Boeing strike at the crossroads: What workers need to fight intervention by government and Wall Street
The whole of corporate America is lining up behind Boeing; the working class must line up behind us.
Boeing Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
Build rank-and-file committees!
The World Socialist Web Site and the Socialist Equality Parties are assisting workers everywhere in the building of an interconnected network of rank-and-file committees, to organize a united counter-offensive against inequality, exploitation, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and the rapidly escalating imperialist world war.
Join a rank-and-file committee!
There are now rank-and-file committees of autoworkers, educators, Amazon and logistics workers, postal workers, bus drivers, and many other sections of the working class.
Rank-and-file committees are of, by and for the rank-and-file workers, who have a different set of interests than management, the bosses, the politicians, and the trade union apparatus, who oppress workers in order to defend the profits of the ruling elite.
Contact us now to join a committee. If there is not already a committee in your workplace, industry or region, we will help you start one!
Reject the sellout railroad contracts! Build a rank-and-file rebellion against the sellout union bureaucrats!
We demand a national contract with real gains which will set an example for workers everywhere.
The Railroad Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
Why the rank-and-file committee is calling for a “Yes” vote in the CWU Political Fund ballot
Our call for a Yes vote is to oppose state control over union funds. These should be controlled by the membership. This means a rank-and-file insurgency to challenge the domination of the Communication Workers Union’s unaccountable bureaucracy.
Statement by the Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee (UK)•
Boeing machinists must unite with East Coast dockworkers to defend jobs and stop world war!
We have to press our advantage. We are demonstrating in every industry that we are the most powerful social force, and now it must be organized.
Boeing Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees•
Boeing Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
National Steel Car Rank-and-File Committee•
Bryan Dyne•
Martina Inessa, Yuvan Darwin•
Biden White House backs UAW bureaucracy’s phony “Keep the Promise” campaign
With anger mounting over the refusal of the UAW to fight layoffs, the Biden administration has thrown its support to Shawn Fain’s fake fight against Stellantis.
Shannon Jones•
Escalating funding crisis in New Zealand public health system
Privatisation in the public health system is underway as funding cuts see one third of the population missing out on healthcare of some kind.
John Braddock•
National strike by delivery workers in “gig economy” in Greece against pay cuts; strikes and protests continue in Iran over plummeting living standards; protests in Johannesburg suburbs in South Africa over water shortages
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
Gig economy delivery workers in Greece in 24-hour walkout against pay cuts and for direct employment; protests and strikes continue across Iran by retirees, teachers, taxi drivers and oil workers over collapsing living standards; South African workers block roads in Johannesburg suburbs over water shortages due to neglected infrastructure
Victimised Royal Mail worker speaks out: “More than 30 years of service ended in 20 seconds!”
Des told the World Socialist Web Site, “I’d been paying union subs since day one of joining Royal Mail, but CWU officials were not interested in my case.”
Our correspondent•
Marc Wells•
Boeing Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
Alan Whyte•
George Kirby•
Benjamin Mateus•
The pandemic must be ended!
On October 24, the World Socialist Web Site and the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees brought together a panel of leading scientists to explain how the virus that causes COVID-19 could be eliminated.
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Workers in the United States and throughout the world must decide to act collectively and finally put an end to the COVID-19 pandemic. 2022 must not be another nightmarish year of mass infections, illness and death!
The implementation of a scientifically guided and progressive response to the pandemic is possible only to the extent that these policies find the necessary social foundation in a mass movement of the working class on a global scale.
“The aim of this global initiative is to develop a genuine broad-based movement of the international working class, and to encourage workers in all countries to break out of the prison-like shackles in which they are confined by the existing state-controlled and antidemocratic unions, staffed by right-wing pro-capitalist executives.” – DAVID NORTH
The International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees, with the political assistance of the Fourth International and the Socialist Equality Parties, will strive to unify workers in a common worldwide struggle, opposing every effort by capitalist governments and the reactionary proponents of the innumerable forms of national, ethnic and racial chauvinism and identity politics to split up the working class into warring factions.
All over the world the trade unions, including those which were founded through bitter struggles led by socialist-minded workers, now play the leading role in enforcing the dictates of management.
In this lecture, delivered in Sydney, Australia in January, 1998, David North explains this profound transformation through an historical examination of the trade unions themselves.
On August 3, 1981, 15,000 members of the union of air traffic controllers in the US—the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO)—went out on strike against their employer, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).