Caravan Migrants Trapped on the Frontiers of Capitalism
Submitted by Internationalis... on Dec 7 2018 13:17
Increasing militarism and hostility to migrants are interconnected aspects of the crisis of capitalism.
Welcome to Intransigence
Submitted by Internationalis... on Jul 15 2018 18:50
Intransigence is an online journal which is a joint undertaking between a few groups (Workers' Offensive, Gulf Coast Communist Fraction, Internationalist Workers Group, and Klasbatalo Collective) and individuals in North America. It is subtitled “Publication of the Internationalists in North America”. Its self-proclaimed goal is “to aid in the regrouping effort that is currently underway, serving as both a medium for internal discussion and a means of publicizing these views.”
USA: The Role of the Union in the Teachers Strikes
Submitted by Internationalis... on Jun 9 2018 21:49
It should be common sense that workers can only use their collective strength if united in some body which includes them all. But that assumes that the unions today are representative of the workers. Under modern capitalist conditions the union exists to mediate wage labour on behalf of the state. The unions’ existence as permanent bodies means they have to comply with the rules of the capitalist game. They have become another layer of management within the system.
West Virginia school employees sold out?
Submitted by Internationalis... on Mar 12 2018 16:19
West Virginia teachers who had taken the initiative to force their union into a strike demanding that the state pay their health insurance found out via a robocall last week that "their" union had accepted a promise of a 5% pay offer (which they did not demand) but with no settlement of their grievance.
