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Delegates to the November 1919 founding convention of the Labor Party

The Grassroots Labor Parties of 1919-1920: A Missed Opportunity for Labor

Sixth in our series of articles on the history of labor parties in the United states, by Stan Phipps Over time, there is a great variance in the extent to which workers are [...]

July 6, 2018

Dossier: Next Steps in the Struggle for Independent Working Class Politics

IN THIS DOSSIER: (1) Next Steps in the Struggle for Independent Working Class Politics Dossier: Editorial June 2018 Issue of The Organizer Newspaper (2) Our Perspectives on [...]

June 11, 2018

Dialogue with Nick Brana on “Our Revolution” and the Fight for Independent Working Class Politics

[Note: Following is a discussion with Nick Brana, national director of the Movement For a People’s Party and past national outreach coordinator of the Bernie Sanders For [...]

May 16, 2018

Election 2016 and “Russian Hacking”: Pointing Fingers at the Wrong Culprit —What’s Behind the Justice Department’s Witch-Hunt

By the Editorial Board of The Organizer Newspaper On Feb. 16, the U.S. Justice Department indicted 13 Russian nationals and three organizations for allegedly entering into a [...]

April 6, 2018

West Virginia Teachers Win! (Dossier)

The West Virginia teachers have shown us all what it takes to win a strike — and what it will take to defeat Janus and expand our labor movement. After nine days on [...]

March 12, 2018

Tillerson’s Latin America Tour Aims to Set the Stage for U.S. Military Intervention in Venezuela

(reprinted from Feb.-March 2018 issue of The Organizer newspaper) U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s tour of major cities across Latin America the first week of [...]

March 2, 2018

Striking West Virginia Teachers Need Labor’s Support Urgently!

West Virginia Teachers Point the Way Forward! West Virginia teachers are showing what real union power can do, even in a right-to-work (for less) state. As we go to press [...]

March 1, 2018

Labor Beat: Chicago Anti-JANUS Protest

Throughout the US union rallies protested the case now at the Supreme Court in JANUS vs AFSCME, which seeks to weaken the ability of unions to make free-riders pay for the [...]

February 28, 2018

A Haitian Activist Responds to Trump’s Provocation: Let’s Stand Up and Resist!

By Berthony Dupont * (reprinted from Issue No. 69 — Jan. 19, 2018 — of the IWC Newsletter) There are actions that cannot be labelled as incidents or accidents, but rather [...]

January 20, 2018

Labor Beat: School Closing Hearings – NTA vs Real Estate Values

A hearing on January 9, 2018 — organized by Chicago Public Schools — ‘debated’ the threatened closing of the National Teachers Academy grade school. The facility [...]

January 16, 2018