Jacobin magazine, associated with the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), published a politically backward and reactionary article last week titled “The Case for Social Drinking.” In it, writer Ryan Zickgraf railed against reports that Americans' alcohol use has significantly declined in recent years, a healthy trend.
On Monday, hundreds of students and faculty at Cornell University held a meeting to discuss the Trump administration's attack on immigrants and the suppression of democratic rights on college campuses.
Republican Congressman Rich McCormick proposed in an interview that free school lunches be removed from schools and children be sent to work for low wages. Bans on child labor were hard-fought battles of the American labor movement.
Reporters with the World Socialist Web Site spoke with striking nurses in Chicago at the picket line on Wednesday. Read their statements.
In this interview, anti-war activist Guy Christensen shares his experiences, including being harassed by Zionists and targeted by the FBI for educating millions about the US-Israeli genocide in Gaza.
In a development of immense significance in the class struggle, Dakkota workers have sought to break the isolation imposed by the UAW bureaucracy and go on the offensive.
“The companies are making billions easy,” a striking worker said. “They’re not building the cars, we are. And then they want to give us crumbs and think it’s okay? It’s not okay.”
Last week about 100 package delivery drivers at Amazon’s DIL7 Delivery Station in Skokie, IL went on strike demanding wage increases, a standard 40-hour work week, and to protest union busting efforts by the company.
This is the text of the speech delivered by Andy Thompson, an IYSSE member in the US, to the 2024 International May Day Online Rally.
The University of Chicago sent riot police to attack and break up the student protest encampment. Students have been threatened with suspension and eviction from campus housing if they continue to protest.
The gathering in Chicago came amid a number of high-profile protests throughout the country earlier in the day when demonstrators blocked major highways.
On Wednesday the Quaker Oats Company announced it will permanently close its factory in Danville, Illinois. The plant will close in early June leaving all 510 workers out of a job.
There was significant opposition to the Gaza genocide in the March 26 Illinois primary.
Svart’s decision to step down from the top post in the DSA, one she has held for over 12 years, is one of many indications of a major political crisis in the organization, which functions as a faction of the Democratic Party.
One day before the City Council vote, high school students held anti-war rallies and sit-ins at City Hall to demand passage of the ceasefire resolution.
After months of complete silence on the attack on democratic rights on campuses, rather than opposing the right-wing campaign against Harvard University’s Claudine Gay, Jacobin has joined it.
As millions in the world are demonstrating their opposition to Zionism the DSA is scrambling to coverup its role in supporting Israel’s actions.
Ford Chicago workers spoke from the picket lines, demanding an all-out strike to win what they’re fighting for, including massive wage increases, COLA, pensions and more.
The strike authorization vote comes after workers voted down a proposed contract on August 6 that was backed by the United Auto Workers (UAW).
City officials in Davenport, Iowa announced June 5 that the bodies of three missing men had been found buried underneath the rubble of the collapsed apartment building at 324 Main Street.
