After the Friedrichs Scare
US public sector unions have gotten a reprieve. Will they use it to rebuild, or squander the opportunity?
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Issue No. 22 | Summer 2016
Rank and File
The class war between employers and workers over the product of Labor goes on without letup. “Settlements” in wage movements, whether these are accompanied by strikes or not, are at best only truces in the ceaseless struggle, only turning points where the struggle takes on new forms. The employers will continue to try to destroy the workers’ standard of living and break the unions; the workers will continue to build their unions and to advance their interests. Organization campaigns, strikes, settlements and their aftermath, are but various phases of the one great process of class struggle under capitalism.
Beyond Social Movement Unionism
Bringing together weak unions and weak social movements isn’t enough. We need a new kind of socialist party.
Everything Old Is New Again
Rebuilding the labor movement will take organizing, not just mobilizing.
From Class to Special Interest
Why are US unions less powerful than their Canadian counterparts?
Rank and File
Without a socialist left, both inside and outside of unions, organized labor will continue to lose ground.
The Forgotten Militants
Weak working class resistance is rooted in the loss of radical trade unionists.
The Long Road to Crisis
The dismantling of autoworker gains was a class project, not the inevitable result of globalization.