Starting out, striking wasn't a legally protected activity. All the major rights we have as workers, from the 8hr-day to the weekend (to strikes), we won with "illegal" strikes.
SCOTUS throwing us back to square one? Wonder what they'll think of going back to square one tactics.
Why is it that every time a prominent fascist says something socialistic sounding people on here promote it positively & act like it's "based" and not the terrifying thing fascists have always done, which is redirect communist sounding jargon in order to lure people into fascism?
Something interesting happening in Germany. Four anarchists have been convicted & will serve jail time on charges of "criminal conspiracy" for "attacking" (literal) nazis. A sign of the times, I guess: Street-fights with nazis are back, and the courts are siding with the nazis...
Old McCarthy period joke: A cop is beating up & arresting protestors at a rally for being communists. One assaulted socialist speaks up, "But officer! I'm an anti-Communist!" "I don't care what kind of communist you are!"
Social democrats will again learn why solidarity matters.
A group of 55
@BernieSanders
supporters is on our way to
#NewHampshire
this weekend to knock doors ahead of Tuesday’s primary! We’re bringing in the
#PoliticalRevolution
with old labor songs modified to show love for
#Bernie
! No hay revolución sin canciones! 🎶🌹✊🏼
@philritz1
@ArtvWar
there are 118 billionaires living in this city, and through tax loopholes they give our city and state nothing in taxes. actually taxing those guys could cover the cost of a robust public transit system and much more.
This evening, I passed out
#KnowYourRights
materials with a Queens canvass that
@AOC
’s team set up.
A latinx woman asked me: “Oh, yeah, the raids start today right?” Hearing that out-loud, in such a conversational way, was chilling.
Help protect your neighbors.
#NeverAgainIsNow
"I don't want to scare you all, but you're helping start the revolution." -
@BernieSanders
.
Damn right we are. Thank you so much for supporting
@AmazonLabor
, Bernie. We won't let you or the workers down. Solidarity forever ✊🔥
The primary editor of Wikipedia is a fascist named Steven Pruitt. Steven currently works for the Dept. of Customs and Border Protection, where he's been for four years, and the 8 years before that he worked for TSA and ICE. For a little bit, he also worked in the Federal [1/9]
"Whenever I have to criticize a comrade, the first thing I do is try to protect him, to keep the criticism from being destructive, so it won't demoralize him and so, while serving as an example for the others, it commits and stimulates him."
Fidel Castro
The deathcount at the Amazon warehouse in IL went up to 6.
When workers die from laboring at Amazon, the boss doesnt care about us.
Unions were first formed in struggle against horrific work conditions that murdered people. Amazon workers form unions for the same reason today.
Had a great (and inspired) time at the
@ZephyrTeachout
and
@Ocasio2018
mini-rally earlier today. These women are helping lead a movement for a better world ✊🏼✊🏾✊🏿
Don’t forget to vote for Zephyr for NY AG on Thursday Sept. 13!
Police waiting with zip ties ready to arrest peaceful citizens at
#JordanNeely
Vigil.
Cops just grabbed me to prevent me from getting closer to other protestors.
Jordan Neely was murdered here, the NYPD let the killer go free, and instead they harass and assault activists.
Workers from the Department of Sanitation, accompanied by NYPD, cleared out the belongings of several homeless New Yorkers under the Brooklyn Queens Expressway in Williamsburg this morning
Had to go to the doctor in Kerala. World-class medical care! But they had to charge the expensive rate since I am not an Indian citizen. To see the doctor and get x-rays the cost was $13. The medicine was the pricey part: $48.
The US is such a barbaric country I could scream.
Stopped by the Starbucks in Astoria where workers are organizing a union with
@SBWorkersUnited
. Passed along love and solidarity from
@AmazonLabor
. The workers united will never be defeated! ❤️🔥✊
As
@FlyingWithSara
likes to say, there's never been a labor peace for labor. If the capitalists want to be reminded what Class War 101 fight-back looks like from workers, so be it!
#UnionPower
The workers at JFK8 have spoken and weeks ago voted overwhelmingly to join
@AmazonLabor
. The bosses refuse to certify the election results. We will not stand for this illegal union busting.
Recognize the ALU!!
Everyone needs to be following the action against Cop City. Massive raids, violence, and arrests of nonviolent Forest Defender protesters, journalists, and legal observers is already under way. Only day two of the week of action.
#StopCopCity
🧵The police purposefully murdered an indigenous environmental justice activist 6 weeks ago, and yesterday they literally threatened to do it again, telling multiple people they would be killed if they disobeyed.🧵
"I swear to God I will fucking kill you"
-a police officer, specific agency unknown, in the living room of the Atlanta Forest tonight, with his side arm drawn.
Absolutely disgusting the number of workers forced to work outside today in NYC, and without so much a penny of hazard pay. Yes, schools & SOME workplaces closed, but not construction, not food delivery. Just like with covid, the most vulnerable workers are treated as expendable.
It's hard to find any news about this story that isn't clearly part of a manufacturing of sympathies against the left. But criminal conspiracy charges are starting to come back with a vengeance against workers in class war, and all over the capitalist world.
No one online talking about
@Shut_downAmazon
leading many hundreds of militant workers in chanting "Cuba Si, Bloqueo No!" today in Times Square, but it was incredible. I almost cried.
Our labor solidarity will be anti-imperialist and internationalist or it is worth nothing! 🔥✊
DSA has a LOT of problems that need to be worked on, but the way many non-DSA marxists criticize the org is incredibly un-marxist, incredibly un-dialectical. There's no investigation of the internal conflicts, struggles, factions, contradictions. Just boring dismissal. Do better.
If y'all can be in NYC on May 20th, come out to this! Every housing rights group and socialist organization is going to be there -- we are coming together to DEMAND accountability from our electeds.
@NYCMayor
&
@GovKathyHochul
, the rent is too damn high!
I broke my shoulder tonight. I almost didn’t go to the hospital because I’m out of state and completely out of network, and being incredibly underemployed, I’m terrified of the costs. My brother had to basically scream at me over the phone to make me go.
We need
#MedicareForAll
.
@CynthiaNixon
and
@Ocasio2018
’s respect of non-binary gender identities “should not be a surprising rarity among Democrats — it should be the minimum acceptable standard for anyone who claims to be an ally of transgender and gender nonconforming people.”
@latkedelrey
@zukosmadre
In my experience, this is only true with the microwave. I reheating in the oven or on the stovetop (depending) gives you more control.
A Black man was lynched on Tuesday, for the crime of being homeless. His killer walks free. All across the US, working class people are watching NYC. We demand justice!
@ManhattanDA
must act!
#JusticeForJordanNeely
The bosses still had night-shift come inside to work, even tho there was still a lot of smoke in the building! It doesn't matter if the fire was out, smoke inhalation is serious business! But workers are forced to choose rent over their own lives. WE SHOULDN'T HAVE TO DO THAT!
Just got word JFK8 Staten Island Amazon caught fire 🔥 praying everyone made it out safely 🙏🏽. We have some disturbing updates lack of safety drills as you can imagine on Amazon end thankfully the union demanded folks to be sent home immediately.
@amazonlabor
“We proposed an expiration date [that] allows us to strike on May Day. We invite unions to align their contract expiration dates with our own […] If we’re going to truly take on the billionaire class […] it’s important that we not only strike but strike together”
@ShawnFainUAW
Why be a YIMBY when you could just seize all the property of the capitalists and developers using it for speculation and airbnb bullshit? We don't need to build more housing for speculators to buy; we need to take what was stolen from us and make it all social and public housing.
As an Amazon worker and proud ALU member, let me ask: How do you think this nonsense 🧵 helps the workers and exactly how big is your ego that you felt the need to tweet it?
This is not only a complete misreading of Marx, this kind of "theorizing" actively supports the bosses.
The definition of proletarian matters because it distinguishes reactionary unions of bourgeois service work from proletarian labor which is unionized. The amazon union is proletarian. The starbucks union is not. If you don’t understand this, you never will.
Had breakfast with legendary labor organizer Bea Lumpkin this morning (she made us omelettes). Before sitting down to eat, she said, "Let me give you something to talk about." And at the age of 105, then proceeded to show off a dozen push ups! 💪
Communism keeps you young!!!
My flight this morning was delayed an hour and a half. And this is how I found out the flight attendants who also must stand around waiting for their flights are not paid to wait! Even with a union contract, they don't get paid until the doors of the plane close for departure! 😡
@newleftpress
You defend american-style "freedom of speech" as sacrosanct but can't take the slightest push-back? Interesting.
So you're just gonna block people who ask pretty straight-forward yet inconvenient questions about your new and obvious op?
Shoutout to the person at the South Carolina Democratic Convention who brought the
@BernieSanders
cutout and dressed it in a Bernie shirt 😂
@People4Bernie
Two
@AmazonLabor
organizers --
@matqsick
and
@Tristan1Lion
-- have been fired from Amazon in the last 4 days. 😡
Amazon will continue trying to retaliate against worker organizers as long as we fight. But this will only strengthen our resolve. The bosses can't stop ALU. ✊
Absolutely cannot get over Amazon management telling workers to "Be empathetic... like the wife of a fascist!" and to "Be adventurous... and die in a plane crash!"
¡¡HAPPY WOMEN'S MONTH!!
Judiciary and counseled on "federal ethics" (...Cute). He has active secret-level clearance with the DHS. He was literally a LEAD TRAINER with ICE, developing and implementing training strategies for kidnapping immigrants; he managed and coached teams on immigration [2/9]
NYC TONIGHT, 6/24: unions, left groups, and angry activists will gather at 6:30 at Washington Square Park for a pro-abortion / anti-SCOTUS rally and march.
#protest
#dobbs
#DefendAbortion
narrative everywhere about him? Because HE CONTROLS A LOT OF INFORMATION PEOPLE INHERENTLY TRUST ONLINE. But he is the goddamn poster child of the "HIRE 👏 MORE 👏 WOMEN 👏 GUARDS 👏" meme.
Wikipedia can be a good source to start from, but you gotta know who writes & edits [6/9]
Like jesus fucking christ, no wonder so many people who front as communists on social media are falling for 4th Political Theory, do people have no sense that fascists have ALWAYS done this?
seems to be tracking down "illegal aliens" and other "violators" of the nationalist American way of life.
He is fucking gestapo. He is a nazi. People will argue a lot of what he's done previously and does now is data/IT management and analysis... Ok, well, even [4/9]
Growing up Cuban-American and not learning the truth of the heroism of Fidel until after his passing is a heartbreaking and enraging feeling.
But it's one that will propel me to fight to end the embargo and US imperialism until my dying breath of that's what it takes.
@BuenoForMiami
@GreciaOrdonez87
i was brought up my entire life to believe che and fidel to be villains. it's a lie. and i will never forgive those that made me believe this while fidel was still with us.
"Every single person... who built this labor movement... who fought for civil rights... were called terrorists! Our enemies are not in Gaza; our comrades are in Gaza!"
A true leader in the CT
@SEIU
& CPUSA Labor Commission, I am so proud to call
@KooperCaraway
my comrade. ✊🔥
Then Sanders is choosing to be on the wrong side of history on this issue. ICE was created under Bush-Cheney and has done what they wanted it to do, particularly under Trump. It can’t be reformed.
HORRIBLE! Today,
@KooperCaraway
was forced to resign from SEIU for standing up for peace & justice everywhere.
Every single politician & labor official who cowers to pressure to cover up for genocide is acting as an enemy of the international working class.
#WhichSideAreYouOn
"Every single person... who built this labor movement... who fought for civil rights... were called terrorists! Our enemies are not in Gaza; our comrades are in Gaza!"
A true leader in the CT
@SEIU
& CPUSA Labor Commission, I am so proud to call
@KooperCaraway
my comrade. ✊🔥
what you read. And you gotta take everything from the site with grain of salt. Especially the political stuff. Especially because Pruitt is openly anti-Communist, and creates explicit narratives against socialism and against the USSR and socialist governments, citing [7/9]
if that's true, what exactly IS the "data" tracking???
This isn't a secret; it's on his fucking LinkedIn. And if I see one more article praising him for the work he does to fix the "gender imbalance" on Wikipedia I'm going to LOST MY MIND. Why do you think that's the [5/9]
At vigil for
#JordanNeely
,
@BxOrganizer
speaks about the complicity of politicians, media, & profit in the murder of Jordan. A capitalist & racist system that leaves people homeless, hungry, without healthcare, a fascist police force that condones lynching.
#JusticeForJordanNeely
The General Manager of JFK8 attempted to threaten & intimidate workers with
@AmazonLabor
today, for simply sitting & participating respectfully — much more respect than they gave us! — in their union-busting meeting. A violation of legally protected union organizing activity!
EXCLUSIVE: In video leaked to SC, an
@amazon
executive at JFK8 Staten Island—which recently won the right to hold a union election— demands workers not scheduled to be in mandatory union-busting session to leave.
Many of workers told to leave were
@amazonlabor
union organizers.
I’m a keep it G the Teamsters not Striking did NOT move Labor forward at all we need to stop lying to ourselves the only way Labor moves forward in this country is by changing these old ass Federal laws. The system isn’t designed to help workers and there’s no accountability
@FelipeDLH
A couple months ago I saw a clearly homeless person removed from the train, not even muttering to himself. Just homeless and *sitting* there. Removed by 2 cops. Disgusting.
detention methods (on "handl[ing] increases in workflow") at field offices NATIONALLY. Before that he was a "travel coordinator" for ICE, making sure agents could hunt, hurt, and kill people more easily and smoothly. His primary passion outside of editing Wikipedia [3/9]
What a fun way for everyone around the world to be discovering that "free Tibet" meant "return Tibet to a feudal-slave society that backed the nazis and loves creepy underage sex like most other rich weirdos in charge of feudal societies" and not like "peace & love are good, man"
Yes. But getting here takes YEARS and strong organization.
A general strike requires orgs planning together in coalition under the leadership of a designated body coordinating everything.
We need labor union density, tenant orgs, mutual aid groups. And a strong Party.
Organize
It’s time to general strike. People are dying. Everything is overpriced. No one is valued. They’ve intentionally broken up our communities so we don’t think we can make it without continuing to make (them) money. We need a general strike or things will stay the same.
It's comments like this that make everyday people really excited about the fact that China executes billionaires for the crimes they commit against humanity.
Property developer and CEO Tim Gurner: "We need to see unemployment rise. Unemployment has to jump 40, 50 percent in my view. We need to see pain in the economy. We need to remind people that they work for the employer, not the other way around."
Now is not the time for your sectarianism. I don't care if you hate Communists (or communists) or democratic socialists or social democrats or anarchists. The time for petty bullshit is over. The fascists want to kill all of us.
@EcoTechBro
The comments in response to the OP are absolutely vile. Terrifying times, right-wing vigilantism increasing everywhere as liberalism fails to do ANYTHING to stop it.
his mother being from the USSR... He's actually been pretty open about the fact that he cares so much about his voluntary Wikipedia work BECAUSE he's opposed to Communism, and does the work in support of "democracy" and "freedom of information"... [8/9]
@ReformALU
won the referendum! There will be ALU leadership elections for the first time, this year in June.
Rank-and-file organizing continues to make the Labor movement stronger, and we're not stopping till Amazon gives us a fair contract.
Stay tuned for more updates!!! ✊
Joe McReynolds literally works for the CIA. Even wikipedia notes that the Jamestown Foundation is funded by the CIA. It exists to go after "enemy" states & was founded under Reagan to do so.
That he is allowed in DSA should show it can't be a serious org.
Block & ignore him.