The Virginia Worker

Richmonder Dearil Mercier submits the following article on the Virginia Commonwealth University encampment and protests against the Israeli assault being waged upon Palestinians in Gaza. They posit what this movement means in relation to the broader class struggle. Only four years have passed since the historic uprisings of 2020 against the tradition of brutalization by…

James Haywood responds to Keith Jay’s piece The Only Thing Left To Do arguing for the need to first build a revolutionary marxist core to successfully intervene in the class struggle across the state of Virginia. After more than a year since publishing “The Only Thing Left to Do” we’ve finally committed to a response…

Virginia Worker Editorial Board Member Sal Rojo argues against the unfounded claims of a labor revival for the US working class while drawing parallels between our current period and those of the 1920s when the “fall of the house of labor” occurred in part due to union leadership mismanagement, as well as the response from…

Virginia Worker Editorial Board Member Sal Rojo reflects four years on from the massive George Floyd Uprising in 2020 and how quickly it was contained by the state, capitalist parties and their networks of nonprofit organizations “workers were losing their age-long faith in the permanence of the system which oppressed them and began… I shall…

After months of Red Onion prisoners on hunger strike, especially politicized prisoner Kevin ‘Rashid’ Johnson, local resident Olajean Ray provides the following insight on what it’s like living near two supermax prisons in Wise County, Virginia. In the late 90s, I went to Red Onion State Prison on the Jack Rose Highway in Pound, Virginia.…

Virginia Worker Editorial Board member Sal Rojo weighs in on the debate over marxist organization that has been happening on the German Communaut Journal for the past year between two main tendencies which situate themselves as either “revolutionary social democracy” or council communism. This same dynamic finds itself in the US between DSA groups like…

Virginia Worker Editorial Board member SNR submits the following piece continuing their research into Alden Global Capital’s assets on the tail of the recent newspaper strike against Alden’s gutting of that industry as well as their accumulation of trailer parks and predatory policies upon tenants across the state and beyond. Last year, Homes of America…

The Virginia Worker Editorial Board has published the following statement on the labor misleaders who push the working class into submission to the two capitalist parties and their politicians as they work against the necessary formation of an independent working class party and politics. With the recent endorsement by the United Auto Workers President Shawn…

20 year veteran prison guard Jim Gibson speaks out on the culture of abuse and neglect within the Virginia Department of Corrections, with his most recent experience at Cold Springs Correctional Unit #10 in Greenville, Virginia. Gibson has been stonewalled by VADOC officials and the Governor’s office as he seeks accountability for these instances of…

On December 26th prisoners at Red Onion State Prison located in Pound, Virginia launched a hunger strike after being subjected to long term solitary confinement. Since then more than fourteen prisoners have maintained the strike demanding an end to the practice. The Virginia Department of Corrections (VADOC) has not answered our questions. The following interview…