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To take on Amazon a proper long-term strategy based on union activity is needed
Community organising has been repeatedly shown to be ineffective – it’s time for a switch to industrial organising, based on socialist principles, writes NIGEL FLANAGAN
DENNIS BROE says media ownership is not only grossly concentrated in the US, Britain and France – new mergers are advancing the power of the rich to censor the news
Charles Lubselski pays tribute to a lifelong communist and supporter of the Daily Worker and Morning Star
Ten days after right-wing destabilisation attempts, Mexico’s leadership has emerged strengthened, securing historic labour and wage agreements, while opposition-backed protests have crumbled under scrutiny, says DAVID RABY
THE news that the US union RWDSU (Retail Wholesale Department Store Union) has lost the ballot for recognition in Bessemer is an immediate and crushing defeat but also raises a longer-term question — is US-style “community organising” finished?
The loss of this vote among 6,000 workers in Bessemer, Alabama, is hot on the heels of the similar outcome at VW in the same state.
What is even more remarkable is that this is in the plant where an estimated 80 per cent of the workers are black African-American.
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The largest to-date strikes organised by the Teamsters union rattled Amazon facilities across the US before Christmas
