The Virginia Worker

Editors Note: The Richmond Branch of The Virginia Caucus of Rank-and-file Educators (VCORE) has recently published the following statement in response to the first collective bargaining agreement between the Richmond Education Association (REA) and Richmond Public Schools (RPS), which is the first in the state to do so. VCORE’s proposals have much utility across every…

Roanoke Peoples’ Power Network provides this coverage on the recent picketing by ATU Local 1493 union members and supporters as they fight for living wages and benefits Across the street from a brand new $17.3 million bus terminal stands a row of picketing bus workers of the ATU Local 1493. Above them is a banner…

The following statement is issued by the Virginia Worker Editorial Board on the recent congressional vote to force a contract on railroad workers, which broke their attempt to strike Let us be absolutely clear what happened on December 1st. In order to avert what could have been the most impactful strike in decades, the vast…

The Blue Ridge Industrial Workers of the World has issued the following statement condemning the recent retaliation by John Verde – CEO of Bookholders LLC – against Bookholders workers The Blue Ridge Industrial Workers of the World stand in solidarity with workers at Bookholders LLC in Blacksburg who are facing illegal retaliation from CEO John…

Tibor Szamuely – editor of the Counter Attack Journal – offers this response to the Wildcat Collective’s recent presentation entitled ‘Only a Social Revolution Can Save Humanity…And Only the Workers Can Make It’ Evading Old Problems with False Novelty  In a time when the centrality of the site of production of surplus value to any…

Virginia Worker Editorial Board Member Sal Rojo argues against supporting capitalist democracy as election Tuesday is underway for the 2022 midterm elections Another midterm election cycle between the two corporate parties, with each rallying and fearmongering their base around their pointed issues (abortions, parental rights, inflation, fascism, etc) and yet nothing fundamental is being done…

This worker report is provided by a United Steelworkers Local 1023L member Scotty Amin on the latest struggle for collective bargaining at the Yokohama Tire Plant in Salem, Virginia About three weeks ago our contract at Yokohama was up so we all showed up and walked across Indiana St. and we faced the building and…

The following is a transcript of the presentation given by members of the German-based Wildcat Collective at the Virginia Worker event held on October 30th. You can find more english texts from the Wildcat Collective here The first issue of Wildcat had the number 33, that was in 1984 – because the 32 issues before…

Christopher Sloce, socialist writer and co-host of the It Can Be Done podcast provides this review of Giorgio de Maria’s “The Twenty Days of Turin”. This is the fourth installment of The Culture Column, a bi-monthly series criticizing the culture we have so we can create the culture we want Dietrologia and Silence: Tension in…

Haki Kweli Shakur – National Spokesperson of the August Third Collective: New Afrikan Independence Movement – provides the following response about Black Nationalism in Virginia The Virginia Worker: Could you tell us more about the August Third Collective? When was it formed and what is the collective’s political program? HKS: The August Third Collective was…