NYC Nurse Strike Won with Rank-and-File Power
Rank-and-file nurses in New York City took the initiative to organize across hospitals in Contract Action Teams (CATs) and won their strike.
Rank-and-file nurses in New York City took the initiative to organize across hospitals in Contract Action Teams (CATs) and won their strike.
There are elections where nothing happens — this is often the case — but every once in a while there are elections where big things happen. The back-to-back primaries in New York on June 23 and in Colorado on June 30 were both the latter kind of event.
In a major electoral breakthrough, New York City DSA proved that voters will support an out-and-proud slate of socialist candidates.
Open and proudly socialist electoral campaigns have the potential to bring workers into our movement. DSA candidates who receive a national endorsement should lead the way in showing how this is done.
Our strike solidarity, Palestine solidarity, and socialists on Portland City Council laid the groundwork for a state rep win.
This May Day, socialists and labor activists in Louisville came together to celebrate workers, recruit organizers, and build the power to put people over profit.
DSA’s National Political Committee passed a set of four national priorities in April. NPC member Ella T. of Bread & Roses explains what’s in the priorities, why they’re important, and what it means that it was so hard to persuade the NPC that priorities are worth having.
For the first time, the Democrats’ center-right caucus holds a majority in Congress. But their growth is out of step with the party’s base — which means labor and the left have a huge opportunity.
Strikers can expect risk-averse advice from the “experts.” To win, rank-and-file members must be in on strategy discussions.
Zohran is delivering. But it’s a problem that workers are receiving the goods instead of helping win them.