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Maybe a General Strike Isn’t So Impossible Now

Alex Han Labor Notes
Photo of a massive rally shot from the back with the people facing a building in front and carrying signs. Our unions and other organized groups that are fighting for immigrant justice, tenant rights, and a fair economy, as scattered and weak as they may be—are the vehicles we have to organize a fightback against Trump's attacks on working people.

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We Need More Than a Party — We Need a Movement

Jenny Brown Convergence
UAW president Shawn Fain, speaking at a Center for Working-Class Politics and Jacobin event, emphasized the need for a political program that addresses workers’ most basic issues — and how a broad strike in 2028 could put them front and center.

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Labor’s Strategy Must Lean Into Synergies

Alex Caputo-Pearl, Jackson Potter, Jesse Sharkey and Stephanie Luce Convergence
The ferocity & scale of onrushing authoritarianism demand that we think beyond binaries. We can’t counterpose electoral & strike action: we need to do both. And we can’t decisively defeat MAGA without effectively challenging the neoliberal model.

Bloody Thursday

Nairobi Williese Barnes The Stansbury Forum
Pass the torch in remembrance, Brothers and Sisters, In memory, and In might! For every soul who dared say, no! So we could one day say yes to fair wages, Say yes to dignity!

Tidbits – May 1- Reader Comments: Children Deported; Judge Arrested; Is America Pissed Off Enough for General Strike-Happy May Day; Labor for Democracy; RFK Jr Ends Narcan Program; Appealing to Military-National Guard Not Comply With Unlawful Orders

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Reader Comments: Children Deported ; Judge Arrested; Is America Pissed Off Enough for General Strike-Happy May Day; 12 Unions Launch Labor for Democracy; RFK Jr Ends Narcan Program; Appealing to Military-National Guard Not Comply with Unlawful Orders
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