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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…

Recently, the National Political Committee – the executive body – of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) dissolved their Boycott, Divestment, & Sanctions Working Group by fiat, triggering a backlash from the rank and file membership for their undemocratic maneuver. As a result, a mass resignation is taking place. Here is a resignation letter from…

The Communist League of Richmond argues for revolutionary defeatism vs campism and other distortions of revolutionary marxism in regards to the Russian invasion of Ukraine “I am not a capitalist soldier; I am a proletarian revolutionist. I do not belong to the regular army of rite plutocracy, but to the irregular army of the people.…

This reportback was written by an anonymous member of the TAP Head Start Workers Committee A year ago, in January 2021, preschool workers at TAP Head Start in Roanoke, VA initiated our first workplace struggle. We were organizing for some basic, decent working conditions (the first two of which were a long time coming, and…

Rick Amherst, member of The Virginia Worker Editorial Board, offers the following review of Joel Wainwright and Geoff Mann’s ‘Climate Leviathan’ As the authors of Climate Leviathan concede, climate change is not a debate– it is a reality that will inevitably wreak at least some degree of havoc on the world, especially for the most…

The following is an account from Walmart workers in the New River Valley Since the beginning of the pandemic, Wal-Mart’s response to the crisis has been unimpressive.  Despite the adoption of a variety of masking and social distancing guidelines over the past two years, most of their efforts have been failures.  Resistance from the customers,…

Recently The Virginia Worker sat down with J and X, members of Bridges Starbucks Workers United in Roanoke, after they went public with their union campaign. They’re the first Starbucks workers in both Roanoke and southwestern Virginia to unionize, joining close to 100 other stores across the country, with numbers growing everyday. Starbucks Workers United…

The New River Valley branch of the Industrial Workers of the World recently passed an emergency resolution on the inter-imperialist escalations in Ukraine, calling on fellow workers across Virginia to join their efforts in stopping US ruling class imperialist maneuverings there. Click here to endorse the NRV IWW resolution below: IWW NRV GMB Resolution on…