The Virginia Worker

The Virginia Worker Editorial Board issues the following statement on the necessity of forming an independent working class party for the Virginia working class. One party supports a senile oligarch (including their “democratic socialists”) and another party vehemently supports a reactionary opportunist. The majority of American workers want nothing to do with these two fake…

Dearil Mercier offers the following response to the Draft Platform for the Virginia Working Class There is no doubt that the aims of the draft platform are rooted in the absolute need for the Virginian working class to recognize its own political power through careful organization around the international class struggle; this is objectively true…

Truetimber Arborists in Richmond has become the first ever residential tree care company to be unionized in the US. An IAM Local 10 union member submits the following report on their successful efforts on the union campaign and what caused it. On Thursday, May 30th in Richmond, VA, Truetimber Arborists became America’s first unionized residential…

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…