Author Archives

• Trump Fixes and Silences Unemployment Numbers During Pandemic

  By L.Zorfass on March 23, 2020

  

  Last Wednesday, The Trump Administration sent a plea out to State governors to not publish unemployment numbers. This information was found by The New York Times in a leaked email to the paper. The plea was sent on the heels… Read More ›

• Kentucky Miners Illustrate Worker Power With Spontaneous Act of Resistance

  By L.Zorfass on January 15, 2020

  

  On January 13, 2020, a group of miners from the Quest Energy, company in Pike County, Kentucky blocked the railways carrying a heap of mined coal. Over 50 workers have been denied pay for the past three weeks totaling between… Read More ›

• Strike Against GM Intensifies At Home And Abroad

  By L.Zorfass on October 3, 2019

  

  Since going on strike two weeks ago, the UAW workers of GM are showing a courageous example to workers across the United States and the world. The struggle has shown and exemplified a great variance of topics and principles. The… Read More ›

• UAW Strike Pushes Unionization Struggle Forward

  By L.Zorfass on September 16, 2019

  

    On Sunday, Sep.15, The United Autoworkers took up the mantle of class once again and authorized a strike against General Motors with the ending of their contract the previous night before. On Monday, Sep.16, the strike began with a… Read More ›

• Steel Workers Victimized by Capitalist Overproduction, Not Simply Trump’s Failed Protectionism

  By L.Zorfass on August 24, 2019

  

  Last fall, U.S. Steelworkers saw victory in their fight for better pay and conditions. In recent weeks, U.S. Steelworkers have faced several destructive blows, leading to the announcement by U.S. Steel that they would layoff about 200 workers. The reason for these… Read More ›

• Latest Attack On Transgender Workers Is An Attack On All

  By L.Zorfass on August 21, 2019

  

  It is no secret that the Trump Administration is one of a great reaction that preys on the most vulnerable of our society. The marginalization of people leading to the furthering division of the working class, the majority of the… Read More ›

• Michigan Auto Workers Force Bosses Back to the Bargaining Table

  By L.Zorfass on June 26, 2019

  

  Last week saw victories and defeats for the labor movement in the United States. In Tennessee, The United Automobile Workers saw defeat in an attempt to unionize a auto factory.  Outside Detroit, workers used their power of organization against their… Read More ›

• Money, Education, And the Farce Of Justice

  By L.Zorfass on April 27, 2019

  

  At the beginning of March, headlines of American newspapers were studded by an announced investigation into the bribing of colleges and universities for admission consideration. It was never a secret that having money increases one’s chances of getting into a… Read More ›

• New Jersey Stands With Venezuela!

  By L.Zorfass on February 28, 2019

  

  On February 26, a group of radicals, young and old, came together in New Brunswick to protest and bring attention to the illegal coup the U.S. is attempting to carry out in Venezuela.  This coup attempt, while garnering support from… Read More ›

• Federal Court Disenfranchises Native Voters

  By L.Zorfass on February 20, 2019

  

  On Oct. 30th, 2018, a lawsuit was filed against the state of North Dakota to overturn its ID requirements for voting. A little over a week later on Thursday, Nov. 1, a federal judge Daniel L. Hoveland denied the changing… Read More ›

• A Surge Of Strikes Shakes The Elite

  By L.Zorfass on February 14, 2019

  

  Over the past year, there have been more labor strikes and marches than in recent memory. Across the country, working-class people have been standing up against the capitalist elite and their state in increasing numbers and in diverse locations. From… Read More ›

• Trump’s Tax Cuts and Tariffs Cost Nearly 40,000 Workers Their Jobs

  By L.Zorfass on November 28, 2018

  

  All over the country, you hear people say how well the economy is doing, Republicans brag about it, Democrats can’t deny it, and it’s repeated by every corporate news talking head. Yet, the boom of the economy moves parallel to… Read More ›

• Voter Suppression Against Minority Workers

  By L.Zorfass on October 25, 2018

  

  As the midterm cycle comes to a close, the amount of people able to actually vote has decreased. This decline in registered voters is not out of apathy of the American public, or because the country is full of people… Read More ›

• Honduras Workers Victims of Imperial Racket

  By L.Zorfass on October 24, 2018

  

  Across the United States, a conversation about a caravan of over 1,500 people from Honduras is on the lips of nearly every American and is saturated in our national media. The workers from Honduras are heading to the United States… Read More ›

• Democrats Put Cowardice On Display With Supreme Court Confirmation

  By L.Zorfass on October 6, 2018

  

  “And so, the “enlightened” judges of constitutional states are fulminating against all participation of people’s representatives in legal procedure.” -V.I. Lenin When Brett Kavanaugh was nominated by President Trump to fill the empty seat on the Supreme Court, yet another dividing line… Read More ›