Roberta Wood

 
 
Roberta Wood

Roberta Wood, Secretary-Treasurer of the Communist Party, is a retired journeyman industrial instrument mechanic. A lifelong union activist, she was a founding co-chair of the United Steelworkers District 31 Women's Caucus. She writes on labor issues for peoplesworld.org. A Chicagoan, Roberta is married to Steelworker retiree Scott Marshall. Scott and Roberta have four daughters and seven grandchildren.

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Abolish prisons and immigrant detention centers

Abolish prisons and immigrant detention centers

  We need to explicitly call for the abolition of the prison system and immigrant detention centers. Millions of members of our class - predominantly Black, Latino and Native American...

BY:Roberta Wood| May 29, 2019
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Convention Discussion: Right wing, Let’s stop using this term

Convention Discussion: Right wing, Let’s stop using this term

By itself, “right wing” has no class content.

BY:Roberta Wood| March 18, 2019
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Understanding Collectivity

Understanding Collectivity

Share your views on this pre-convention discussion podcast.

BY:Roberta Wood| March 12, 2019
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A recipe for working-class unity

A recipe for working-class unity

Breaking bread is a good way to build solidarity.

BY:Roberta Wood| October 3, 2018
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Marxism in the era of Amazon and Uber

Marxism in the era of Amazon and Uber

Capitalists go to great lengths to call members of today’s working class anything but workers (instead they are labeled everything from “contractors” and Wal-Mart “associates” to “day laborers” and prison...

BY:Roberta Wood| September 11, 2018
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