Elliott Murtagh

Writer for @WSWS_Updates covering NY, higher ed & Amazon. Member of @IYSSE_US & @SEP_US, fighting for a world based on social need, not private profit.

[World Socialist Web Site @WSWS_Updates]

"We have incredibly high caseloads, and we work really hard, oftentimes more than our contract hours." Public defenders on strike in the Bronx, New York City.

[Will Lehman | WillforUAWpresident.org @WillforUAWpres]

A high-ranking official of the United Auto Workers apparatus and supporter of UAW President Shawn Fain has posted a death threat against me. I will not be intimidated, and this campaign will not be stopped. I call on all workers to oppose this act of intimidation. Statement below

[David North @DavidNorthWSWS]

In the midst of democratic breakdown and oligarchic rule, historical understanding of the American Revolution remains critical. Join me and a distinguished panel of historians on June 25 to discuss its place in history. Register here: https://t.co/zXzTBbf5MU

[Will Lehman | WillforUAWpresident.org @WillforUAWpres]

Rank-and-file workers are calling on their delegates to nominate me for UAW president at this week's Constitutional Convention. Listen to what they have to say.

[World Socialist Web Site @WSWS_Updates]

"They are very hard workers. And we are very hard workers as well. And we deserve a fair contract as well." New York City bus operators support the Long Island Rail Road strike.

[IYSSE in NY & NJ @iysse_nynj]

On Tuesday, the Student Workers of Columbia-United Auto Workers (SWC-UAW), which covers over 3,000 student workers at Columbia University in New York City, announced that the UAW leadership rejected its request for strike approval. 🔗⬇️

[David North @DavidNorthWSWS]

Trump said: "An entire civilization will die tonight." We declare our solidarity with the people of Iran. The working class of the world must oppose this monstrous crime. It must be stopped.

[World Socialist Web Site @WSWS_Updates]

"Responsibility for defending democracy falls on you, the people": @EricLeeAtty, attorney for Palestinian activist @NerdeenKiswani , who was targeted by right-wing Zionist in attempted assassination plot, speaks at a press conference Monday in New York.

[World Socialist Web Site @WSWS_Updates]

"Never stop fighting, never stop speaking up for Palestine": Palestinian activist @NerdeenKiswani, who was targeted by a Zionist in an attempted assassination plot, speaks after press conference Monday in New York.

[Will Lehman | WillforUAWpresident.org @WillforUAWpres]

No worker should be meant to strike alone at one local,an attack against one of us is an attack against all of us. If we're going to lead a unified strike movement, we must do it ourselves. The UAW bureaucracy will not do it for us.
https://t.co/NnKKNmsPci

[Elliott Murtagh @Elliott_Murtagh]

The @iysse_nynj fully supports the demands of Columbia student workers & their desire to strike.

But UAW leadership—including DSA—tells @SW_Columbia to get in line & threatens receivership amid Trump’s repression & attacks at Columbia. https://t.co/YsEwUyPQkp

[IYSSE in NY & NJ @iysse_nynj]

Attend our public, in-person meeting on Saturday at 6:30 PM, "Stop the US-Israeli war against Iran!"

Attend to discuss what is driving the war, what the next stage of escalation could mean, and the program on which opposition must be based.

The Center
208 W 13 St
Room 202
NYC

[David North @DavidNorthWSWS]

On Sunday, the World Socialist Web Site is sponsoring an international webinar to outline a strategy and program to stop the brutal imperialist onslaught against Iran. The aim of this discussion is to place this event in its appropriate historical, political and social context.

[David North @DavidNorthWSWS]

The attack on Iran is precisely what was described at the Nuremberg trials of Nazi leaders in 1945–46 as a “crime against peace”—the “supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.”

[Will Lehman | WillforUAWpresident.org @WillforUAWpres]

Workers need a 50% wage increase NOW.

My campaign is demanding:
✊ Full wage recovery from decades of inflation
✊ Zero-layoff policy
✊ 30-hour work week, no loss of pay
✊ Company-paid healthcare
✊ Voluntary OT at 3x pay

If you agree, support my campaign for UAW president.

[Will Lehman | WillforUAWpresident.org @WillforUAWpres]

I'm announcing my campaign today for president of the UAW.

I'm a Mack Trucks worker from Macungie, PA.

My campaign will mobilize the rank and file to

1) abolish the corrupt UAW bureaucracy
2) put all power in the hands of workers

Class struggle, not class collaboration!

[World Socialist Web Site @WSWS_Updates]

Draft statement of the Healthcare Rank-and File Committee online meeting tonight on the attempt by #NYSNA to sell out the #NYCNurseStrike at 7:30 eastern come tonight and #discuss!

#nurses #nursetwitter #nursesSTRIKE

https://t.co/Cp7e7sa4aD

The Health Care Workers Rank-and-File Committee denounces the tentative agreements signed by the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) with Montefiore Medical Center and Mount Sinai Health System and calls on nurses to overwhelmingly reject the illegitimate effort by the NYSNA leadership to ram through these sellout deals.

NYSNA officials are rushing through snap votes Tuesday and Wednesday without giving nurses adequate time to review or discuss the contracts. This crude maneuver is aimed at breaking the unity of nurses, isolating the remaining 4,500 strikers at NewYork-Presbyterian, and forcing their surrender.

By accepting this agreement without the approval of the union’s local executive board at New York-Presbyterian, the top leadership of NYSNA violated the union’s own bylaws.This proves the entire process is illegitimate and no vote should have ever taken place. Rank-and-file nurses should demand an end to this sham vote and reject any results announced by the NYSNA leadership.

Nurses must demand the resignation of all those organizing this travesty of democratic procedures, and for a new bargaining committee to be elected by the rank and file. This committee should outline a list of non-negotiable demands, drawn up at mass meetings of the rank-and-file, and a new strategy to win the strike. This includes expanding it across New York, including the 11 other hospitals in the city and on Long Island where contracts expired December 31.

These agreements signed by the NYSNA leadership are a slap in the face to the 15,000 nurses who have spent more than a month on the picket lines, in the cold and without strike pay. They fail to address the central issues of unsafe staffing, overcrowding, and inadequate pay. At the same time, the TA does not reinstate fired nurses, effectively endorsing victimization, including the firing of labor and delivery nurses at Mount Sinai.

Nurses struck not only to defend themselves and their patients, but future generations of health care workers. This battle must not be lost. To win, nurses must take control of the struggle out of the hands of the NYSNA bureaucracy and place it in the hands of workers on the hospital floors.

At the same time, nurses can place no confidence in Democratic politicians. Governor Hochul has backed the hospitals’ strikebreaking efforts, while Mayor Mamdani, despite his rhetoric, has authorized NYPD arrests of protesting nurses.

Health Care Workers Rank-and-File Committee calls on New York nurses to unite with the 31,000 health care workers and 3,000 pharmacy and lab workers on strike at Kaiser Permanente facilities in California and Hawaii. These struggles must become the spearhead of a nationwide movement to defend workers’ rights and end the subordination of health care to corporate profit.

We further call on striking nurses to link their fight with the growing opposition to the reign of terror carried out by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), overseen by President Donald Trump and enforced with the collaboration of the Democratic Party. Nurses should help lead the fight for a general strike to remove federal agents from U.S. cities, end the persecution of immigrants, and demand the arrest and prosecution of those responsible for the murder of Renée Good, ICU nurse Alex Pretti, and the assault on constitutional rights.

[Health Workers Rank-and-File Committee @HealthRandF_Aus]

The hospitals’ threats are not expressions of confidence, but of nervousness. They are attempting to preempt a broader convergence of struggles by crushing the #nurses before such a movement can take shape.
https://t.co/KCP01sT6of

[Eric Lee @EricLeeAtty]

I was on MS Now tonight (MSNBC) discussing what I saw during the protests held by children & parents at the Dilley family detention center.

Families like the El Gamal family, who have been there for 8 months, are living in brutal and inhumane conditions.

Free the El Gamals!

[David North @DavidNorthWSWS]

Today's cold-blooded execution of a citizen of Minneapolis is Trump's response to yesterday’s powerful demonstration against ICE’s reign of terror. It is urgent that workers build a rank-and-file movement for a nationwide general strike!