By Piper Tompkins
As if climate change, covid-19, racial tensions, and economic woes weren’t enough, war has broken out in Europe with a major power, Russia, invading a nation that used to be part of its empire, Ukraine. Despite the …
Read moreCategory: International
WSA Solidarity Statement on Palestine
Stop Israeli Attacks on Gaza! For Joint Struggle against Racism and Militarism!
The WSA Solidarity Committee strongly denounces the Israeli military’s merciless assault on the Gaza Strip, beginning on Monday, May 10, which has killed at least 137 …
Read moreInternational Women’s Day Statement
Today is international women’s day, a day for appreciating the status of women in the modern world. It was on this day that women textile workers kicked off the February Revolution against the Romanov Empire with a demonstration, creating a …
Read moreWorkers’ power not bureaucrats’ power: lessons from Argentina
By Jonathan Payn, South Africa
Around the world the ruling class (capitalists, politicians and state managers) is trying to restore its profits by making the working class pay for the economic crisis. One way capitalists do this is by retrenching …
Read moreFrom down under in New Zealand/Aoteara…
Friends and comrades in the health care sector have initiated the Health Sector Workers Network (Aotearoa/New Zealand).
According to one of their websites the “…Health Sector Workers Network collective aims include agitating for better conditions for people — both …
Read moreAcross the Pond: Brighton Solidarity Federation in Action
Brighton SolFed has started 2018 with 6 ongoing housing struggles and, to meet increasing demand, our housing union is now holding a weekly drop-in at a city centre café. The idea is that we can collectivise housing issues by gathering …
Read moreWSA Statement on Catalan Independence
Over the past few weeks Catalans have waged a political struggle for an independence referendum. Catalonia is Spain’s most economically important region and has it’s own culture which could be separated from that of Spain generally. Catalans desire independence because …
Read more