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Christopher Sloce, socialist writer and co-host of the It Can Be Done podcast, responds to Elif Batuman’s peice “Novels of Empire” This is the fifth installment of The Culture Column, a series criticizing the culture we have so we can create the culture we want. In the early days of the Ukrainian War, PEN Ukraine…

Target Workers Unite issues the following statement regarding the recent National Labor Relations Board judgement in favor of the workers who faced illegal unionbusting efforts by their management at Store 1292 in Christiansburg during their 2022 organizing drive After Target management engaged in illegal actions against Target workers in their attempt to unionize at Store…

The following statement from Target Workers Unite presents an overview of their joint campaign with South American unions to force Target Corporation to pay back stolen wages for Guatemalan Target garment workers and on the necessity of worker internationalism Since late 2020 Guatemalan Target workers, who make apparel sold at Target stores, have been fighting…

Blue Ridge Tenant Union organizer SNR provides an update on the situation for working families at Massies Mobile Home Park since reporting from their previous article “Wall Street Becomes New Slumlord in Southwest Virginia” When I last wrote about the eviction happening at Massie’s Mobile Home Park, it was October of 2022. The majority of…

The following is a response from the Communist League of Richmond to Tibor Szamuely’s piece “You Can’t Fight Meme Fascism With Meme Marxism” CLR is proud to have published our article “Patriotic Socialism and Transphobia” on our website and the Virginia Worker. We wrote this piece in part to draw a line of demarcation in…

The following editorial comes from Virginia Worker Editorial Board member Sal Rojo on the recent electoral victory of Democrat Jennifer McClellan and the support of union bureaucrats for Democrat politicians in general After the special election for Virginia’s 4th Congressional District to replace Donald McEachin’s long-held seat, Jennifer McClellan has been declared the winner over…

Former International Union Organizing Director of the Amalgamated Transit Union Chris Townsend provides this assessment on the on-going strike action by ATU Local 689 in Loudoun County, Virginia. He previously was an International Representative and Political Action Director for the United Electrical Workers Union (UE), and he has held local positions in both the SEIU…

Tibor Szamuely – editor of the Counter Attack Journal – offers this response to the Communist League of Richmond on their recent piece “Patriotic Socialism and Transphobia” The Insufficiency of CLR’s Critique of “Patriotic Socialism” A critical analysis of “patriotic socialism” which seeks to engage with those who might otherwise be misled by its superficial…

The following statement from the Communist League of Richmond responds to the trend of “Patriotic Socialism” and its reactionary content at odds with a Marxist politics “The workers will not allow themselves to be disunited by sugary speeches about national culture, or “national cultural autonomy”. The workers of all nations together, concertedly, uphold full freedom…

After our first year as The Virginia Worker we’re recapping our most read articles and viewed events of 2022. We have big plans for 2023 to expand our readership and further build towards our goals as stated in our points of unity. Some things to look forward to next year will be the launching of…