Transport Company (BVG) staff council election in Berlin has revealed the extent of opposition to the public service union Verdi.
Transport Workers Action Committee•
Trade unions’ isolation of Canada Post strikers facilitates government-backed concessions drive
The Canadian Union of Postal Workers has left strikers isolated on picket lines, while the Canadian Labour Congress has remained entirely silent on the strike and the attacks on postal workers’ democratic and social rights being prepared by the Liberal government and Canada Post management.
Our reporters•
Communication Workers Union embraces Kretinsky’s takeover of Royal Mail
The call by the CWU for “engagement” is a blueprint for a surrender document Mark II, not a call to arms for postal workers.
Tony Robson•
A striking Canada Post worker•
Health Workers Rank-and-File Committee •
Boeing Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee (Canada)•
Western Sydney University Rank-and-File Committee•
Battle lines harden with strike by 55,000 Canada Post workers in 3rd week
With the backing of the Liberal government, Canada Post continues to demand sweeping concessions, while the CUPW and Canadian Labour Congress bureaucrats work to keep striking postal workers isolated from their colleagues throughout the logistics sector and the working class as a whole.
our reporters•
Australia: Paramedics must reject Victorian Labor government-union cost-cutting agreement
The proposed deal will not increase the number of frontline paramedics or end the worsening working conditions they confront.
Margaret Rees•
Australian rank-and-file educators support striking Woolworths workers
“We say from bitter experience that to avoid yet another sell-out, you need to take matters out of the hands of the UWU bureaucrats.”
Our correspondents•
4 workers exposed to toxic hexavalent chromium at Tesla Gigafactory in Austin, Texas
OSHA fined the company $7,000, around the same amount Tesla CEO Elon Musk makes in less than a minute.
Chase Lawrence•
Alex Findijs•
Jane Wise•
Robert Campion•
Jerry White•
The pandemic must be ended!
On October 24, the World Socialist Web Site and the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees brought together a panel of leading scientists to explain how the virus that causes COVID-19 could be eliminated.
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Workers in the United States and throughout the world must decide to act collectively and finally put an end to the COVID-19 pandemic. 2022 must not be another nightmarish year of mass infections, illness and death!
The implementation of a scientifically guided and progressive response to the pandemic is possible only to the extent that these policies find the necessary social foundation in a mass movement of the working class on a global scale.
“The aim of this global initiative is to develop a genuine broad-based movement of the international working class, and to encourage workers in all countries to break out of the prison-like shackles in which they are confined by the existing state-controlled and antidemocratic unions, staffed by right-wing pro-capitalist executives.” – DAVID NORTH
The International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees, with the political assistance of the Fourth International and the Socialist Equality Parties, will strive to unify workers in a common worldwide struggle, opposing every effort by capitalist governments and the reactionary proponents of the innumerable forms of national, ethnic and racial chauvinism and identity politics to split up the working class into warring factions.
All over the world the trade unions, including those which were founded through bitter struggles led by socialist-minded workers, now play the leading role in enforcing the dictates of management.
In this lecture, delivered in Sydney, Australia in January, 1998, David North explains this profound transformation through an historical examination of the trade unions themselves.
On August 3, 1981, 15,000 members of the union of air traffic controllers in the US—the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO)—went out on strike against their employer, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).