How West Virginia teachers defied the state—and their unions

Michael M describes his experience helping organize the West Virginia teacher strikes in 2018 and 2019, as a member of the West Virginia United caucus, and the IWW....

education, Michael Mochaidean, Organizing Work, schools, strikes, West Virginia, USA
What does “climate emergency” mean? Let’s define that OUTSIDE parliament

The UK parliament declares a "climate emergency" while supporting Heathrow airport expansion, fracking, and fossil fuel subsidies. We need to make our own decisions about what the...

Socialist Leaders Won’t Save Unions

An article from the Organizing Work blog that offers a structural account of the role played by...

L.A.’s Class Struggle Looks Like This: The Tenants Movement

An article from Salvo, a Los Angeles working class newspaper, on recent tenants' struggles in the area.

Library

Memphis sanitation strike, 1968.
E08: The Vietnam war strike wave

The first in a series of episodes we will be producing about the Vietnam war. Here we talk to historian and author of Strike! Jeremy Brecher about the strike wave which swept the United States...

1970 postal strike, civil rights movement, General Motors, Jeremy Brecher, strikes, Teamsters, Vietnam war, Working Class History, USA

History

United Black Youth League, Bradford.
Emerging conflicts in the Asian Youth Movements

Anandi Ramamurthy analyses the emerging divisions within the Asian Youth Movements around the issue of state funding. One faction opted to accept and was slowly absorbed into the functioning of...

Anandi Ramamurthy, Asian Youth Movement, black liberation in Britain, migration, race, state socialism, UK, United Black Youth League