Resistance to a Backlash: Maryland Public Employees On Strike, 1968-1974
Emily Fox argues that a series of illegal strikes by Maryland state public employees between 1968 and 1974 provide key historical insight into the rise …
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Toward a People’s History of the University of Maryland: AFSCME Local 1072
Emily Fox recounts the history of AFSCME Local 1072, a militant union of campus staff at the University of Maryland organized during a period often …
Labor Notes and Labor’s Next Year
Leland Olds responds to the recent Labor Notes conference with an analysis of the current state of U.S. labor organizing and proposes a syncretic strategy …
The Making of a Working Class Revolutionary: an Interview with Jerome Scott
We sit down with Jerome Scott, former Detroit Auto worker and founding member of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers to learn about Black working-class …
The UPS Struggle and the Tasks of Marxists in the Labor Movement
Teamsters Mobilize members and former activists in Revolutionary Marxist Students Audrey Johnson and Lenni Myers assess the current UPS tentative agreement and outline a Marxist strategy …
The Part-Time Fight for $25 at UPS and the Betrayal of TDU
With UPS and the Teamsters at the negotiating table, Edgar Esquivel takes issue with those in the US Left who have tailed the leadership of …
Solidarity Sometimes: U.S. Organized Labor’s Cold War Policy in Central and South America
Hank Kennedy presents a historical overview of the reactionary Cold War international policy of the Meany/Kirkland era AFL-CIO, with a focus on its relations with …
Letter: A Gap in Marxist Unity Group’s Labor Position
I have been impressed by the ideas Marxist Unity Group has been putting forward in DSA debates for several years now. It is a shame …
Setting the Record Straight: On the Trotskyist-led 1934 Minneapolis Teamsters Strike, the Teamsters Bureaucracy & its Aftermath
Trotskyist Teamsters took a leading role in a historic labor upsurge and clashed with a corrupt leadership under Dan Tobin. Twenty-four-year Teamster Edgar Esquivel tells …
Where is TDU Going? The Plot Against Teamsters Reform
Edgar Esquivel takes issue with Teamsters for a Democratic Union’s endorsement of Sean O’Brien in the latest Teamsters General Executive Board election. With the lowest …
Trade Unionism and Identity in the Israeli State with Ehud Ein-Gil
Lydia and Rudy join Matzpen member Ehud Ein-Gil for a discussion on trade unionism within the Israeli state. We discuss Ehud’s experiences around the founding …
Critique of the Saltsjöbaden Agreement
Translation by Tom Anderson of a pamphlet by Gösta Kempe from 1939. We publish this as a document of workers struggle against reactionary union laws …