
On February 5th, 2018, writer and scholar Adolph Reed, Jr. gave a public lecture on Black Politics in New Orleans and Beyond to close out Sites of Resistance: An Exhibit Exploring the Geographies + Histories of Social Change in New Orleans....
Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2018 8:44AM


KPFA Pacifica WorkWeek Radio hears from former EPA scientists about the attack on science and the effect of attacks on the workers of the EPA whose job it is to defend the health and safety of the American people....
Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2018 9:22AM


Ian Allison a tech worker at Fujitsu UK and and a UNITE steward in Manchester talks about the attack on workers at the company and their effort to bully workers and retaliate against him and other union activists at the company....
Posted: Thu Feb 8, 2018 2:31PM

In the GOP tax bill, $5 trillion is given to households with over $1 million income. Seniors, the poor, children and students are attacked. The severe cuts to Medicaid, Medicare, HUD, Low Income Housing Tax Credits, SNAP, food stamps, WIC food assistance, Pell grants, the EPA, the Department of Education, the National Institute for Health and the Legal Corporation are sadistic. Are we headed back to the 11th century when narcissism and illiteracy were accepted and not overcome?...
Posted: Mon Feb 5, 2018 4:27AM


15 Colombian union workers assassinated in Colombia, Thailand child slavery, mammal murder for meat for 142 years, vivisection, theft of the world's water, monopolistic tactics, pricegouging...
Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2018 12:09PM


Palestinian Postal Services Workers Union PPSW president Imad A A Temeiza discusses the effect of the Israeli apartheid regime on workers and the need for international solidarity. Also Canadian Union Of Postal Employees Executive Vice President Dave Bleakney talks about why his union has defended Palestinian postal workers and the need for US trade unionists to defend their democratic and human rights....
Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2018 2:00PM


WorkWeek looks at the attack on AFT 6300 GEO UIUC Lecturer Tariq Khan and his family by Turning Point USA and how it is funding racists and neo-nazis to terrorize and attack left professors, lecturers and workers at universities though out the country....
Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2018 10:18AM


KPFA WorkWeek radio hears from South African Trade unionist about Trump's racist attack on Africans, Haitians and people from Latin America....
Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2018 10:01PM


The Gainesville Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee (IWOC) and the Campaign to Fight Toxic Prisons (FTP) have received a statement from prisoners organizing in institutions across the state announcing a new wave of strikes by incarcerated workers in Florida beginning on January 15th, 2018. This action follows on the heels of Florida prisoners' participation in the national strike against prison slavery initiated on September 9th, 2016, and a similar wave of strikes by prisoners on Augus...
Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2018 2:09PM

French railway workers demonstrated to free Ahed Tamini. See https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/tamara-nassar/israel-arrests-another-tamimi-teenager
Do you suppose American workers will do the same on Ahed's birthday, January 31, 2018?...
Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2018 7:33PM


The families of the missing Korean ship MV Stellar Daisy call for finding the black box, full disclosure and proper health and safety protection for all seafarers...
Posted: Mon Jan 8, 2018 2:52PM


Pacifica WorkWeek Radio looks at the removal of IBT Western Regional VP Rome Aloise and the charges against him. It also hears a report from the South African National Union Of Metal Workers NUMSA on their plans for 2018 and lastly why the IAM 1584 Henkel workers had the most important victory of workers on strike in 2017....
Posted: Fri Jan 5, 2018 10:16AM

South African NUMSA New Year's Day Statement...
Posted: Mon Jan 1, 2018 1:01PM


Three railroad workers are on trial in Lac-Mégantic, Canada for causing a massive train wreck that killed 47 people. The real reasons are the destruction of health and safety standards by the companies in the drive for greater profits. They are now targeting the railroad workers as the cause of the catastrophic dangers that they have created by deregulation and union busting....
Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2017 10:51AM


Scott Mugno is the FedEx vice president of safety, sustainability and vehicle maintenance for FedEx Ground and serves as chairman of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s OSHA Subcommittee. He has been nominated by Trump to be the Chief Of OSHA and has a record of mayhem on the roads of the US. He has also bullied, harrassed and illegally fired FedEx workers who are OSHA whistleblowers. One of these whistleblowers Gary Brent who was former FedEx Express Tractor Trailer Instructor and Safety Coordin...
Posted: Thu Dec 14, 2017 7:35PM


Anarchism is a philosophy which, over the years, has often been seriously misunderstood, thanks largely to the efforts of its enemies. But the situation seems worse than ever today, in that even those who call themselves anarchists sometimes lack a clear understanding of what it involves. Sometimes they accept the comic-book version of anarchism presented to us by the mainstream media and so help perpetuate that parody. Sometimes they undermine the whole sense of anarchism by trying to combin...
Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2017 11:39AM


Because of pressure from union busting Driscolls company Mexican farmworkers who are members of a union and have been invited to speak to US workers have been refused by the US consulate visas for their visit. This suppression of their free speech and right to directly communicate with US workers must be opposed. Call the US Consulate in Mexico...
Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2017 10:51AM


Former Federal OSHA Whistleblower Protection Program investigator and lawyer made a report at the Public Service International PSI forum in Geneva where he discussed the system corruption of US regulatory agencies like OSHA and the failure of these agencies to protect health and safety whistleblowers and the dominance of corporate fascism....
Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2017 11:29AM


International labor solidarity and against war was the focus of this video which includes video of the Korean general strike and the role of the KCT, ILWU actions, Japanese Doro-Chiba and the German GDL Berlin transit unions....
Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2017 4:23PM


Thousands of workers, students and activists protested against militarization of Asia, privatization and union busting in Tokyo on Sunday November 5, 2017. Also delegations came from the Korea Seoul KCTU, Berlin Train Drivers Union members and ILWU and CWA trade unionists from the US.
Trump is seeking to militarize Japan including providing it with nuclear weapons to threaten North Korea and China....
Posted: Mon Nov 6, 2017 12:06AM