The Virginia Worker

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…

New River Tenant Union organizer SNR provides this report on the recent purchase of Massie’s Trailer Park in Christiansburg, Virginia by a Wall Street financier and how it’s effecting local working families Massie’s Mass Eviction and Alden Global Capital Belview Elementary is a small Title I school only a short walk from Massie’s Mobile Home…

Rick Amherst offers their assesment of CounterPower’s most recent book ‘Organizing for Autonomy’ Counterpower, a revolutionary communist organization, published their book Organizing for Autonomy in October 2020 when the embers of the George Floyd Uprising were still hot.  The uprising showed the courage of the masses, their frustration with all that is rotten in this…

The Virginia Worker Editorial Board is launching a new column entitled “Worker Reports.” We’ll use this space to give Virginia workers a platform to share what’s happening at our jobs. This first report is from an anonymous worker. If you’d like to be a worker correspondent email us at contact@thevirginiaworker.com The first job I had…

On Thursday, September 1st, 2022 Janette Corcelius, an at-large member of the board of directors of the Fairfax Education Association, testified in front of the school board during the first meeting of the 2022-2023 school year. The testimony concerned the urgent need for a collective bargaining resolution to be passed for Fairfax County Public Schools.…

Dr Sara Rzeszutek offers this memoriam on the life of Arlington-born Virginia communist Esther Cooper Jackson who passed on August 23rd after her 105th birthday Esther Cooper Jackson, a Black activist whose efforts had a global impact, died on Tuesday, August 23, 2022 at the age of 105. She was born on August 21, 1917…