Duterte's Strike Against the US Empire (tags)
Commentary on western news media's demonizing of President Duterte and the rub-out of history of US imperialism.
Longshore Workers Honor Picket Line, Shut Down War Cargo Shipper in Oakland (tags)
This can be an important first step toward the mobilization of workers power to shut down the war machine, but that requires a sharp struggle against the bourgeois politics of the antiwar groups and union officialdom. The OEA calls for money for schools not for war, as if it were a matter of budget priorities, and the PAC poster made a social-patriotic pitch to “Bring the Troops Home Now, and give them the care they need.” Such “peace is patriotic” rhetoric is a staple of the UPFJ, but all the antiwar coalitions make similar appeals to garner support from Democratic Party liberals. Revolutionaries and class-conscious workers, in contrast, emphasize that this imperialist war must be opposed by class war.
UCSB Students Rise Up, Strike Against War & Block Freeway (tags)
Nearly 1,500 UCSB students, staff, faculty members, and local residents participated in a powerful and transformative strike against war on February 15th. The day culminated with a mass sit-in on Highway 217 -- the main freeway leading to campus -- that blocked traffic for roughly two hours, followed by a lock-down of the campus administration building, Cheadle Hall.
Local Janitor’s Strike against Defense Contractors. (tags)
Local Janitor’s Strike against Defense Contractors.
Global Women's Strike/LA Action (tags)
On Thursday afternoon, March 10, a Global Women’s Strike action in Los Angeles brought together over 300 women and men, mostly young and mostly people of color demanding an "End to the Twin Terrors of Poverty and War."
Consumers On Strike Against the War (tags)
Oklahoma activists have launched Consumers On Strike Against the War. They are advocating that people target an economic attack on the white collar big money psycopaths running our economy and government (collectively known as the War Party) by spending less money and shifting their remaining purchases to locally owned, independently operated, businesses and cooperatives or collectives.
International strike against war, December 5 (tags)
INTERNATIONAL STRIKE AGAINST WAR, DECEMBER 5 The call for an international strike of pupils and students against war for December 5 spreads internationally. Some collectives created to prepare it ; others are in creation now. There are contacts in 16 French towns, and also in Algeria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Czech, Eire, Germany, Great-Britain, Hungary, Italy, Nederland, New-Zealand, Niger, Portugal, Russia, Rwanda and USA.
HIGH-SCHOOL'S STRIKE AGAINST THE WAR (tags)
This initiative proves that doing a strike against the war is a realistic objective for the movement against the war.