The recent barefaced capitulation of the leadership of the Boston Newspaper Guild – which belongs to the 700,000 (as of 2006) member strong Communications Workers of America – to the New York Times Co., prove, yet again, why these class-collaborationist traitors need to go lest they get another chance to sell out their constituents even further, if that were possible. The cynically constructed contract on the part of the 
Times Co., was crafted to punish the workers of the Boston Globe for the fall in newspaper sales over the past year – as if they were the ones to blame for this. The Guild hardly put up a fight; sickening: that is the only way to characterize the conditions the leaders formally agreed to in the recently adopted work contract.
The long-lived giant of the American auto industry – General Motors – headquartered in Detroit, Michigan (where half of the shutdown will take place, and has the highest rate of unemployment in the US) has not survived the world’s economic crisis and filed for bankruptcy on June 1, 2009.
This program of action was drawn up by Workers Power (US) to act as a unifying guide to all workers and, with them, their organizations in the United States struggling to resist attempts by the bosses to make them pay the costs of a crisis they did nothing to commit. The battle cry of the working class can only be at this point in time, "from resistance to revolution!"
The current program of the League for the Fifth International, adopted at the sixth congress and published in 2003. This program is essential reading for revolutionaries across the world in the fight for socialism
U.S. Labor in Trouble and Transition: The Failure of Reform from Above, the Promise of Revival from Below by Kim Moody, Verso 2007. Reviewed by Andy Yorke.
What caused the credit crunch? Some said lenders got “too greedy." Others blamed the regulators. Yet more denied it was even happening. The Credit Crunch – A Marxist Analysis offers a radically different explanation.
