On Nov. 19, a mass shooter named Anderson Lee Aldrich entered Club Q, an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, and opened fire, killing five people and wounding 17 others. This shooting cannot be understood as an isolated event, nor as a phenomenon isolated to the U.S.A. Anti-LGBTQ hate crimes are on the rise in Canada and the United States.

That “pro-labor” president Biden was forced to resort to this blatant attack on the democratic right to strike is a demonstration of the colossal potential power of the working class. The US bourgeoisie was petrified of a rail shutdown bringing the country to a grinding halt, and with the midterms safely out of the way, intervened to stop this from happening.

On Monday, November 14, nearly 48,000 academic workers walked off the job across all ten campuses of the University of California (UC) system, beginning one of the largest US strikes in recent years. The striking teaching assistants, academic researchers, and other university employees—most of whom are graduate students or postdoctoral fellows—are all members of the United Auto Workers (UAW).

A new chapter in the saga of the Starbucks workers’ union drive is now unfolding. After being hit with a wave of retaliatory firings of union organizers across the U.S. in recent months, workers have responded in kind with a string of walkouts and strikes. In total, there have been at least 55 job actions […]

This June, Apple retail workers in Baltimore made history by winning the vote for union representation at the first of 270 Apple stores across the US. This represents the first shots in the battle to unionize the company with the highest market cap valuation in the world, reaching an eye-watering $3 trillion at the start of this […]

Over 100,000 people died last year from drug overdoses in the US. It was the second year in a row that the death toll exceeded that figure, according to statistics from the CDC. These overdoses are disproportionately concentrated in poor regions, particularly Appalachia, which has been ravaged by an opioid addiction crisis for the past two and a half […]

After days of intensive speculation and evasion, US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi landed in Taipei, Taiwan on a US Air Force Jet on Aug. 2. This reckless and reactionary provocation towards China by US imperialism threatens to destabilise the entire Indo-Pacific region.  Behind all the hypocritical talk of supporting ‘democracy’, in reality Pelosi’s […]

On the weekend of June 17 to 19, thousands of labour activists converged in Chicago, Illinois for the Labor Notes 2022 bi-annual conference. With the crisis of capitalism forcing more and more workers to find a way to get organized and fight back, the conference brought together activists from across the movement: from newly unionized […]

With a majority of five-to-four, the US Supreme Court today overturned the so-called Roe v. Wade ruling, which since 1973 has constitutionally protected a woman’s right to seek an abortion. Dozens of states are expected to announce varying degrees of abortion bans and restrictions in the coming days and weeks. This vicious attack on an elementary […]

The Amazon Labor Union (ALU) has fired labor’s opening shots against the retail giant. Their organizing campaign at Staten Island warehouse JFK8 led to an electrifying victory in the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) vote. Workers at the smaller LDJ5 warehouse held a similar vote shortly after that, but the ALU lost with 380 votes […]