Interventions in the Unions and on the Streets

Edition No.63

For March 8th, the comrades working on women’s issues prepared the party’s international manifesto, translated it into 10 languages. For International Women’s Day, comrades in Pennsylvania and Illinois distributed Party leaflets, the latter at an event organized by a local coalition of labor unions. Papers were distributed in Chicago while militants intervened in a march condemning the actions of U.S. imperialism in Gaza. In Virginia Party militants intervened with our press in large demonstrations against the new bourgeois administration organized by opportunists groups but that attracted many beyond it. Additionally the paper was distributed at multiple events opposing the forced mass deportations of immigrant laborers happening in the US in Oregon.

Party militants continue work in the Class Struggle Action Network where an online event putting forward the necessity for generalized strike action and class unionism featuring union militants from across the world will be held on April 27th. One Party militant in the National Education Association (NEA) recently put forward a resolution at a state level regional assembly for organizing the 3 million unionists to join the potential May Day 2028 General strike was narrowly defeated by a vote of 242 to 244 delegates representing 44,000 union members. In March and April, Comrades distributed our press at the statewide indefinite nurses strike in Oregon that lasted 40+ days. Comrades distributed our press at the Build a Fighting NALC (BFN) postal national day of action in New Mexico and in Oregon.

In Italy, comrades distributed the leaflet in Rome and Genoa at two demonstrations in March and April against the rearmament and war: one organized by the USB grassroots union, the other organized by a bourgeois party that in Italy now poses as a pacifist, with a large turnout, around 50 thousand demonstrators; this second demonstration attracted a participation that went far beyond that of the members of the bourgeois party that organized it.