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Build rank-and-file committees!

The World Socialist Web Site and the Socialist Equality Parties are assisting workers everywhere in the building of an interconnected network of rank-and-file committees, to organize a united counter-offensive against inequality, exploitation, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and the rapidly escalating imperialist world war.

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Join a rank-and-file committee!

There are now rank-and-file committees of autoworkers, educators, Amazon and logistics workers, postal workers, bus drivers, and many other sections of the working class.

Rank-and-file committees are of, by and for the rank-and-file workers, who have a different set of interests than management, the bosses, the politicians, and the trade union apparatus, who oppress workers in order to defend the profits of the ruling elite.

Contact us now to join a committee. If there is not already a committee in your workplace, industry or region, we will help you start one!

East Coast dockworkers: Unite with Boeing workers to build a movement of the working class! Build rank-and-file committees to take control out of the hands of ILA bureaucrats!

Dockworkers have immense power, but the question is how to use it. Establishing lines of communication with workers in other strategic industries, they must build their struggle into a broad counteroffensive by the working class against worsening conditions and automation-driven layoffs.

International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees•

No to wrist-slap fines for workplace deaths! Reject the National Steel Car/United Steelworkers-backed settlement for Quoc Le’s death!

The USW maintains we should leave the decisions to the courts where, apparently, major issues can be hashed out in an “independent legal forum.” The decision in the Quoc Le case, which culminates a sad nearly 4-year saga, has blown this “theory” out of the water and exposed the consequences of the USW’s efforts to subordinate our struggle to pro-employer state institutions.

National Steel Car Rank-and-File Committee•

National 24-hour stoppage by Greek rail workers to demand more staff and improved safety; protests continue in Iran by workers and pensioners over decline in living standards; teachers around Abuja in Federal Capital Territory of Nigeria on indefinite pay strike

Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

Rail workers in Greece in 24-hour national walkout to demand more staff and safety measures in wake of fatal rail crash and near miss; workers and pensioners continue protests across Iran over decline in living standards as NATO military attack grows imminent; teachers in and around capital Abuja, Nigeria on indefinite strike to demand 25 months’ pay arrears

Boeing machinist denounces company’s “Best and Final” offer

IAM negotiators, Boeing and the federal mediator will be meeting this Friday, no doubt seeking to avoid a situation in which Boeing machinists and East Coast dockworkers, who might strike as early as next Tuesday, are out at the same time.

Bryan Dyne•

East Coast dockworkers: Unite with Boeing workers to build a movement of the working class! Build rank-and-file committees to take control out of the hands of ILA bureaucrats!

Dockworkers have immense power, but the question is how to use it. Establishing lines of communication with workers in other strategic industries, they must build their struggle into a broad counteroffensive by the working class against worsening conditions and automation-driven layoffs.

International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees•
The pandemic must be ended!
How to end the pandemic

On October 24, the World Socialist Web Site and the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees brought together a panel of leading scientists to explain how the virus that causes COVID-19 could be eliminated.


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An open letter to the working class

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

Workers in the United States and throughout the world must decide to act collectively and finally put an end to the COVID-19 pandemic. 2022 must not be another nightmarish year of mass infections, illness and death!


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WSWS NEW YEAR STATEMENT
2022: Year Three of the pandemic and the emerging global class struggle

The implementation of a scientifically guided and progressive response to the pandemic is possible only to the extent that these policies find the necessary social foundation in a mass movement of the working class on a global scale.


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MAY DAY 2021
The founding of the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees

“The aim of this global initiative is to develop a genuine broad-based movement of the international working class, and to encourage workers in all countries to break out of the prison-like shackles in which they are confined by the existing state-controlled and antidemocratic unions, staffed by right-wing pro-capitalist executives.” – DAVID NORTH


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Statement of the international committee of the fourth international
Forward to the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees!

The International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees, with the political assistance of the Fourth International and the Socialist Equality Parties, will strive to unify workers in a common worldwide struggle, opposing every effort by capitalist governments and the reactionary proponents of the innumerable forms of national, ethnic and racial chauvinism and identity politics to split up the working class into warring factions.


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DAVID NORTH
Why are the trade unions hostile to socialism?

All over the world the trade unions, including those which were founded through bitter struggles led by socialist-minded workers, now play the leading role in enforcing the dictates of management.

In this lecture, delivered in Sydney, Australia in January, 1998, David North explains this profound transformation through an historical examination of the trade unions themselves.


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AUG 3, 2011 • TOM MACKAMAN
Thirty years since the PATCO strike

On August 3, 1981, 15,000 members of the union of air traffic controllers in the US—the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO)—went out on strike against their employer, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).


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