The Virginia Worker

With the recent overturning of Roe v. Wade by SCOTUS people are clamoring to fight back and ensure the right to abortion. But is this enough? Virginia Worker Editorial Board member Sal Rojo argues it’s not We’ve all heard the demand for a “right to an abortion.”  But the mere recognition of such a formal…

In April Movement Climbing Gym in Arlington, Virginia became the first ever climbing gym in the United States to become unionized. The following is an interview with union members Wendy and Slyvain on what led workers to unionize and the current situation in their campaign for collective bargaining The Virginia Worker: Could you provide some…

Christopher Sloce, socialist writer and co-host of the It Can Be Done podcast brings us Can Chainsaws Break Bricks. This is the second installment of The Culture Column, a new bi-monthly series criticizing the culture we have so we can create the culture we want. As Dante, the entrepreneur and secondary villain of Texas Chainsaw…

CHRISTIANSBURG, VA: Target workers at Store 1292 have petitioned for collective bargaining with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) after Target Corporation issued no response to a request for voluntary recognition on April 26th, 2022. Workers have also filed unfair labor practice charges in relation to store management‘s violations of the prior NLRB settlement stemming…

Keith Jay, community organizer and worker in southwestern Virginia, makes their case on the importance of organizing in Appalachia Appalachia appears, at first sight, an extremely obvious, trivial thing. Of course, Marx was referring to commodity fetishism when he conceived of those critical words in the first volume of his groundbreaking work, Capital. Nevertheless, after…

RICHMOND, VA – Spirits were high on Sunday, April 24th at the National in Downtown Richmond as supporters of Starbucks Workers United gathered to celebrate the union’s historic victories in five stores in the Richmond area. While Unity Fest’s musical acts and speakers like Bernie Sanders undoubtedly captivated the audience, Starbucks workers themselves drew the…

TN Long reports on the ongoing struggle by Columbia Gardens tenants against mass evictions triggered by a wave of gentrification stemming from Amazon’s new HQ2 site La ColectiVA, an immigrant rights group in Arlington, VA, serving the local Latin American community, hosted a vigil outside the Columbia Gardens apartments for the remaining two families at…

The Failure of ‘Don’t Look Up‘ Christopher Sloce, socialist writer and co-host of the It Can Be Done podcast brings us The Poverty of Popcorn Politics: The Failure of Don’t Look Up. This is the first installment of The Culture Column, a new bi-monthly series criticizing the culture we have so we can create the…

An Interview with Steven Salaita on his Recent Keynote Speech Former Virginia Tech professor Steven Salaita recently gave the Keynote Speech for the Virginia Tech Graduate and Professional Student Senate Symposium in the face of protest from zionists on campus and from afar.  Salaita first drew ire across Virginia Tech and the country when he…

Recently members of the organization Socialist Resurgence of Virginia have fused with other socialist groups to form a new organization – Workers Voice. The following is their official statement on this merger STATEMENT ON THE FORMATION OF WORKERS’ VOICE We live in a period characterized by escalating capitalist crises, imperialist conflict and war (i.e., the…