By Abayomi Azikiwe On Monday, January 20, 2025, the Detroit MLK Committee held its 22nd Annual day of commemoration for the life, times and contributions of the martyred Civil Rights and Antiwar leader Dr. Martin […]
By Cameron Harrison DETROIT—“I don’t know what will happen now. We’ve got some difficult days ahead,” Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., said in his final speech before he was assassinated. The words of […]
By Gerry Scoppettuolo In the recent Teamster union “strike” at Amazon, it is estimated that between 600-1000 Teamster/Amazon workers participated in the job action Christmas week. The number of workers who actually left their trucks […]
By Gerry Scoppettuolo The AFL-CIO’s top labor bureaucracy has often opposed rank and file labor insurgencies, especially where imperialist foreign policy or racism is brought up. In the 1980’s AFL-CIO head Lane Kirkland’s support of […]
By UE Officers For over half of a century, working people in the U.S. have seen stagnating wages, worsening working conditions, the loss of good jobs, and constant increases in the cost of living. This […]
By A Union Worker We honor the Indigenous whose stolen land we are on today. And we raise up the latest call from September 2024 by the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions: “We write […]
By Chris Fry On October 18 tens of thousands of Italian auto workers held a nationwide strike and marched through the streets of Rome. Organized by three unions, this action was led by workers from […]
By Fighting Words Staff On September 20 the membership of Local 2000 of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) in Detroit voted to demand their state pension fund divest its holdings of Israel bonds. This […]
By Gerry Scoppettuolo The 2025 Project (issued by the Heritage Foundation) is a Hitler-like plan to crush civil and labor rights enacted in the U.S. A close reading of recent Supreme Court decisions more than […]
By Fighting Words Staff On Monday, September 2, 2024, the Moratorium NOW! Coalition and several Palestine solidarity organizations converged at the Labor Day Parade to appeal to organized labor to escalate their support for the […]
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