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The RWDSU’s debacle at Amazon The crushing defeat for the Retail, Warehouse and Department Store Union (RWDSU) at Amazon’s Bessemer, Alabama plant exposes the extent of workers’ alienation from the pro-corporate trade unions. In a facility with 5,800 workers, only 738 (less than 13 percent) voted for the union. The turnout for the vote was approximately 50 percent, and less than one-third of the votes that were cast went for the RWDSU. The results demonstrate that the campaign waged by the RWDSU did not reach the workers, who were either hostile or indifferent. The RWDSU is predictably ...

Chicago Tribune Condemned For Op-Ed On Adam Toledo, 13, Being Shot Dead By Police On 4/8/21 at 5:04 AM EDT The Chicago Tribune has been criticized for publishing an opinion piece which suggests that the facts need to come out about the police shooting of a 13-year-old Black boy before attempting to portray him as a "martyr." Adam Toledo was shot and killed by a Chicago Police officer in the early hours of March 29 after being chased into an alley. According to a police statement, the department's ShotSpotter technology detected multiple shots being fired in the 2300 block of S. Sawyer at aro...

Bessemer Workers Subsidize Amazon Through Local Tax. A Union Could Challenge It. The Amazon fulfillment warehouse at the center of a unionization drive is seen on March 29, 2021, in Bessemer, Alabama. Elijah Nouvelage / Getty Images Against all odds, the town of Bessemer, Alabama has made national headlines as the potential spark of a revitalized labor movement. Amazon workers’ fight to unionize the local BHM1 Amazon fulfillment center has put the capitalist repression of workers and class power dynamics — which Amazon so perfectly represents — in full view. One particularly shocking ...

How the Revolutionary Internationalist Organisation (RIO) is sabotaging the fight against the pandemic in Germany The pseudo-left Revolutionary Internationalist Organisation (RIO), which operates around Germany’s Left Party and the trade unions, is playing a particularly nasty role in sabotaging the struggle against the pandemic. RIO is the German offshoot of the Morenoite “Trotskyist Fraction-Fourth International” (FT-CI). In a statement entitled “#ZeroCovid: What are the tasks of the left and the working class?” the editorial board of Klasse gegen Klasse ( Class against Class ),...

Argentine Morenoites shrug off Trump’s coup On November 12, as Trump was inciting fascist gangs to help overturn his defeat in the presidential elections as he had threatened to do throughout the campaign, the Morenoite La Izquierda Diario website wrote that “everything indicates that Trump’s true strategy is not to entrench himself in the White House.” Instead, Trump hopes to “maintain the adrenaline” and avoid “tribalism” in the Republican Party. This statement, which was also published by their English-language website Left Voice, was a “criminal dismissal of the grave ...