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Video broadcast of @wrkrsstrikeback , hosts @cmkshama , @KailynMcK , and @Informal_Noun . News & analysis to beat the bosses.

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Seattle Democrats are attacking the historic minimum wage victory won 10 years ago by @cmkshama & the 15 NOW movement. They want to ram through a permanent 2-tier wage system affecting well over 200,000 workers. WATCH Kshama's speech & help fight back:
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We met California Democrat @RoKhanna on the @UAW picket line. Khanna was among many Democrats who voted to break a railroad strike last December. Now he wants photo ops with striking auto workers. Workers need leaders who fight for us, not ones who pay lip service & stab us in
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Last week, political commentator @ryangrim blasted our broadcast for raising questions about strike strategy, and what it will take to win @UAW members' demands, like a 40% raise. We think it requires an all-out strike, not slow escalation. Last year, Grim defended @AOC & the
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The most important union drive in the country is happening outside the small town of Florence, KY…at the biggest Amazon air hub in the world. Corporate media won’t report on it. But we're on the ground, helping to build this fight. Watch now:
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The Democratic Party is a graveyard for progressive movements. @CornelWest : “It’s no accident the Democrats support Cop City, the same way they oppose rent control….Something is rotten in the Democratic Party….and brother @BernieSanders & sister @AOC & the others are very much
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Watch Kshama & Bia interview independent presidential candidate Cornel West, whose campaign offers a sorely-needed left alternative for working & young people: “In the end, without mass movements, the best politician in the world is still shallow and
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COMING SOON...ON STRIKE! A video broadcast w/ Kshama Sawant & Bia Lacombe. Workers are falling behind. We're repeatedly sold out & betrayed. We need our own media & orgs to take on the bosses, their political servants & win. SUBSCRIBE & tune in Sept 14:
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THE CORNEL WEST INTERVIEW “Without a mass movement, the best politician in the world is still shallow and hollow” - @CornelWest Watch @cmkshama & @beatrizlacombe in Episode 3 of On Strike, as they interview independent 2024 presidential candidate Cornel West:
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Joe Biden's record: ❌Cut Medicaid ❌Cut food stamps ❌Ended child tax credit, pushing millions into poverty ✅$877B per year in military spending ✅$113B to fund the war in Ukraine @CornelWest : "the imperial policies abroad, tied to high military spending...[are connected
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What is the “Stand-Up Strike” strategy? Is it effective? Why didn’t @ShawnFainUAW and the @UAW leadership call on all 150,000 auto workers to strike together? Why hasn’t the union struck at the most profitable plants, like those that produce the F-150 and Silverado? Will the
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Sneak peek of the 1st episode of On Strike! @cmkshama and @beatrizlacombe discuss the fight for $30/hr & a union at Amazon’s biggest air hub, KCVG in Kentucky. Tune in next THURSDAY for frontline footage & strategies to win. SUBSCRIBE & tune in Sept 14:
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NEW EPISODE w/ @briebriejoy : A crisis has engulfed the Democratic Party, as calls grow for Biden to step aside & powerful sections of the Democrats try to ram Biden down our throats. Why are @AOC , @BernieSanders & the Squad silent? How can we build the
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How could the @CornelWest campaign develop into a mass movement that really threatens the political establishment? Kshama Sawant: “ @BernieSanders became such a threat because he was relentless in highlighting his demands, & the way he showed that was by hosting mass rallies…By
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The climate crisis is accelerating. @JoeBiden 's solution is to give billions of $$$ in subsidies to @elonmusk & the "Big Three" to build electric cars with non-union labor. We need to take big energy companies into democratic public ownership & run them under workers’ control &
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Biden’s defenders claim that he’s “as sharp as a tack”—that they can’t even keep up with his brain! These people are professional gaslighters. Working people should reject the Warmonger-in-Chief. Watch our latest episode w/ @cmkshama & @briebriejoy now!
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75 percent of Americans support the @UAW strike. We stand w/ auto workers & all their demands, including a 40 percent raise + COLA, & pensions for all. Some have expressed worry that the union's strike fund isn't big enough for an all-out strike. If the union launched a public
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🎥Our first episode is LIVE! Feat. the union drive @ Amazon’s biggest air hub, KCVG. 100s of workers have signed union cards, w/ bold demands like $30/hr. Corporate media hasn't covered this union drive. Workers need media of our own. Watch & SUBSCRIBE
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NEW: 11,500 writers organized with WGA have won historic concessions in their five-month, all-out strike against the wealthy executives of the multi-billion-dollar film & TV industry. 150k actors with SAG-AFTRA are still on strike! Watch now: Hear
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👇WATCH NOW👇 Jill Stein EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Democrats in Free Fall—Support the Independent Antiwar Alternative On Strike's @cmkshama & @KailynMcK speak w/ @drjillstein about the debate & how to build an alternative to the two capitalist parties.
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The Democratic Party is in panic over @JoeBiden . Workers can't accept being spectators in this ruling-class train wreck. We need to fight back. Watch @OnStrikeShow 's upcoming interview w/ @DrJillStein . Join Workers Strike Back today! @wrkrsstrikeback
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What do Drew Barrymore and Bill Maher have in common, besides being multi-millionaires? They both tried to scab during the writers’ strike and bring back their shows. But they were so thoroughly exposed for trying to undermine the writers’ demands that they were forced to give
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The Democrats are backing the massacre in Gaza, even progressive Dems like Sanders. Rashida Tlaib is the only one to take a clear position against the slaughter, but the Democrats voted to censure her for her stance. We need a new party for working people, not for the
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What the f**k happened to Medicare for All? NEW EPISODE! WATCH: 👉Why @BernieSanders , @AOC & Squad went silent & betrayed the movement 👉How M4A movement in CA led by @NationalNurses was killed by Democrats, business unionist leaders 👉Interviews w/
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Brand NEW episode! Exclusive interview with left, antiwar Presidential candidate @DrJillStein about what it will take to end the war on Gaza. Supporting Democratic candidates, like the warmonger-in-chief Biden, as the supposed lesser evil is a failed
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"In no shape or form should anyone support Joe Biden...historic amounts of people are rejecting the duopoly" WATCH @socialistMMA of @RevBlackNetwork w/ @cmkshama + @Informal_Noun on ending the war on Gaza, @DrJillStein 's campaign, & the path to a new party:
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Biden & Trump are both anti-worker, pro-capitalist warmongers. Not surprisingly, tonight's debate was a reminder that the Republican & Democratic Parties have no solution to the crises facing working people. Unions like @UAW should rescind their endorsements of Biden & begin
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Stellantis chairman John Elkann is a BILLIONAIRE, while auto workers like Lupe make less than $25/hr, even after 7 years! Watch @cmkshama and @beatrizlacombe discuss the @UAW strike, w/ interviews from the picket line: We stand with auto workers fighting for a 40% raise, an
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Ford & the auto companies are attempting to use electric vehicles as a weapon to break the union. Auto workers can't just "live to fight another day." As @ShawnFainUAW recently said, "Another day came and went over and over, and no one fought. This is our time. We call this our
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Big Three: Ford, GM, Stellantis Profit📈65% CEO pay📈40% Stock buybacks📈1,500% US Cost of Living📈20% Since 2019 Auto worker pay📉30% Since 2003 Hear from @UAW members about their courageous strike against the auto bosses in Episode 2 of On Strike:
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WATCH: healthcare workers & union leaders speak on how @BernieSanders and @AOC stopped fighting for Medicare for All & betrayed the movement. “I was so mad at him for abandoning us.” Watch @cmkshama & @beatrizlacombe in the latest episode of On Strike!
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How did one socialist, Kshama Sawant, upend Seattle politics? "... by breaking rules, by embracing confrontation, by picking an ‘unrealistic’ goal & building on it, dragging Seattle’s Democrats around by the nose." - @MotherJones Watch:
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Workers are taking on Bezos at the heart of Amazon's empire. They need strong solidarity from unions & community to win. 200+ rallied in KY to show @AmazonUnionKCVG that workers have their backs. Watch our 1st episode, all about this critical union drive:
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“I think this is an enormously important strike. I think there are questions of tactics, I think Shawn Fain has addressed this himself — a lot of UAW members actually would rather just go on an all-out strike… I think the question is, is this going to be enough to win back the
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NEW EPISODE: End the War on Gaza — How Can Workers & Students Fight Back? WATCH: The Israeli state’s brutal war on Gaza rages on, with over 7,000 dead. Biden and U.S. imperialism have blood on their hands. What is the solution to this crisis? And how can
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While Hollywood looks exceedingly glamorous from the outside, many writers report making so little money that they have to go on food stamps. Before the WGA strike, no matter how often a movie or show was streamed, writers got virtually nothing. Watch our full coverage of the
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78% of grocery workers can’t put food on the table. 14% have experienced homelessness. Yet Seattle Democrats like @CMTMosqueda voted to repeal hazard pay, w/ no opposition from @UFCW3000 leadership. Now, workers are organizing themselves as @PCCWorkersUnite , demanding a $25/hr
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The average American spends $12,900 a year on healthcare—2x the cost in other industrialized countries—but we're sicker than ever. We're in a healthcare emergency. So, what ever happened to #MedicareForAll & the progressives who once campaigned on it?
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Grocery workers w/ @PCCWorkersUnite are waging a militant fight for $25/hr & more. But their union leaders in @UFCW3000 are focused on keeping a good relationship with PCC management. The bosses will only respond if their profits are threatened—not by playing nice. Watch:
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The Democratic Party is in unprecedented crisis & has been forced to dump Biden. Working people should back @DrJillStein ! Watch @cmkshama ’s interview with Stein, discussing why workers & the antiwar movement need an independent, fighting strategy to win:
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Members of Workers Strike Back, @wrkrsstrikeback , voted almost unanimously to endorse @DrJillStein for President! Jill is calling for $25 minimum wage, Medicare for All, free four-year college, an end to genocidal war on Gaza. Join Workers Strike Back!
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NEW EPISODE: Watch Part 2 of our two-part special on Kshama Sawant, the socialist elected official who beat big business & DIDN’T SELL OUT: Why have @cmkshama & @socialistalt been able to keep winning victories for working people, while Bernie Sanders &
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As the Israeli state's war on Gaza goes on, we urgently need to escalate. Join @wrkrsstrikeback & @DrJillStein at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in August, to protest Biden, the warmonger-in-chief. Watch Jill Stein's interview: Students,
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NEW EPISODE: 👉 @UAW strike UPDATE! 👉Teachers ON STRIKE in Britain! Featuring on-the-ground footage from picket lines in the US & England! Workers need to strengthen these strikes & debate the best strategies to win their demands. Solidarity with all striking workers. ✊ Watch
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Have you heard about the low-paid school support workers on strike in Leicester, England? They do tremendous work caring for very vulnerable children with special needs. Like so many teachers and support workers throughout the US, they’ve been severely underpaid for years. But
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"Politics are a mess and demoralizing? Don't accept that. Your commute's too long and you're tired after working mandatory overtime? We need to fight against that. The only way we're gonna do that is if we get organized." TOMORROW, Sunday July 21 -- join Logan, @DrJillStein ,
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Workers need rent control. 39 percent of Americans have skipped meals to pay for housing. @CornelWest stood with @cmkshama in the fight for rent control in Seattle, while Democrats sided with landlords to kill it. @beatrizlacombe speaks with presidential candidate Cornel West
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“Progressive” Democrats like @AOC and @BernieSanders have stopped fighting for the demands they were elected on, like Medicare for All, and have fallen in line behind @JoeBiden . “There’s a lot of people in the progressive movement who really don’t have a deep cause. They just
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“Right now is the time to come together & demand what we need from these bosses. Right now is the time to strike” -Eddie, striking @sagaftra member & activist w/ @wrkrsstrikeback 🗓️ Tune in SEPTEMBER 14 for the 1st episode of ON STRIKE SUBSCRIBE now!
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Nurses in NJ #onstrike for more than 2 months, while facing attacks from the bosses & courts, are building a militant campaign from the bottom up to win better conditions for nurses & patients. Hear from Carol Tanzi, a rank-&-file leader of the strike:
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NEW: Half of Black voters say they want a different presidential candidate. What does this mean for 2024, and how can Black working and young people fight for a genuine alternative? Hear from activist & union member Ryan Watson in our latest episode:
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Brand New Episode: EXCLUSIVE w/ Pulitzer Prize-winning antiwar journalist Chris Hedges @ChrisLynnHedges ! Chris talks about the Israeli state’s genocidal war on Gaza, the role of U.S. imperialism & Joe Biden, the betrayals by Bernie Sanders & the Squad.
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NEW: Long before Bernie & AOC were household names, Kshama Sawant became the first socialist to win an election in Seattle in nearly 100 years. How did @cmkshama & @socialistalt beat the Democrats & big business OVER & OVER? WATCH Part 1 of our special:
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NEW EPISODE: Bidenomics = Workers Get SCREWED + Billionaires Make Bank @JoeBiden says the economy is doing great. Great for whom - billionaires? Working people are struggling with insane prices & wages that aren't keeping up. WATCH: The economic numbers
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ON STRIKE @UAW members speak out about their demands: 👉 40% raise! 👉Cost-of-Living Adjustments (COLA)! 👉END 2-tier system - pension & healthcare for all! Watch Episode 2 of On Strike now. News & analysis from on the ground of how auto workers can win
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NEW EPISODE: Millions are protesting globally against the war on Gaza, yet Biden & the Democrats refuse to call for a ceasefire & continue their push to send billions more to the Israeli war machine. We need a powerful mass movement to end the war!
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SNEAK PEEK: We're returning to the pitched battle to unionize Amazon at KCVG, where Amazon execs have massively ramped up retaliation. But @AmazonUnionKCVG isn’t backing down, they're taking the fight to a whole new level. Subscribe & watch on Thursday:
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The WHOLE ruling class is responsible for the FTX crypto scandal. Superstar celebrities took MILLIONS from SBF to promote what ended up being a huge scam: Bono( @u2 ), @TomBrady , #SpikeLee , @GiseleOfficial , @stephencurry30 , #LarryDavid . Politicians like @potus @JoeBiden ,
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You're not gonna wanna miss the episode we're dropping tomorrow! EXCLUSIVE interview w/ @UAW President @ShawnFainUAW by UAW rank-n-filer @julia_kobelt Fain: Chattanooga VW workers won their union election because instead of a top-down structure, we embraced a member-led union.
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Air traffic controllers who spoke with the New York Times said they believe a deadly crash in the US is INEVITABLE due to their extreme working conditions. It’s time to fight urgently to take back this industry from the billionaires. Full episode:
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NEW EPISODE: We’re covering two important struggles on different sides of the country—grocery workers in Seattle and nurses in New Jersey! Hear how they’re fighting to win by building militant rank-and-file campaigns from the bottom up. Watch now:
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NEW: Amazon Strikes Back—Bosses Retaliate at KCVG Air Hub Hear from KCVG workers & organizers, @cmkshama & @beatrizlacombe about the most important union drive in the country, and how workers are standing up to Amazon's escalated retaliation:
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Should @JoeBiden be supported as the “lesser evil”? Has voting for @TheDemocrats helped stop the rise of Trump & the right wing? @CornelWest : “I’m thoroughly convinced fascism will triumph if the only alternative is milquetoast neoliberalism.” Watch Episode 3 of On Strike now.
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“When you take one step outside of your home…you never trust that you will be able to live for one more second.” - Akram Al Satari, interpreter in Gaza Hear from @cmkshama , @beatrizlacombe & workers in the US & Palestine about the war on Gaza & movement to fight back in our
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This is what genuine solidarity in the workplace looks like: @AmazonUnionKCVG marched on the bosses to demand translation rights for immigrant workers because Amazon only writes documents & signs in English—it's a huge safety hazard. Full episode:
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FIGHT RACISM AT WORK Amazon workers w/ @AmazonUnionKCVG are demanding translation for all non-English speakers at Amazon’s biggest air hub. 100s of West African & Latino workers are @ KCVG. Amazon has virtually no translation services. Watch more now:
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Warmonger-In-Chief @JoeBiden or right-wing billionaire Donald Trump? Workers must reject this false choice. How can we fight to RESCIND union endorsements of Biden, build for mass protests at the DNC, & build the strongest vote for @DrJillStein ? WATCH:
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Watch Amazon workers EXPOSE management’s union busting: “We got called into HR to talk about the tables, and the size of the tables, and the location of the tables, and what kind of table was it... and do you think anyone was endangered because of it?”
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Join us in Toledo, where UAW is on strike! Hear from workers on the picket line & from @cmkshama & @socialistem about our analysis of the "stand up strike” strategy of @ShawnFainUAW & how we think workers can go all out to beat the bosses. Watch now:
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Amazon workers like @ray_burk_ SPEAK OUT about taking on Amazon @ KCVG, where the company invested $1.5 BILLION. “We were sending out more packages than ever...yet we weren’t receiving Peak Pay” Then they launched a union drive. Watch the full episode:
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The Democratic Party is in panic over @JoeBiden ’s disastrous debate. Workers shouldn’t accept being spectators in this ruling-class train wreck. We need to fight back. Watch our upcoming interview w/ antiwar Presidential candidate @drjillstein & help BUILD an alternative by
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Hundreds of thousands are voting “uncommitted” as a rejection of Biden & Trump. But we ALSO need to vote against both Biden & Trump in November, when it really counts. We need a new party for working people, and a step toward that is to organize to win
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NEW Episode! With special guest, Cora Bergantiños-Crespo @antikora83 . Cora is a geneticist, and the outgoing President of @CPWUAW or UAW 4100, the union of postdoctoral researchers at Columbia University and Mount Sinai Hospital. Cora talks to us about
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"There is nothing that can stop the growth of support for Trump other than starting to build a party that actually addresses the things that are important to working people... It's not a job that we can put off any longer." Full episode:
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NEW EPISODE w/ Nick Cruse @SocialistMMA of @RevBlackNetwork ‼️ What should workers do in this election, given the terrible options of Biden & Trump? How can we build the antiwar campaign of @DrJillStein & build mass protests at the DNC in August to end the war on Gaza? WATCH:
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Trump is blatantly anti-worker & anti-union. @Teamsters & @TeamsterSOB shouldn’t even consider support. But Trumpism itself is the result of Biden & Democrats’ betrayals of working people's interests. The labor movement must reject both Biden & Trump. Watch:
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Fight back against the Democrat’s funding of the Israeli war machine! WATCH the full episode on how the Democrats are propping up the war on Gaza, and their shameful refusal to vote for a ceasefire in Seattle. If you’re in Seattle, PACK CITY HALL for Kshama Sawant's resolution
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NEW: Bia interviews socialist activist Tom Crean about the new Cold War between US & Chinese imperialism. What is the new Cold War & how is it impacting all world events? How can working people fight against the horrors of imperialist conflict? WATCH:
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NEW EPISODE: Kshama Sawant interviews journalist P. Sainath about the lessons of the farmers’ & workers’ movement in India for working people internationally. Watch now:
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The tragic deaths of two @Boeing whistleblowers who courageously spoke out about about safety issues call for a thorough independent public investigation. On Strike has covered Boeing's shameful suppression of the safety problems and the nation's aviation crisis:
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The Democratic Party is a dead end for the climate movement. It’s not just coal barons like Joe Manchin—AOC stopped fighting for a Green New Deal a long time ago. Preventing climate disaster will require fighting for a new, working-class party:
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“It’s a farce” “The economy is going great if you don’t buy food, or pay for housing or gas.” - That’s what ordinary people think about “Bidenomics.” Watch the episode & subscribe to On Strike for the truth behind @JoeBiden ’s smoke and mirrors on housing
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Major unions like @NEA endorsed @JoeBiden last year, without even a vote of the members. Should unions stand by their endorsement of the Warmonger-in-Chief? Union members like Joe Sugrue say "NO" & are organizing to rescind these endorsements. Watch:
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📺Tune in TOMORROW as we return to KCVG and report from on the ground at Amazon's biggest air hub. Amazon management ILLEGALLY wrote up 11 workers for union activity. Workers aren't backing down. Watch TOMORROW on our YouTube channel & spread the word.
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Amazon recently issued final warnings before firings to 12 workers with @AmazonUnionKCVG for tabling outside of work. Workers say its a recent escalation in Amazon's effort to stop their unionizing efforts
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NEW: @cmkshama interviews journalist Suzanne Wrack about sports—can they be an important arena for class-struggle politics? Wrack is author of ‘A Woman’s Game’ & award winner for her investigation into abuse at the Afghanistan Football Federation. WATCH:
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Amazon’s union busting is truly vicious! WATCH our EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW w/ @amazoncause organizers at North Carolina's Amazon facilities. Amazon fired a union leader for using doctor-prescribed medication due to multiple amputations & has targeted another who's battling cancer.
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NEW EPISODE: Support for the genocidal war in Gaza is crumbling. How can workers & young people end the slaughter? Hear from union activist Joan Wright on how we can bring unions into this fight & build for national protests during the DNC August 19-22.
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👇👇NEW EPISODE👇👇 @cmkshama and @beatrizlacombe discuss @UAW strike updates, teachers striking in Britain, and the strategy needed to win! Watch episode 4 of On Strike now:
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What can rank-and-file public sector union members do when union leadership says budget cuts are inevitable? Hear from Joe Sugrue, educator & Workers Strike Back member, about concrete steps to fight back against the "death spiral" of brutal budget cuts:
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On Strike!
20 days
STUDENTS FIGHT BACK: School Shootings, Mental Health & Democratic Party Betrayals 📽️Watch our new episode about the dire mental health crisis & how Seattle students fought back & won $20mil for school mental health services, by taxing the rich. Watch now
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On Strike!
19 days
Democratic Party @MayorofSeattle Bruce Harrell & the all-Democrat @SeattleCouncil are attacking public schools, stripping $20mil from mental health services & threatening to close one-third of elementary schools. Some students are fighting back. WATCH NOW
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On Strike!
5 months
“20 million people were on the streets, the largest protests in the history of this country, and what changed?” NGO & other leaders of BLM, tied to the Democrats, refused to fight for the movement's demands. We need independent, working-class leadership:
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On Strike!
6 months
Amidst the scandals caused by their billionaire bosses, aviation workers are starting to fight back. On Feb. 13, flight attendants unionized with @APFAunity will picket at over 30 airports for a Worldwide Day of Action—join them at one of the airports listed below! Full
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Association of Professional Flight Attendants
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Join 100,000+ Flight Attendants industry-wide as we reject the 'status quo!' More info:
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On Strike!
3 months
NEW episode! Amazon Workers in North Carolina Fight to Unionize the Behemoth: EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW with Carolina Amazonians United for Solidarity and Empowerment (CAUSE), about their independent union and fight to unionize Amazon in the South. In this
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On Strike!
9 months
Sam Bankman-Fried was convicted for defrauding on the scale of billions of dollars. Crypto, NFTs & Robinhood were all talked up as new alternatives, but when working people invested, they had the rug pulled out from under them & lost their savings. If this sounds like your story,
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On Strike!
4 months
Neither Biden nor Trump offer a better future for working people: war, the cost of living crisis, and climate change are baked into the politics of both major parties. There are NO shortcuts: we need to build a new party for working people. Building it will take hundreds of
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On Strike!
4 months
NEW episode! Crisis in Haiti: Bitter Fruit of Imperialist Exploitation & Capitalism: What's the strategy needed to end the horrific gang violence in Haiti? Hear from our guests Toya & Eric, union members & leaders in @SocialistAlt 's Black Caucus.
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On Strike!
9 months
Check out this op-ed by our show's host, @CMKshama for more details on the shameful refusal of the Seattle Democrats on the City Council, even self-described “progressives”, to allow a vote on her resolution for a cease-fire in Gaza. We have a 2nd chance at winning this
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On Strike!
1 month
Stonewall didn’t happen by itself. The queer rights struggle was drawn from the experience of the women’s, labor, civil rights & antiwar movements internationally. What lessons can we learn for queer struggle today? Don’t miss our Pride episode! Watch now
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On Strike!
2 months
Trans rights are under attack, as Israel's war on Gaza continues. How can we defend LGBTQ rights, while rejecting Biden & opposing this genocidal war? On Strike speaks w/ queer socialists about the militant roots of Pride & the kind of movement we need:
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On Strike!
3 months
Watch On Strike's exclusive interview with @amazoncause union activists in North Carolina, on why they're fighting for at least $30/hour: Rent is high even for a crappy place. Some are forced to live in cars. Many hold down multiple jobs. And there's gas money, loan payments.
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On Strike!
9 months
NEW EPISODE: Sam Bankman-Fried carried out one of the largest financial frauds in history & last week was convicted on all charges. @cmkshama & @beatrizlacombe talk SBF, crypto & other financial scams endemic to the rotten capitalist system. WATCH:
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