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By Mike Pappas / Left Voice The largest health care strike in U.S. history has begun, as more than 75,000 workers at Kaiser Permanente walked off the job this morning. The scheduled three-day labor stoppage comes after Kaiser failed to meet the demands of workers, continuing to prioritize their profits over patient care. The striking coalition includes eight unions representing health care workers from a variety of job descriptions and covers Kaiser facilities in California, Colorado, Oregon,

Labor protest via Wikimedia Commons By Tatiana Cozzarelli / Left Voice Yesterday, Joe Biden became the first sitting president to visit a picket line of striking workers. It is historic. A few hours later, Jacobin published an article entitled “The Militancy of the UAW Strike Forced Joe Biden to Take a Side and Walk the Picket Line,” by Nick French. Jacobin is right that Biden’s visit to the picket line results from the UAW strike’s strength. But Jacobin is dead wrong in its assessment that

In the face of widespread repression, South Korean workers are rising up for fair pay and labor protections.

Mlmonchamp via Flickr By Olivia Wood / Left Voice So far in 2023, nearly 600 anti-trans bills have been proposed in the United States, mostly in state legislatures. Some (83) passed, even more (125) failed, and the rest are sitting in legislative limbo. At the national level, attempts to ban gender-affirming care have failed to gain traction, but there is another bill making its way through the Senate with serious implications not only for trans youth, but for all young people and potentially

The “Socialism 2023” conference was dominated by the self-absorption and reactionary politics of the upper middle class milieu populating the DSA, the fraudulent “reformists” of the trade union bureaucracy and pro-imperialist state operatives.