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The meaning of the May Day 2021 Online Rally On Saturday, May 1, the International Committee of the Fourth International held its eighth annual International May Day Online Rally. The rally motivated and concretized the ICFI’s decision to initiate the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees (IWA-RFC). The May Day rally both reflected and anticipated changes in the world situation produced by the coronavirus pandemic. The ICFI has defined the pandemic as a “trigger event” analogous to World War I, which is accelerating all the underlying contradictions of the world cap...

Protecting America’s Workers Act Upcoming Congressional Hearing Biden Administration Labor Leadership Updates.  On Thursday, April 29, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, & Pensions (HELP) Committee held a confirmation hearing for  Ms. Jennifer Abruzzo to serve as General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and  Ms. Seema Nanda to serve as Solicitor for the U.S. Department of Labor.  In opening remarks, Senate HELP Committee Ranking Member Richard Burr (R-North Carolina) criticized the Biden Administration for what he considers its abrupt and unprecedented firing of...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: In September 2020, then-candidate Joe Biden promised organized labor that, if elected, he would be the “strongest labor president you’ve ever had.”  In his first 100 days in office, now President Biden has acted quickly and aggressively to make good on this pledge.  Some of these efforts have quickly come to fruition; the fate of others remains unclear and are likely to require congressional approval—no certainty in a Congress where both the House of Representatives and Senate are operating with historically narrow margins...

May Day 2021 and the global class struggle We are publishing here the opening report delivered by David North to the 2021 International May Day Online Rally held by the World Socialist Web Site and the International Committee of the Fourth International on May 1. North is the chairman of the International Editorial Board of the WSWS and the national chairman of the Socialist Equality Party in the US. In opening this May Day Rally, I am honored to extend the greetings of the International Committee of the Fourth International to the worldwide audience that is participating in this historic hol...

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