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See also: Weekly Worker: A Little Light on the W W Group ("CPGB") Song of the Weekly Worker: I'm so small! But I'm poisonous too; What I say is at best but half-true: I spread gossip thin, So they'll think I'm well in; But I'm useful, torn up in the loo! *(And see appendix by the Marxist-Limerick Tendency) The contradictions of the 'CPGB'/WWGBy Sean Matgamna

Matt Merrigan was a member of the small Irish Trotskyist group in the 1940s, the Revolutionary Socialist Party, and a socialist all his life. He eventually became president of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, and died in 2000. In the mid-50s, for a while, he wrote reports on Ireland for Labor Action, the paper of the Independent Socialist League of Max Shachtman, Hal Draper, and others in the USA.

Looking back on 2021, the Aspen Institute Business & Society team shares the writing they were most proud of.

1976 novel by Fredy Perlman, written as fictional letters between two Eastern European workers, Yarostan Vochek and Sophie Nachalo, who are separated after a failed revolution. Yarostan spends twelve years in statist jails, while Sophie escapes to the West. After twenty years without contact, they begin to write each other about their experiences, their lives, their hopes, and their memories of the past.

NC Association of Educators; Matt Aber-Towns; teacher advocacy; executive director; Tamika Walker Kelly; Idaho; National Education Association

/ Bridget Hughes is a part of Stand Up KC, an organization advocating for a $15 minimum wage. Kansas City’s 311 hotline was set up to be a resource for residents to document workplace complaints, like a business violating COVID-19 regulations, but the health department has struggled to follow up on dozens of complaints about job safety. For workers living on the edge, missing a paycheck can be crushing. “Ive gone to work sick,” McDonald’s worker Terrence Wise said. “This COVID disast...

Academia is a labor struggle and should be treated as such.

GSA spotlights “Worker Voice” in fight to ensure fair labor standards By Share A new white paper commissioned by Global Seafood Assurances (GSA) is offering a comprehensive look at the tools and resources that exist to ensure social welfare on board the world’s fishing vessels. The paper, Worker Voice on Fishing Vessels, documents the initiatives, organizations, and projects available around the world that offer fishing crews a means to voice concerns, have influence over matters tha...