New River Workers Power

Building independent workers power across the New River Valley

[The Virginia Worker @virginia_worker]

How did we move so quickly from this militancy to the tepid consumption of Black History Month displays at local Target stores selling Black business trinkets manufactured by Chinese workers?

Full article at:
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[The Virginia Worker @virginia_worker]

"Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 689, which represents about 638 bus operators and mechanics for Fairfax Connector, announced the strike just after midnight today (Thursday). Workers began hitting picket lines at garages"

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[The Virginia Worker @virginia_worker]

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[The Virginia Worker @virginia_worker]

Virginia Worker member Sal Rojo weighs in on the debate over marxist organization that has been happening at Communaut for the past year between two main tendencies which situate themselves as either “revolutionary social democracy” or council communism:

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[The Virginia Worker @virginia_worker]

The media you read and the trailers you rent are all controlled by the same cutthroat hedge fund that’s stealing from the poor, making people homeless, and keeping us dumb

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[The Virginia Worker @virginia_worker]

We need labor leaders who recognize and fight from a position which understands workers and bosses having nothing in common. That no union should be wasting dues on funding capitalist parties and politicians. That unions must only support a workers party
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[The Virginia Worker @virginia_worker]

20 year veteran prison guard Jim Gibson speaks out on the culture of abuse within the VADOC, with his most recent experience at the Cold Springs Unit in Greenville. Gibson has been stonewalled by officials as he seeks accountability:

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[The Virginia Worker @virginia_worker]

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[The Virginia Worker @virginia_worker]

Prisoners at Red Onion prison located in Pound, VA launched a hunger strike after being subjected to long term solitary confinement. Since then more than 14 prisoners have maintained the strike demanding an end to the practice:

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[The Virginia Worker @virginia_worker]

"Since December 26th, 2023, 14 prisoners at Red Onion State Prison located in the southwest Virginia town of Pound have been sustaining a hunger strike over the human rights violation of long term solitary confinement."
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[The Virginia Worker @virginia_worker]

Editor of the Counter Attack Journal – Tibor Szamuely – offers this response to Rick Amherst’s article “First Things First: Stop the Genocide” in an ongoing exchange over the orientation and priorities of marxists on the Palestinian question:

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[The Virginia Worker @virginia_worker]

Virginia Worker Editorial Board Member Rick Amherst responds to Sal Rojo’s latest editorial ‘Neither Zionism Nor Hamas’ on what they think the priorities should be for marxists on the Palestinian Question:

https://t.co/mZynQBfZjK

[The Virginia Worker @virginia_worker]

For those in southwestern Virginia:

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[The Virginia Worker @virginia_worker]

The Virginia Worker Editorial Board Member Sal Rojo argues the only resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is rooted in a socialist and internationalist politics against the nationalisms of Zionists and Hamas

https://t.co/evP0I0ZB9i

[The Virginia Worker @virginia_worker]

If you couldn't make our first introductory session to our Marxism 101 course, you can now view it on our youtube channel here:

https://t.co/75l8TmtbSA

[The Virginia Worker @virginia_worker]

As Starbucks workers launch their Red Cup Rebellion strike action nationwide we sat down with worker organizers at the Ashbrook Marketplace location in Ashburn, Virginia on the course of their militant struggle over the past two years

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[The Virginia Worker @virginia_worker]

The Virginia Worker correspondent Christopher Sloce interviews IAFF 539 President Kurt Detrick on the challenges eastern Virginia firefighters face and their ongoing struggle to win the right to collectively bargain in the city of Portsmouth:

https://t.co/CxJCMfHmDH

[The Virginia Worker @virginia_worker]

last chance to register!

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