US MOTOR WORKERS, UAW, STRIKE: STAND UP AND FIGHT! - YouTube The 2023 United Auto Workers strike in the USA has excited the interest of unionists internationally. After decades in which wages have slumped and union membership declined suddenly the American workers were striking, gaining 20% increases and workers are returning to trade unions again. What has caused this sudden upsurge in US … [Read more...]
THE USA AND CHINA – Is there a danger of a new world war?
A Workers’ International Network meeting - May 2023 THE USA AND CHINA Is there a danger of a new world war? - YouTube The United States of America is by far the most powerful country in the world, economically, politically and militarily; but it is in terminal decline. China still has nowhere near the power of the USA, but its economy has grown at an unprecedented rate over the last … [Read more...]
THE BLACK PANTHERS: THEIR LIVING HERITAGE AND THE STRUGGLE FOR SOCIALISM
A WIN Zoom Discussion · (18) THE BLACK PANTHERS: THEIR LIVING HERITAGE AND THE STRUGGLE FOR SOCIALISM - YouTube Black self-defence against the police! Community programmes! Class action! These were the foundations of the Black Panther Party, a movement which inspired millions in the USA in the late 1960s. The FBI declared the Panthers “the most … [Read more...]
THE REAWAKENING OF THE AMERICAN WORKING CLASS
THE REAWAKENING OF THE AMERICAN WORKING CLASS - YouTube WIN Discussion September 2022, focusing on the resurgence of working-class militancy in the USA. Listen to on the spot reports from veteran trade union activists Jack Gerson (Teachers' Union) and Richard Mellor, editor of the famous blog Facts For Working People. Last June we discussed the growing crisis in US society: … [Read more...]
WHERE IS AMERICA GOING?
A Workers’ International Network meeting, Sunday 12th June When Trotsky passed through the USA en route back to Russia in 1917, he celebrated his “peep into the foundry in which the fate of man is to be forged”. America was already the most dynamic capitalist power. Then, following two world wars which had devastated Europe, for most of the twentieth century and beyond the USA was far and away … [Read more...]