These comments from international workers opened the International May Day Online Rally on May 1. Visit the main rally page at wsws.org/mayday.
After mass anti-Trump protests, UAW President Fain doubles down on support for trade war
Fain’s video is, for all intents and purposes, the response of the bureaucracy to the mass protests last weekend. In the emerging showdown between the working class and Trump, the bureaucracy is lining up against workers on the other side of the barricade.
TOM HALL•
Reject the SEIU-LA County sellout agreement! Form rank-and-file committees to expand the struggle!
The tentative agreement amounts to a calculated maneuver by the capitalist state, in collusion with the pro-corporate union bureaucracy, to suppress the growing militancy of the working class and impose austerity in the name of “budget stability.”
Marc Wells•
Book Review
Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle and the fight against workplace death and injury
The Jungle takes on renewed importance today with rising levels of workplace death and injury-- and amidst workers’ fightback for independent control of workplace safety through the Ronald Adams campaign and the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees (IWA-RFC).
Logan Buchko•
Sydney’s Macquarie University axes jobs and courses in line with Labor’s pro-business agenda
The redundancies are coupled with major curriculum changes, leaving substantially reduced options for students, in line with Labor’s restructuring of universities to meet “national priorities.”
A Macquarie University Rank-and-File Committee member•
Tony Robson•
Marc Wells, Liz Cabrera•
Jerry White•
Patrick O’Connor•
Jonathan Burleigh, Alex Lee•