The accidental shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins at the hands of Alec Baldwin on the set of Rust has to be understood in the light of the struggle of the stagehands’ […]
IATSE, the Union Leadership and Death on the Job
John Deere Strikers Can Win It All…. and Transform the Labor Movement!
The powerful position that the striking John Deere workers find themselves in means that they can win absolutely everything they want. There is no need to compromise one iota. Wall St. Journal […]
Interview with Anand Gopal: Afghanistan’s Tribal Traditions, Taliban, and US Occupation
Anand Gopal is a former reporter for the Wall St. Journal and author of the book “No Good Men Among the Living”. Gopal spent years traveling around in the hinterlands of Afghanistan, […]
Interview with Anand Gopal: Afghanistan’s Tribal Traditions, Taliban, and US Occupation, podcast
The union leadership “like a PR firm for the company”: Interview with UAW member Justin Mayhugh
Justin Mayhugh is an alternate delegate in UAW Local 31 and a member of a UAW caucus called Unite All Workers for Democracy (UAWD). He works on the assembly line for GM. […]
Western Washington Carpenters Can Make History
It’s no exaggeration: Western Washington carpenters can make history. That’s because the situation they face is not that very different from that faced by all union members in the US; if rank […]
Abortion Rights Protest in San Francisco: Cheryl Zuur Comments
by Cheryl Zuur I went to the SF Women’s March today, one of the many across the country. I really did not want to go but knew that I MUST go. Many […]
Interview: Vermont State AFL-CIO president David Van Deusen
Last year the Vermont State AFL-CIO made some headlines when it called for a general strike in the event of an attempted coup by outgoing president Trump. Here, Oaklandsocialist talks with the […]
Video: Rank and file carpenters show what REAL unionism is!
Here is a glimpse of what the rank and file carpenters in Western Washington have been doing, how they have been shutting down jobs. Along the way, they confront the union bureaucracy […]
Video: Carpenters speak at rally organized by Kshama Sawant
Excerpts from speeches given by carpenters as well as others (including Kshama Sawant) at a rally she and her group – Socialist Alternative – organized.