The Virginia Worker

Virginia Worker Editorial Board member Sal Rojo offers this reply to former ATU Organizing Director Chris Townsend on their thoughts regarding the Draft Platform for the Virginia Working Class Chris, Thanks so much for your response, it’s the most substantive I’ve seen thus far. You ask good questions, raise good points. As you said the…

Former ATU Organizing Director Chris Townsend issues this letter to the Virginia Worker in response to the Virginia Worker Editorial Board’s ‘Draft Platform for the Virginia Working Class‘ I do not disagree with probably 90% of the Platform. The platform asserts that it will be the points of unity for workers within and outside of…

The following worker report is provided by an anonymous AdvanSix worker on the recent strike in the Hopewell South plant and issues with the newest contract coming out of the strike This is an Advansix employee. People voted yes to the contract cause money was running out for them. Otherwise we would’ve stayed on the…

Richmond communist and artist T.Y. Adams offers this analysis of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and it’s role as a capitalist cultural institution Museums and Working Class Struggle: A Case Study of The VMFA The uprisings of 2020 in response to the police killings of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, as well as the…

On this International Workers Day, the Virginia Worker Editorial Board calls for this draft document to unify the left wing of the Virginia working class and begin the task of constructing a workers party and militant state-level labor movement The following points are meant to form the basis of unity among Virginia workers both inside…

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…