The wages and working conditions of union autoworkers have always set standards for all manufacturing. These in turn have put upward pressure on wages and benefits for all workers. But in todays political and economic climate, major contract negotiations in the manufacturing sector are hell. Thirty years of corporate/right-wing attack on labor law and workers rights have taken an enormous toll. Capitalist globalization, with its frenzied export of capital and...
The Communist Party said a year ago that the 2012 elections would be the main front of the class and democratic struggle, and subsequent events have confirmed that fact.
This section and its subsections deal with the objective position in society and therefore the potential role of, various class and social forces in the struggle for progress and socialism.
Lessons from the 1980s unemployed movement for today's crisis.
The following article by Jarvis Tyner was originally published in the November 1973 edition of Political Affairs. As the accelerated attack of monopoly and imperialism places more hardships on the working class, other social strata suffer as well, often in special ways, reflecting their special position in the economic, social and political life of the country. Without a doubt the plight of the highly proletarianized oppressed minorities, particularly Black Americans,...
The tech giants feed off public goods and the public.
Post-election turning point: The continuing fight and the Party's role in it.
The Chicago police considered Parsons "more dangerous than a thousand rioters."
Listen to Donald Trump and we can see that in this election democracy is at stake. The election is close. It will take a united landslide voter turnout to win. Bring family and friends. Beware the Trump.
Congress is controlled by a belligerent, bought-and-paid corporate minded cabal. What now?