The New York City construction worker protest scheduled for 3/15 been officially cancelled, as CountMeIn leaders announced on March 8th that a deal had been reached. In a statement released on their facebook and twitter, CountMeIn leaders stated that abandoning… Read More ›
Workers Struggle
News relating to Organized Labor, Strikes, Unionization, and Worker’s Struggles in the Workplace.
UIC Grad Students Prepare for Strike, Call for Aid
The graduate student union at the University of Illinois at Chicago is preparing what they have called an “indefinite strike” beginning March 19th, unless their demands for higher wages and better working conditions are met by the university administration. Their… Read More ›
#CountMeIn: NYC Construction Workers Say “No Retreat, No Surrender” on March 15
Ekim KILIÇ New York Union construction workers in New York City will protest against the open shop policy of their company with the slogan of “No Retreat, No Surrender” on March 15 at 8 am. The workers will be out… Read More ›
Historical Sketch: American Conservatism and the New Right, 1960 – 2008
Conservatism and Crisis The Civil Rights, Women’s, anti-war, and social change movements of the 1960s and 1970s, spawned a conservative backlash that manifested itself in various ways. From the pagers of National Review magazine, to the conspiracy theories of the… Read More ›
Statement on the Strike in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico, and a Call to Solidarity and Action on January 25th.
The following statement has been signed by the American Party of Labor in solidarity with striking workers in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico. All power to working people! Workplace democracy now! Mexico City, January 20, 2019 To social organizations To democratic unions… Read More ›
Strike in Mexico: The Ruling Class Trembles Before the Workers Strike in Tamaulipas!
Translated by Red Phoenix Staff (Find the original here.) The Worker’s Strike of Matamoros involving thousands of workers is making history. The economic demands for increased wages and annual bonuses are clearly demonstrating the conditions in which millions of workers in… Read More ›
Statement of the Labour Party of Iran (Toufan) on the Arrest and Torture of Labour Activist Esmail Bakhshi
The criminal regime of the Islamic Republic has severely tortured a labour activist to the brink of death. It is more than two months that the workers of Haft Tapeh Sugarcane Agro Industrial Company in the Khuzistan Province of Iran… Read More ›
International Conference of Maxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations: Hundredth Anniversary of the Third, Communist, International
Next year, 2019, the International Conference of M-L Parties and Organizations (ICMLPO) has decided to commemorate this hundredth anniversary. One of the future projects proposed in the ICMLPO is to organize the Marxist-Leninist Communist International, with the aim of promoting… Read More ›
The American Party of Labor Has Been Granted Observer Status in the International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations
The following letter was received by the American Party of Labor from the Coordination Committee of the International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations. Translation is by Red Phoenix staff. “Comrades Alfonso Casal, National Chair and, Víctor Vaughn, National… Read More ›
What We Have to Learn From France
By Ahmet Cengiz Published in Evrensel (12/10/2018) As these lines were being penned, this week’s Saturday march by the “Yellow Vests” had yet to take place. Head of state Macron finally announced through his ministers that he had fully agreed… Read More ›
A New Social Movement is Being Born in Europe
By Yücel Özdemir Originally published in Evrensel (12/07/2018) Not only in France, but in all Europe, those who stand in the vanguard of the urgent demands of the masses will continue to gain in strength. The attention of the whole world… Read More ›
Statement of the 24th Plenary of the International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations
To the Workers and Peoples To the Revolutionaries and Communists In Mexico we commemorate the end of World War I, which caused great, serious damage to humanity and which was also the scene in which the first proletarian revolution triumphed,… Read More ›
Trump’s Tax Cuts and Tariffs Cost Nearly 40,000 Workers Their Jobs
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 ›
Statement of the American Party of Labor on the Vth Congress of the Revolutionary Peoples Front of Mexico
The American Party of Labor sends its warmest and most enthusiastic congratulations to our comrades of the Revolutionary Peoples Front (Frente Revolucionario Popular – FPR) of Mexico on the successful completion of their Vth Congress in Oaxaca this weekend. The… Read More ›
#CountMeIn: Persistent New York Workers’ Struggle Continues To Fight
Photos obtained from CountMeIn Facebook Page Ekim KILIÇ New York On October 11th, union construction workers of the Hudson Yards came out to protest Related Companies CEO Jeff Blau outside of the Joseph Wharton Awards Dinner at the University Club… Read More ›