Class Struggle

How SLAPP Lawsuits Are Letting Corporations Steal The Truth

September 1, 2018 Matt Stannard, Occupy.com Resist! Class Struggle, Corporations, Corruption, Lawsuit

All his life, Pete Kolbenschlag has been fighting for the Commons against wealthy people and corporations who want to own and destructively exploit nature. “Change happens all the time,” he told me, “and will long after you have shed the mortal coil. Shape what you can now in a positive direction.” Pete was my best friend's housemate when I first met him 20-ish years ago in Salt Lake City. He was already a troublemaker, heading up major environmental actions in Utah and networking with activists and organizations around the West. He lives in Colorado now, and runs Mountain West Strategies, providing support to groups struggling to protect land and natural resources in Rocky Mountain states. He’s still a troublemaker.

A Labor Day Call To Action

August 31, 2018 Staff, Incarceratedworkers.org Organize! Class Struggle, Prison Labor, Prison Strike, Prisons

This is a call to establish encampments and coordinate direct actions surrounding the Labor Day weekend at the site of prison labor camps. Inspired by the recent wave of #AbolishICE organizing, prison abolitionists and labor activists have joined forces to call for an escalation of the movement to defend public service unions, stop prison slave labor, and end mass incarceration. As prisoners launch what is anticipated to be the largest national prison strike in U.S. history, between August 21- September 9, we on the outside must also ask ourselves, what are we willing to do and how much are we willing to risk to demonstrate our solidarity to fellow workers? Earlier this year, the Supreme Court announced one of the most devastating blows to union membership in decades.

The Working Class Strikes Back

August 30, 2018 Chris Wright, Counterpunch.org Resist! Class Struggle, Working Class

Reading the daily headlines, it’s easy to forget that the corollary of a civilization in precipitous decline is a world of creative ferment, a new world struggling to be born. If you could have a God’s-eye view of all the creative resistance rending the fabric of political oppression from the U.S. to Indonesia to Colombia, you would surely be persuaded that all hope is not lost. This conclusion is borne out in detail by a book published earlier this year, The Class Strikes Back: Self-Organised Workers’ Struggles in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Dario Azzellini and Michael G. Kraft. The chapters, each dedicated to a different case-study, survey inspiring democratic activism in thirteen countries across five continents.

Reports Back From The First Week Of The National Prison Strike

August 29, 2018 Amani Sawari, Sawarimi.org Resist! Class Struggle, Prison Strike, Prisons

Many people are aware of the prison strike that began August 21 on the 47th anniversary of George Jackson’s assassination in 1971. Some of those following the strike are confused by the conflicting messages that are being sent out by states’ departments of corrections. It’s clear that prison officials are doing all that they can to suppress strike actions and prisoners’ organizing. However prisoners are rising up in institutions across the country, and now internationally, in protest of the living and working conditions in the prisons. They also call out for the rescinding of legal barriers and policies that keep inmates in a state of oppression and instability. They are demanding to have ownership over transforming the circumstances that contribute to the violent environments they forced to live in.

Hoffa Caught Using Phony Member Profiles To Push Yes Vote At UPS

August 28, 2018 Staff, Tdu.org Resist! Class Struggle, Labor, Unions, UPS

Hoffa’s Package Division and UPSrising have sent members nationwide an email and leaflet that uses photos from the internet to impersonate UPSers and fraudulently promote contract givebacks. Hoffa and Denis Taylor are having such a hard time finding real UPS Teamsters who support their contract givebacks that they have resorted to using fake photos and phony membership testimonials. On Thursday afternoon, Hoffa's Package Division sent out a nationwide blast email of a leaflet supposedly featuring UPSers speaking out in favor of the concessionary contract. We got suspicious when we recognized the unidentified driver in the top-left of the leaflet who praises the two-tier 22.4 driver giveback.

Becoming Serfs

August 28, 2018 By Chris Hedges, Truthdig.com Educate! Class Struggle, Inequality

You know the statistics. Income inequality in the United States has not been this pronounced in over a century. The top 10 percent has 50 percent of the country’s income, and the upper 1 percent has 20 percent of the country’s income. A quarter of American workers struggle on wages of less than $10 an hour, putting them below the poverty line, while the income of the average CEO of a major corporation is more than 300 times the pay of his or her average worker, a massive increase given that in the 1950s the average CEO made 20 times what his or her worker made. This income inequality is global. The richest 1 percent of the world’s population controls 40 percent of the world’s wealth. And it is getting worse. What will the consequences of this inequality be economically and politically?

With US Prison Strike On Third Day, Reports Of Hunger Strikes And Work Stoppages Nationwide

August 25, 2018 By Julia Conley, Commondreams.org Resist! Class Struggle, Hunger Strikes, Prison Strike, Prisons

"Prisoners are boycotting commissaries, they are engaging in hunger strikes which can take days for the state to acknowledge, and they will be engaging in sit-ins and work strikes which are not always reported to the outside." Details of the nationwide prison strike, now in its third day, are gradually emerging from institutions where inmates are staging hunger strikes, refusing to work, and participating in sit-ins to protest unjust sentencing laws, poor living conditions, and the continued existence of slavery within the nation's carceral system. The strike began on Tuesday, with organizers reporting that incarcerated Americans in 17 states had pledged to join the action. According to a statement from organizers including Jailhouse Lawyers Speak and the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee (IWOC), at least six direct actions had taken place at U.S. prisons in North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Washington, and California.

Teamsters Local Meeting Erupts In Anger As Union Official Calls UPS Workers’ Poverty Wages “Subjective”

August 24, 2018 Norisa Diaz, Wsws.org Resist! Class Struggle, Unions, Workers Rights and Jobs

Opposition is growing among UPS workers to the contract being pushed by the Teamsters union. A meeting of Teamsters Local 542 in southern California erupted in anger on Sunday, as UPS workers denounced the sellout contract. The proposed agreement creates a new, lower-paid tier of “hybrid” driver and warehouse workers, aimed at cutting labor costs and extending part-time conditions to delivery. It maintains poverty wages for part-time warehouse workers, who make up the majority of the company’s 250,000 workers. Western Region Small Package Division Director Andy Marshall presented the concessions contract to a room of over 100 UPS workers. He speedily read long sections of the contract, insisting that any questions be “relevant” to the section he was reviewing. He repeatedly declared, “This was the best we could get.”

50 Union Workers Arrested After Thousands Of Hardhats To Call On NFL To Ask Miami Dolphins Owner To Step Down From The League’s Social And Racial Justice Committee

August 23, 2018 By Erik McGregor, Erikmcgregorphotography.blogspot.com Resist! Class Struggle, Unions, Workers Rights and Jobs

New York, NY - Fifty union workers committing civil disobedience were arrested outside the NFL Headquarters in Manhattan after thousands of unionized construction workers held a rally on August 22, 2018 to call on the NFL to ask Steve Ross, Related Companies Chairman/Founder and owner of the Miami Dolphins, to step down from the NFL’s Social & Racial Justice Committee. The NFL announced the Committee earlier this year as a joint player and ownership commitment focused on social justice and a part of a campaign to highlight work on social and racial equality.

Prison Strike Organizer Warns: Brutal Prison Conditions Risk “Another Attica”

August 23, 2018 Natasha Lennard, Theintercept.com Educate! Attica, Class Struggle, Prison Strike

LAST APRIL, A seven-hour prison riot at South Carolina’s Lee Correctional institution left seven inmates dead and dozens injured. State Corrections Department Director Bryan Stirling cited the source of the riot as “likely gang-related,” but inmates say that it was provoked by overly punitive prison guards who subsequently made no effort to intervene or offer medical aid for hours. It was the deadliest incident in a U.S. prison in 25 years. Many incarcerated people and prisoner advocates attributed the riot to the structural brutality of the prison system itself. In response, prison rights advocacy groups and incarcerated organizers have called for a nationwide prison strike to last from August 21 — the 47th anniversary of revolutionary George Jackson’s death in San Quentin State Prison — to September 9, the anniversary of the Attica Prison riot.

How Missouri Beat “Right to Work”

August 22, 2018 By Nelson Lichtenstein, Dissentmagazine.org Resist! Class Struggle, Labor, Missouri, Workers Rights and Jobs

The most remarkable thing about last week’s rejection by Missouri voters of a right-to-work law enacted by the Republican-run state legislature was its magnitude. Not only did opponents crush the law by a margin of more than two to one, the total vote on the issue—nearly 1.4 million—exceeded by more than a 100,000 the number of statewide ballots cast on behalf of all candidates in both party primaries that same day. Labor won because its leadership reached deep into the rank and file to mobilize an army of activists who first collected more than 300,000 signatures to put a repeal referendum on the ballot and then door-knocked throughout the state on its behalf.

A Way Out For Brazil

August 22, 2018 By Joao Pedro Stedile, Peoplesdispatch.org Resist! Brazil, Class Struggle, Regime Change

Brazil is going through a grave economic, political, social and environmental crisis. Many factors have contributed to the emergence of this crisis, principally the subordination of our economy to finance and international capital that steal from the whole society. The coup of 2016 [which saw the overthrow of president Dilma Rousseff] was an attempt by the bourgeoisie to save itself from the crisis by placing the weight of it on the working class. To do this, it used its media, judicial and parliamentary power. The plan was to rob public resources, take away rights, subordinate the country completely to international interests, hand over natural resources like petroleum, minerals and water and companies like Petrobras, Electrobras and Embraer [companies in the petroleum, power and aeronautics sectors] .

Tenants Together: Stories, Struggles, And Strategies

August 22, 2018 Staff, TenantsTogether.org Organize! Class Struggle, Housing, Tenants

Concord: Local allies conducted a survey and report (that Tenants Together helped edit) that 75 percent of tenants in Concord fear eviction, while over half experience unsafe living conditions, but fear retaliation from their landlords for reporting them. Los Angeles: According to a new report, the Los Angeles area loses 5.5 rent control units every day due to Ellis Act evictions. San Francisco: Our friends and member orgs in the San Francisco Anti-Displacement Coalition has released a new report, "The Cost of Costa-Hawkins". The report puts a spotlight on common landlord lies and exploitation of loopholes, as a resource for statewide action to support Yes on Prop 10, a full repeal of Costa-Hawkins. To join the fight for Proposition 10, the Affordable Housing Act, sign up here! To learn more about what Costa-Hawkins is, check out this primer on our website and educate your friends and neighbors to vote #YesOn10 this November.

Meet The Militant Taxi Drivers Union That Just Defeated Uber And Lyft

August 20, 2018 Chris Brooks, Inthesetimes.com Resist! Class Struggle, Uber, Unions, Workers Rights and Jobs

On August 14, the scrappy but militant 21,000 member union representing taxi and for-hire vehicle drivers in New York City won a landmark legislative victory establishing the country’s first cap on ride-sharing company vehicles and essentially forcing them to pay their drivers a minimum wage. This fight pitted the Taxi Workers Alliance against corporate giants Uber and Lyft, which together employ more lobbyists than Amazon, Walmart and Microsoft combined. Uber alone spent $1 million between January and June of this year trying to put the brakes on the Taxi Workers Alliance’s efforts. There is little wonder why. New York City is Uber’s largest U.S. market and the number of Uber and Lyft vehicles on the streets have exploded in recent years, from 25,000 in 2015 to 80,000 in 2018.

“Get up” – Sahra Wagenknecht In An Interview About Her Collection Movement

August 16, 2018 By Fabienne Rzitki, Web.de Create! Class Struggle, Germany, Politics

A movement can not compete in elections in Germany. But when we get strong, we can build up so much pressure that the parties open their lists for fellow campaigners. However, our primary concern is not to get parliamentary posts, but to launch an initiative that will make political engagement attractive again. We want to address people who have turned away disappointed from the parties. We want to win those who do not want party-political ox-tours, but are very interested in politics and want to help shape it. We will be different, in our communication, in our appearance. After all, the majority of our now over forty prominent founding members does not come from politics. There are actors, singers, writers, scientists, cabaret artists, theater people.

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