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  • Untitled post 230

    VIRGINIA BEACH, VIRGINIA: Virginia Beach city workers held a rally and press conference at City Hall on Tuesday, January 18, demanding a real voice for safety, dignity, living wages and an end to institutional racism on the job. The members of newly formed Virginia Beach City Workers Union, UE Local 111, were joined by supporters…

    Jane Doe

    January 27, 2022
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    There’s no need to argue with anti-maskers. You might have noticed that these people’s minds are impervious to logic. It’s not the “concerned parents” we need to appeal to – it’s the right to a workplace that is hazard-free that we must invoke. Untold thousands of workers in America have been tortured and murdered by…

    Jane Doe

    January 26, 2022
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  • Untitled post 213

    This speech was delivered on Monday, January 24th by Patrick Miller – President of the Henrico Education Association – on recent changes of COVID policy and the HEA’s demands for workplace safety We have been told time and time again that these times we are currently doing our best to survive are “unprecedented.” I disagree.…

    Jane Doe

    January 24, 2022
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  • Thoughts on the Marxist Center: Not Marxist Enough

    Thoughts on the Marxist Center: Not Marxist Enough

    For the Virginia Worker editorial board, a statement by board member Sal Rojo, founding member of New River Workers Power and active participant in the Marxist Center network, on its recent dissolution The recent announcement of the Marxist Center’s dissolution should come as no surprise to anyone involved. Since its formal inception back in 2018…

    Jane Doe

    January 23, 2022
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  • The Teacher Pay Gap in Virginia

    The Teacher Pay Gap in Virginia

    David Frost is a writer in The Writers’ Bloc and an organizer with Roanoke Peoples’ Power Network Virginia has the highest discrepancy between teacher pay and comparatively educated professionals out of any state in the country. Teachers will get a raise of five percent this year and five percent next year. However, this year’s five…

    Jane Doe

    January 21, 2022
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  • Untitled post 179

    Hugh Stephenson contributes this report on the state of the Sentara/RMH hospital in Harrisonburg, Virginia. He is a member of Socialist Resurgence The world is entering its third year of covid-19. Gone are the “Ra Ra Front Line Workers” headlines of the bourgeois press. Gone are gratitudes by Democratic and Republican Party politicians for front…

    Jane Doe

    January 17, 2022
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  • Untitled post 167

    Josh Armstead is a worker militant with UNITE HERE Local 23, organizing in the DMV Area I will admit I am not a Virginian, but there was a time when my family were Virginians, migrating every so often to escape the violence of the KKK and racism from deeper parts of the South, before settling…

    Jane Doe

    January 11, 2022
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  • Untitled post 159

    The Richmond Tenants Defense Council is an organization in the Richmond area which brings together working-class tenants and community members to build power.  The following interview is a conversation between two founding members of RTDC about the organization’s history and its future.  It was originally printed in the first issue of RTDC’s tenant newsletter. L:…

    Jane Doe

    January 10, 2022
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  • Untitled post 150

    FROM THE EDITORIAL BOARD OF THE VIRGINIA WORKER The Virginia Worker recently published an article by the Communist League of Richmond (CLR), and a response by Shama Bismas, the latter of which contained harsh criticisms of the Shenandoah Socialist Collective (SSC). In the interest of fairness, we are publishing a brief response by SSC.  SSC’s…

    Jane Doe

    January 7, 2022
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  • Untitled post 141

    The Hidden History of Richmond’s Labor Movement For 150 years, Richmond’s place in history has been as “the capital of the Confederacy.”  But this label hides a rich and complex history, a history that, when placed in conversation with the present, can provide insight, inspiration, and direction.  Join Peter Rachleff for a presentation of one…

    Jane Doe

    January 6, 2022
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