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Resolution of the Working Youth Committee Commemorating the 80th Anniversary of the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU)

The Youth and Student Department of the Party of Communists USA endorses the following statement from the World Federation of Trade Unions. On October 3, 1945, in the ashes of the Second World War, in the Palais de Chaillot in Paris, trade unions from across the globe united to establish the World Federation of Trade […]

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UE: Vote to Block Offensive Arms to Israel Fails, but “Proves That Movement to End War Is Growing”

WASHINGTON, DC—On Wednesday, the U.S. Senate considered three “joint resolutions of disapproval,” proposed by long-time UE ally Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), which would have blocked U.S. sales of offensive weaponry to the Israeli military. The resolutions, in Sanders’ words, “are aimed at offensive weapons that have been used to devastating effect against civilians in Gaza

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Labor Political Action

Opportunism of Labor Leaders Evident from Post-Election Statements

Since Donald Trump’s election victory on November 5th, AFL-CIO affiliated unions have released statements commenting on where the Democratic Party went wrong. Even the AFL-CIO President Liz Schuler commented that, “it is clear that the economic struggle working-class people are facing is causing real pain and neither party has sufficiently addressed it”. While at face

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UE: Labor Movement Must Unite Working Class to Resist Corporate Agenda, Fight for Real Solutions

Statement of the UE officers For over half of a century, working people in the U.S. have seen stagnating wages, worsening working conditions, the loss of good jobs, and constant increases in the cost of living. This is the result of corporations’ never-ending thirst to squeeze as many profits out of workers as possible. Throughout

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Solidarity on the Docks: LUEL Joins ILA Pickets

Originally published by Labor Today – https://labortoday.luel.us/en/ On October 1st LUEL members up and down the East Coast went out on the picket lines to support the striking International Longshoremen Association (ILA) workers. LUEL Mid-Atlantic and Southern Chapters heeded the call of solidarity at outside Ports in Staten Island, Philadelphia, and Miami. The workers expressed

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Build a Labor Party to Unite the Working Class – UE General Executive Board

PITTSBURGH—Meeting on September 12 and 13, UE’s General Executive Board debated and approved a statement calling on UE locals and members, and the rest of the labor movement, to “get serious about building a true political alternative, a labor party that can unite and speak for the working class.” The statement notes that corporate control

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