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•
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!
Canada Post strikers must unify their struggle with all logistics workers to stop the “Amazonification” of our jobs!
Instead of participating in a race to the bottom against low-paid, precariously employed delivery workers, we must turn to these workers and fight to rally them alongside us, for a joint struggle, based on our common class interests for well-paid and secure jobs for all.
A striking Canada Post worker•
NSW nurses and midwives: Form rank-and-file committees to fight the Labor government’s wage cuts!
The strike in Australia's most populous state shows that nurses want to fight cuts to their wages and conditions. But they are in a struggle against the Labor government and the union bureaucracy.
Health Workers Rank-and-File Committee •
Reject the third sellout TA at Boeing! The rank and file must seize control of the strike from the IAM bureaucrats for victory!
It has become absolutely clear that if we are to win this strike, we have to overthrow the dead weight of the IAM union bureaucracy.
Boeing Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee (Canada)•
Western Sydney University Rank-and-File Committee•
International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees•
Daniel Berkley•
Bryan Dyne•
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
South Korea: Seoul Metro workers fight for higher pay; India: Delhi Transport Corporation contract workers strike; Western Australian power utility workers walk out over wages; Nurses and midwives at Healthscope hospitals in Newcastle strike; New Zealand nurses to hold nationwide strikes
Turkey: Workers occupy mines against privatisation as reaction to trade union sell-out contracts grows
As a result of privatisation, workers face the same risks of dismissal, wage cuts, loss of social rights and even increased risk of death and injury in precarious conditions as in other companies.
Barış Demir•
1,500 Australian Woolworths workers begin indefinite strike
To defeat a line-up that includes Woolworths, the media and the Labor government, the strike must be urgently expanded.
Oscar Grenfell•
Nurses union ends strike at University of Illiniois-Chicago after announcing tentative agreement
The results of the vote have not been made public, but by that time the union had already called off the strike, having told nurses to report back to work on Sunday.
Benjamin Mateus•
Our correspondents•
Martin Scott•
Chicago Educators Rank-and-File Committee•
Andrea Lobo•
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).