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On Strike provides news & analysis from a working-class perspective, putting forward a strategy to take on the billionaires and their political servants, and win.We don't run any ads and we don't take corporate money. We rely on support from working people like you, so SUBSCRIBE NOW to On Strike and BECOME A MEMBER of Workers Strike Back: www.workersstrikeback.org/joinOn Strike is a production of Workers Strike Back, which was launched by Kshama Sawant and other working people in 2023 to spread the lessons of her decade as a socialist City Councilmember in Seattle, where she led movements to win historic victories like the first major $15 minimum wage, the Amazon Tax for affordable housing, and landmark renters' rights like the first-in-the-nation ban on winter evictions. Workers Strike Back is building a movement across the country to fight for things like a $25/hour minimum wage, free healthcare and quality affordable housing for all, an end U.S. military aid to the Israeli war machine, and an end the genocide and occupation in Gaza. We're organizing to begin laying the foundation for a new party for working people.Start a monthly donation and support On Strike by becoming a member of Workers Strike Back today!www.workersstrikeback.org/join

On Strike provides news & analysis from a working-class perspective, putting forward a strategy to take on the billionaires and their political servants, and win.We don't run any ads and we don't take corporate money. We rely on support from working people like you, so SUBSCRIBE NOW to On Strike and BECOME A MEMBER of Workers Strike Back: www.workersstrikeback.org/joinOn Strike is a production of Workers Strike Back, which was launched by Kshama Sawant and other working people in 2023 to spread the lessons of her decade as a socialist City Councilmember in Seattle, where she led movements to win historic victories like the first major $15 minimum wage, the Amazon Tax for affordable housing, and landmark renters' rights like the first-in-the-nation ban on winter evictions. Workers Strike Back is building a movement across the country to fight for things like a $25/hour minimum wage, free healthcare and quality affordable housing for all, an end U.S. military aid to the Israeli war machine, and an end the genocide and occupation in Gaza. We're organizing to begin laying the foundation for a new party for working people.Start a monthly donation and support On Strike by becoming a member of Workers Strike Back today!www.workersstrikeback.org/join

On Strike provides news & analysis from a working-class perspective, putting forward a strategy to take on the billionaires and their political servants, and win.We don't run any ads and we don't take corporate money. We rely on support from working people like you, so SUBSCRIBE NOW to On Strike and BECOME A MEMBER of Workers Strike Back: www.workersstrikeback.org/joinOn Strike is a production of Workers Strike Back, which was launched by Kshama Sawant and other working people in 2023 to spread the lessons of her decade as a socialist City Councilmember in Seattle, where she led movements to win historic victories like the first major $15 minimum wage, the Amazon Tax for affordable housing, and landmark renters' rights like the first-in-the-nation ban on winter evictions. Workers Strike Back is building a movement across the country to fight for things like a $25/hour minimum wage, free healthcare and quality affordable housing for all, an end U.S. military aid to the Israeli war machine, and an end the genocide and occupation in Gaza. We're organizing to begin laying the foundation for a new party for working people.Start a monthly donation and support On Strike by becoming a member of Workers Strike Back today!www.workersstrikeback.org/join

On Strike provides news & analysis from a working-class perspective, putting forward a strategy to take on the billionaires and their political servants, and win.We don't run any ads and we don't take corporate money. We rely on support from working people like you, so SUBSCRIBE NOW to On Strike and BECOME A MEMBER of Workers Strike Back: www.workersstrikeback.org/joinOn Strike is a production of Workers Strike Back, which was launched by Kshama Sawant and other working people in 2023 to spread the lessons of her decade as a socialist City Councilmember in Seattle, where she led movements to win historic victories like the first major $15 minimum wage, the Amazon Tax for affordable housing, and landmark renters' rights like the first-in-the-nation ban on winter evictions. Workers Strike Back is building a movement across the country to fight for things like a $25/hour minimum wage, free healthcare and quality affordable housing for all, an end U.S. military aid to the Israeli war machine, and an end the genocide and occupation in Gaza. We're organizing to begin laying the foundation for a new party for working people.Start a monthly donation and support On Strike by becoming a member of Workers Strike Back today!www.workersstrikeback.org/join

Democrats In Washington state, with Governor Bob Ferguson at the lead, are getting ready to slash a shocking $7 billion from the state budget. This would include brazen attacks on the 50,000+ workers unionized with the Washington Federation of State Employees (WFSE).Union and non-union workers need to be bringing the offices and businesses of Washington state to a grinding halt. Workers are the ones that run the state, not the billionaires or the Democratic and Republican Parties that represent them.Sign the petition in solidarity: www.workersstrikeback.org/fight-the-rich-campaigns/stand-with-wa-state-workersRead the op-ed by WFSE and Workers Strike Back members: www.thestranger.com/guest-editorial/2025/03/12/79964032/no-cuts-no-furloughs-tax-the-richThese vicious cuts are just one example of many attacks on workers by Democrat-led governments nationwide, now joined by the slew of onslaughts the Trump administration is unleashing against working people and the oppressed. Become a member of Workers Strike Back today to get organized and help build our campaign to fight the rich and their two parties: www.workersstrikeback.org/join

On Strike provides news & analysis from a working-class perspective, putting forward a strategy to take on the billionaires and their political servants, and win.We don't run any ads and we don't take corporate money. We rely on support from working people like you, so SUBSCRIBE NOW to On Strike and BECOME A MEMBER of Workers Strike Back: ⁠www.workersstrikeback.org/join⁠On Strike is a production of Workers Strike Back, which was launched by Kshama Sawant and other working people in 2023 to spread the lessons of her decade as a socialist City Councilmember in Seattle, where she led movements to win historic victories like the first major $15 minimum wage, the Amazon Tax for affordable housing, and landmark renters' rights like the first-in-the-nation ban on winter evictions. Workers Strike Back is building a movement across the country to fight for things like a $25/hour minimum wage, free healthcare and quality affordable housing for all, an end U.S. military aid to the Israeli war machine, and an end the genocide and occupation in Gaza. We're organizing to begin laying the foundation for a new party for working people.Start a monthly donation and support On Strike by becoming a member of Workers Strike Back today!⁠www.workersstrikeback.org/join⁠

On Strike provides news & analysis from a working-class perspective, putting forward a strategy to take on the billionaires and their political servants, and win.We don't run any ads and we don't take corporate money. We rely on support from working people like you, so SUBSCRIBE NOW to On Strike and BECOME A MEMBER of Workers Strike Back: www.workersstrikeback.org/joinOn Strike is a production of Workers Strike Back, which was launched by Kshama Sawant and other working people in 2023 to spread the lessons of her decade as a socialist City Councilmember in Seattle, where she led movements to win historic victories like the first major $15 minimum wage, the Amazon Tax for affordable housing, and landmark renters' rights like the first-in-the-nation ban on winter evictions. Workers Strike Back is building a movement across the country to fight for things like a $25/hour minimum wage, free healthcare and quality affordable housing for all, an end U.S. military aid to the Israeli war machine, and an end the genocide and occupation in Gaza. We're organizing to begin laying the foundation for a new party for working people.Start a monthly donation and support On Strike by becoming a member of Workers Strike Back today!www.workersstrikeback.org/join

On Strike provides news & analysis from a working-class perspective, putting forward a strategy to take on the billionaires and their political servants, and win. We don't run any ads and we don't take corporate money. We rely on support from working people like you, so SUBSCRIBE NOW to On Strike and BECOME A MEMBER of Workers Strike Back: ⁠⁠www.workersstrikeback.org/join⁠⁠ On Strike is a production of Workers Strike Back, which was launched by Kshama Sawant and other working people in 2023 to spread the lessons of her decade as a socialist City Councilmember in Seattle, where she led movements to win historic victories like the first major $15 minimum wage, the Amazon Tax for affordable housing, and landmark renters' rights like the first-in-the-nation ban on winter evictions. Workers Strike Back is building a movement across the country to fight for things like a $25/hour minimum wage, free healthcare and quality affordable housing for all, an end U.S. military aid to the Israeli war machine, and an end the genocide and occupation in Gaza. We're organizing to begin laying the foundation for a new party for working people. Start a monthly donation and support On Strike by becoming a member of Workers Strike Back today! ⁠⁠www.workersstrikeback.org/join⁠

On Strike provides news & analysis from a working-class perspective, putting forward a strategy to take on the billionaires and their political servants, and win. We don't run any ads and we don't take corporate money. We rely on support from working people like you, so SUBSCRIBE NOW to On Strike and BECOME A MEMBER of Workers Strike Back: ⁠www.workersstrikeback.org/join⁠ On Strike is a production of Workers Strike Back, which was launched by Kshama Sawant and other working people in 2023 to spread the lessons of her decade as a socialist City Councilmember in Seattle, where she led movements to win historic victories like the first major $15 minimum wage, the Amazon Tax for affordable housing, and landmark renters' rights like the first-in-the-nation ban on winter evictions. Workers Strike Back is building a movement across the country to fight for things like a $25/hour minimum wage, free healthcare and quality affordable housing for all, an end U.S. military aid to the Israeli war machine, and an end the genocide and occupation in Gaza. We're organizing to begin laying the foundation for a new party for working people. Start a monthly donation and support On Strike by becoming a member of Workers Strike Back today! ⁠www.workersstrikeback.org/join

On Strike provides news & analysis from a working-class perspective, putting forward a strategy to take on the billionaires and their political servants, and win. We don't run any ads and we don't take corporate money. We rely on support from working people like you, so SUBSCRIBE NOW to On Strike and BECOME A MEMBER of Workers Strike Back: www.workersstrikeback.org/join On Strike is a production of Workers Strike Back, which was launched by Kshama Sawant and other working people in 2023 to spread the lessons of her decade as a socialist City Councilmember in Seattle, where she led movements to win historic victories like the first major $15 minimum wage, the Amazon Tax for affordable housing, and landmark renters' rights like the first-in-the-nation ban on winter evictions. Workers Strike Back is building a movement across the country to fight for things like a $25/hour minimum wage, free healthcare and quality affordable housing for all, an end U.S. military aid to the Israeli war machine, and an end the genocide and occupation in Gaza. We're organizing to begin laying the foundation for a new party for working people. Start a monthly donation and support On Strike by becoming a member of Workers Strike Back today! www.workersstrikeback.org/join Thanks to Sonali Kolhatkar for on-the-ground video from Pasadena and Altadena.

On Strike provides news & analysis from a working-class perspective, putting forward a strategy to take on the billionaires and their political servants, and win. We don't run any ads and we don't take corporate money. We rely on support from working people like you, so SUBSCRIBE NOW to On Strike and BECOME A MEMBER of Workers Strike Back: www.workersstrikeback.org/join On Strike is a production of Workers Strike Back, which was launched by Kshama Sawant and other working people in 2023 to spread the lessons of her decade as a socialist City Councilmember in Seattle, where she led movements to win historic victories like the first major $15 minimum wage, the Amazon Tax for affordable housing, and landmark renters' rights like the first-in-the-nation ban on winter evictions. Workers Strike Back is building a movement across the country to fight for things like a $25/hour minimum wage, free healthcare and quality affordable housing for all, an end U.S. military aid to the Israeli war machine, and an end the genocide and occupation in Gaza. We're organizing to begin laying the foundation for a new party for working people. Start a monthly donation and support On Strike by becoming a member of Workers Strike Back today! www.workersstrikeback.org/join

On Strike provides news & analysis from a working-class perspective, putting forward a strategy to take on the billionaires and their political servants, and win. We don't run any ads and we don't take corporate money. We rely on support from working people like you, so SUBSCRIBE NOW to On Strike and BECOME A MEMBER of Workers Strike Back: www.workersstrikeback.org/join On Strike is a production of Workers Strike Back, which was launched by Kshama Sawant and other working people in 2023 to spread the lessons of her decade as a socialist City Councilmember in Seattle, where she led movements to win historic victories like the first major $15 minimum wage, the Amazon Tax for affordable housing, and landmark renters' rights like the first-in-the-nation ban on winter evictions. Workers Strike Back is building a movement across the country to fight for things like a $25/hour minimum wage, free healthcare and quality affordable housing for all, an end U.S. military aid to the Israeli war machine, and an end the genocide and occupation in Gaza. We're organizing to build Jill Stein's independent, pro-worker, antiwar Presidential campaign & to begin laying the foundation for a new party for working people. Start a monthly donation and support On Strike by becoming a member of Workers Strike Back today! www.workersstrikeback.org/join --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/onstrikeshow/support

On Strike provides news & analysis from a working-class perspective, putting forward a strategy to take on the billionaires and their political servants, and win. We don't run any ads and we don't take corporate money. We rely on support from working people like you, so SUBSCRIBE NOW to On Strike and BECOME A MEMBER of Workers Strike Back: www.workersstrikeback.org/join On Strike is a production of Workers Strike Back, which was launched by Kshama Sawant and other working people in 2023 to spread the lessons of her decade as a socialist City Councilmember in Seattle, where she led movements to win historic victories like the first major $15 minimum wage, the Amazon Tax for affordable housing, and landmark renters' rights like the first-in-the-nation ban on winter evictions. Workers Strike Back is building a movement across the country to fight for things like a $25/hour minimum wage, free healthcare and quality affordable housing for all, an end U.S. military aid to the Israeli war machine, and an end the genocide and occupation in Gaza. We're organizing to build Jill Stein's independent, pro-worker, antiwar Presidential campaign & to begin laying the foundation for a new party for working people. Start a monthly donation and support On Strike by becoming a member of Workers Strike Back today! www.workersstrikeback.org/join --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/onstrikeshow/support

On Strike provides news & analysis from a working-class perspective, putting forward a strategy to take on the billionaires and their political servants, and win. We don't run any ads and we don't take corporate money. We rely on support from working people like you, so SUBSCRIBE NOW to On Strike and BECOME A MEMBER of Workers Strike Back: www.workersstrikeback.org/join On Strike is a production of Workers Strike Back, which was launched by Kshama Sawant and other working people in 2023 to spread the lessons of her decade as a socialist City Councilmember in Seattle, where she led movements to win historic victories like the first major $15 minimum wage, the Amazon Tax for affordable housing, and landmark renters' rights like the first-in-the-nation ban on winter evictions. Workers Strike Back is building a movement across the country to fight for things like a $25/hour minimum wage, free healthcare and quality affordable housing for all, an end U.S. military aid to the Israeli war machine, and an end the genocide and occupation in Gaza. We're organizing to build Jill Stein's independent, pro-worker, antiwar Presidential campaign & to begin laying the foundation for a new party for working people. Start a monthly donation and support On Strike by becoming a member of Workers Strike Back today! www.workersstrikeback.org/join --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/onstrikeshow/support

On Strike provides news & analysis from a working-class perspective, putting forward a strategy to take on the billionaires and their political servants, and win. We don't run any ads and we don't take corporate money. We rely on support from working people like you, so SUBSCRIBE NOW to On Strike and BECOME A MEMBER of Workers Strike Back: www.workersstrikeback.org/join On Strike is a production of Workers Strike Back, which was launched by Kshama Sawant and other working people in 2023 to spread the lessons of her decade as a socialist City Councilmember in Seattle, where she led movements to win historic victories like the first major $15 minimum wage, the Amazon Tax for affordable housing, and landmark renters' rights like the first-in-the-nation ban on winter evictions. Workers Strike Back is building a movement across the country to fight for things like a $25/hour minimum wage, free healthcare and quality affordable housing for all, an end U.S. military aid to the Israeli war machine, and an end the genocide and occupation in Gaza. We're organizing to build Jill Stein's independent, pro-worker, antiwar Presidential campaign & to begin laying the foundation for a new party for working people. Start a monthly donation and support On Strike by becoming a member of Workers Strike Back today! www.workersstrikeback.org/join --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/onstrikeshow/support

On Strike provides news & analysis from a working-class perspective, putting forward a strategy to take on the billionaires and their political servants, and win. We don't run any ads and we don't take corporate money. We rely on support from working people like you, so SUBSCRIBE NOW to On Strike and BECOME A MEMBER of Workers Strike Back: www.workersstrikeback.org/join On Strike is a production of Workers Strike Back, which was launched by Kshama Sawant and other working people in 2023 to spread the lessons of her decade as a socialist City Councilmember in Seattle, where she led movements to win historic victories like the first major $15 minimum wage, the Amazon Tax for affordable housing, and landmark renters' rights like the first-in-the-nation ban on winter evictions. Workers Strike Back is building a movement across the country to fight for things like a $25/hour minimum wage, free healthcare and quality affordable housing for all, an end U.S. military aid to the Israeli war machine, and an end the genocide and occupation in Gaza. We're organizing to build Jill Stein's independent, pro-worker, antiwar Presidential campaign & to begin laying the foundation for a new party for working people. Start a monthly donation and support On Strike by becoming a member of Workers Strike Back today! And if you're already a monthly donor, help Workers Strike Back defend against Democrats' attacks on our historic minimum wage victory in Seattle and JOIN OUR DUES DRIVE by increasing your monthly donation to $15/month or more, to give Workers Strike Back the resources we need to fight back. www.workersstrikeback.org/join --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/onstrikeshow/support

On Strike provides news & analysis from a working-class perspective, putting forward a strategy to take on the billionaires and their political servants, and win. We don't run any ads and we don't take corporate money. We rely on support from working people like you, so SUBSCRIBE NOW to On Strike and BECOME A MEMBER of Workers Strike Back: www.workersstrikeback.org/join On Strike is a production of Workers Strike Back, which was launched by Kshama Sawant and other working people in 2023 to spread the lessons of her decade as a socialist City Councilmember in Seattle, where she led movements to win historic victories like the first major $15 minimum wage, the Amazon Tax for affordable housing, and landmark renters' rights like the first-in-the-nation ban on winter evictions. Workers Strike Back is building a movement across the country to fight for things like a $25/hour minimum wage, free healthcare and quality affordable housing for all, an end U.S. military aid to the Israeli war machine, and an end the genocide and occupation in Gaza. We're organizing to build Jill Stein's independent, pro-worker, antiwar Presidential campaign & to begin laying the foundation for a new party for working people. Start a monthly donation and support On Strike by becoming a member of Workers Strike Back today! And if you're already a monthly donor, help Workers Strike Back defend against Democrats' attacks on our historic minimum wage victory in Seattle and JOIN OUR DUES DRIVE by increasing your monthly donation to $15/month or more, to give Workers Strike Back the resources we need to fight back. www.workersstrikeback.org/join --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/onstrikeshow/support

Watch our interview with Jill Stein from May, on the ground at the campus antiwar protests:    • Jill Stein EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW - Why ...   On Strike provides news & analysis from a working-class perspective, putting forward a strategy to take on the billionaires and their political servants, and win. We don't run any ads and we don't take corporate money. We rely on support from working people like you, so SUBSCRIBE NOW to On Strike and BECOME A MEMBER of Workers Strike Back: www.workersstrikeback.org/join On Strike is a production of Workers Strike Back, which was launched by Kshama Sawant and other working people in 2023 to spread the lessons of her decade as a socialist City Councilmember in Seattle, where she led movements to win historic victories like the first major $15 minimum wage, the Amazon Tax for affordable housing, and landmark renters' rights like the first-in-the-nation ban on winter evictions. Workers Strike Back is building a movement across the country to fight for things like a $25/hour minimum wage, free healthcare and quality affordable housing for all, an end U.S. military aid to the Israeli war machine, and an end the genocide and occupation in Gaza. We're organizing to build Jill Stein's independent, pro-worker, antiwar Presidential campaign & to begin laying the foundation for a new party for working people. Start a monthly donation and support On Strike by becoming a member of Workers Strike Back today! And if you're already a monthly donor, help Workers Strike Back defend against Democrats' attacks on our historic minimum wage victory in Seattle and JOIN OUR DUES DRIVE by increasing your monthly donation to $15/month or more, to give Workers Strike Back the resources we need to fight back. www.workersstrikeback.org/join --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/onstrikeshow/support

On Strike provides news & analysis from a working-class perspective, putting forward a strategy to take on the billionaires and their political servants, and win. We don't run any ads and we don't take corporate money. We rely on support from working people like you, so SUBSCRIBE NOW to On Strike and BECOME A MEMBER of Workers Strike Back: www.workersstrikeback.org/join On Strike is a production of Workers Strike Back, which was launched by Kshama Sawant and other working people in 2023 to spread the lessons of her decade as a socialist City Councilmember in Seattle, where she led movements to win historic victories like the first major $15 minimum wage, the Amazon Tax for affordable housing, and landmark renters' rights like the first-in-the-nation ban on winter evictions. Workers Strike Back is building a movement across the country to fight for things like a $25/hour minimum wage, free healthcare and quality affordable housing for all, an end U.S. military aid to the Israeli war machine, and an end the genocide and occupation in Gaza. We're organizing to build Jill Stein's independent, pro-worker, antiwar Presidential campaign & to begin laying the foundation for a new party for working people. Start a monthly donation and support On Strike by becoming a member of Workers Strike Back today! And if you're already a monthly donor, help Workers Strike Back defend against Democrats' attacks on our historic minimum wage victory in Seattle and JOIN OUR DUES DRIVE by increasing your monthly donation to $15/month or more, to give Workers Strike Back the resources we need to fight back. www.workersstrikeback.org/join Union members, get in touch with Workers Strike Back to help pass a resolution in your union in solidarity with striking IAM 751 machinists! Sample resolution: www.workersstrikeback.org/news-analysis/boeing-strike-union-resolution --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/onstrikeshow/support

On Strike provides news & analysis from a working-class perspective, putting forward a strategy to take on the billionaires and their political servants, and win. We don't run any ads and we don't take corporate money. We rely on support from working people like you, so SUBSCRIBE NOW to On Strike and BECOME A MEMBER of Workers Strike Back: www.workersstrikeback.org/join On Strike is a production of Workers Strike Back, which was launched by Kshama Sawant and other working people in 2023 to spread the lessons of her decade as a socialist City Councilmember in Seattle, where she led movements to win historic victories like the first major $15 minimum wage, the Amazon Tax for affordable housing, and landmark renters' rights like the first-in-the-nation ban on winter evictions. Workers Strike Back is building a movement across the country to fight for things like a $25/hour minimum wage, free healthcare and quality affordable housing for all, an end U.S. military aid to the Israeli war machine, and an end the genocide and occupation in Gaza. We're organizing to build Jill Stein's independent, pro-worker, antiwar Presidential campaign & to begin laying the foundation for a new party for working people. Start a monthly donation and support On Strike by becoming a member of Workers Strike Back today! www.workersstrikeback.org/join --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/onstrikeshow/support

On Strike provides news & analysis from a working-class perspective, putting forward a strategy to take on the billionaires and their political servants, and win. We don't run any ads and we don't take corporate money. We rely on support from working people like you, so SUBSCRIBE NOW to On Strike and BECOME A MEMBER of Workers Strike Back: www.workersstrikeback.org/join On Strike is a production of Workers Strike Back, which was launched by Kshama Sawant and other working people in 2023 to spread the lessons of her decade as a socialist City Councilmember in Seattle, where she led movements to win historic victories like the first major $15 minimum wage, the Amazon Tax for affordable housing, and landmark renters' rights like the first-in-the-nation ban on winter evictions. Workers Strike Back is building a movement across the country to fight for things like a $25/hour minimum wage, free healthcare and quality affordable housing for all, an end U.S. military aid to the Israeli war machine, and an end the genocide and occupation in Gaza. We're organizing to build Jill Stein's independent, pro-worker, antiwar Presidential campaign & to begin laying the foundation for a new party for working people. Start a monthly donation and support On Strike by becoming a member of Workers Strike Back today! www.workersstrikeback.org/join --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/onstrikeshow/support

Abandon Harris founder Hassan Abdel Salam speaks at Workers Strike Back's rally in Chicago during the Democratic National Convention to demand an end to the genocidal war on Gaza. Hear from Abdel Salam about his experience being arrested and imprisoned by the Israeli state in retaliation for peaceful protests in Jerusalem, and about what it will take to stop the ongoing genocide in Gaza, which is being funded and supported by Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and the Democratic Party. Join Workers Strike Back THIS SUNDAY @ 12 pm PT / 2 pm CT / 3 pm ET for our National September Monthly Meeting to discuss next steps to build the biggest possible vote for Jill Stein and her independent, antiwar, pro-worker Presidential campaign, as a step towards building a new party for working people. Register now: https://www.workersstrikeback.org/eve... SUBSCRIBE NOW to On Strike and BECOME A MEMBER of Workers Strike Back today to help us build a movement that can win real victories, including an end to U.S. military aid to the Israeli war machine and an end to the genocidal war on Gaza: www.workersstrikeback.org/join --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/onstrikeshow/support

WATCH the speech by independent antiwar Presidential candidate Jill Stein at Workers Strike Back's rally to protest the Democratic National Convention and demand an end to the genocidal war on Gaza. Join us to get organized for the urgent next steps from now until election night to build the antiwar movement and the largest possible vote for Jill Stein, and AGAINST Harris, Trump, and the warmongers! REGISTER NOW to join Workers Strike Back's September/October monthly meeting — in person in Seattle, Kansas City, Chicago, and Boston; or our NATIONAL Zoom meeting on Monday, Sept 9 @ 6 pm PT / 9 ET: https://www.workersstrikeback.org/eve... No Harris, No Trump! We need a movement to end U.S. military funding for Israel and fight for things that workers need, and Stein's campaign is calling for, like free universal healthcare, quality affordable housing, and a $25/hour minimum wage. SUBSCRIBE NOW to On Strike and BECOME A MEMBER of Workers Strike Back TODAY to help us build a movement that can win real victories, including an end to the genocidal war on Gaza, and begin building a new party for working people. www.workersstrikeback.org/join --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/onstrikeshow/support

Hundreds of working people and antiwar protesters gathered in Chicago Tuesday night, with over 140,000 tuning in from around the country, for Workers Strike Back's rally in Chicago to protest the Democratic National Convention and the Biden-Harris administration's continued funding of the Israeli war machine and the genocidal war on Gaza. WATCH On Strike's Kshama Sawant and co-host Kailyn Nicholson speak at the rally and discuss what strategy is needed to end the war, stop U.S. warmongering in the Middle East, and win the things that working people need, like a $25/hour minimum wage, free healthcare, and quality affordable housing for all. JOIN Workers Strike Back for our September/October monthly meeting – in person in Seattle, Chicago, Boston, and Kansas City or online for our NATIONAL Zoom meeting – to get organized for the urgent next steps from now until election night to build the antiwar movement and the largest possible vote for Jill Stein. Register here: https://workersstrikeback.org/events/... SUBSCRIBE NOW to On Strike and BECOME A MEMBER of Workers Strike Back TODAY to help us build a movement that can win real victories, including an end to the genocidal war on Gaza, and begin building a new party for working people. www.workersstrikeback.org/join --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/onstrikeshow/support

Watch On Strike's Kshama Sawant at the LAUNCH of the Abandon Harris campaign, on the ground at the DNC protests in Chicago! Hear from leaders of the Abandon Harris campaign, including Hassan Abdel Salam, about what working people should do to fight back against the genocidal war on Gaza, backed to the hilt by Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party. And JOIN Abandon Harris founder Hassan Abdel Salam at our Rally at the DNC TODAY, Tuesday 8/20 @ 6 pm Eastern / 7 pm Eastern / 4 pm Pacific via livestream or in person! Hear from antiwar, pro-worker Presidential candidate Jill Stein, socialist & former Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant, Revolutionary Blackout Network cofounder Nick Cruse, and Workers Strike Back and get organized to end the genocidal war and build our movement for working people. Livestream here: https://www.youtube.com/live/76vsHiPR... Muslim leaders and activists around the country launched the Abandon Biden campaign in December in response to Joe Biden & the Democrats' support for the genocidal war on Gaza, and their funding of the Israeli war machine. Yesterday's launch of Abandon Harris marks an important new step for the campaign, and sends a clear message that working people and the antiwar movement should not have faith in Kamala Harris, who will be no less of a warmonger than Joe Biden. Just last week, the Biden-Harris administration approved $20 billion in new weapons to the Israeli military—the largest Israeli military aid package in history. As Jill Stein said at the press conference, U.S. military aid to Israel is costing each American household $12,000 per year on average—money that should be spent on free healthcare, quality affordable housing, and things that working people need. Watch our footage from on the ground at the Abandon Harris campaign launch, and JOIN US today, Tuesday @ 6 pm Central / 4 pm Pacific for our protest at the DNC! Livestream link here: https://www.youtube.com/live/76vsHiPR... And BECOME A MEMBER of Workers Strike Back today. Help us build a movement to end the war on Gaza and build a new party for working people. www.workersstrikeback.org/join --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/onstrikeshow/support

On Strike is ON THE GROUND at the Democratic National Convention protests in Chicago. Kshama Sawant speaks with Sabiha Kazi and Ibrahim Ibrahim, both physicians who traveled to Chicago to protest and fight back against Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party's warmongering in the Middle East. JOIN THE LIVESTREAM of Workers Strike Back's DISRUPT THE DNC Rally tomorrow, TUESDAY, August 20 @ 6 pm Central / 7 pm Eastern / 4 pm Pacific with Left independent antiwar candidate Jill Stein, socialist & former Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant, and Revolutionary Blackout Network co-founder Nick Cruse. Get notified of the Livestream at the link here: https://youtube.com/live/76vsHiPR5O8?.... And be sure to REGISTER & help us get organized at www.workersstrikeback.org/events/disrupt-the-dnc! Thousands of working people have gathered at the DNC, including many Palestinians from around the country, and are mobilizing to demand an end to the genocidal war on Gaza, an end to U.S. funding of the Israeli war machine, and to demand things that working people need, like free healthcare and affordable housing. “People know deep down that there's a rot in the healthcare system – I think it's a good metaphor for the entire system,” said Ibrahim, whose parents are from the West Bank. “But we're all kind of cogs in this big wheel. And I think what we need is a political movement that can break out of that. And that's one of the reasons why I'm here.” Be sure to tune into our rally livestream TUESDAY @ 6 pm Central / 7 pm Eastern / 4 pm Pacific: https://youtube.com/live/76vsHiPR5O8?.... Or if you're in Chicago, join us IN PERSON at Grace Church in Logan Square, 3325 W Wrightwood Ave. And BECOME A MEMBER of Workers Strike Back today, and help us build a movement to fight for an end to the genocidal war on Gaza, a $25/hour minimum wage, Medicare for All, and a new party for working people: www.workersstrikeback.org/join! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/onstrikeshow/support

The Middle East is as close to the outbreak of a major regional war as it has been in many years. Biden, Harris, and both the Democratic and Republican Parties are fueling the fire. On Strike speaks with Palestinian American Susan Abulhawa about the explosive situation in the Middle East, the ongoing genocidal war on Gaza, and what working people need to do to prevent a wider war. REGISTER to join Workers Strike Back on August 20 via LIVESTREAM – or in person in Chicago – for a rally at the Democratic National Convention to demand an end to US funding for the Israeli war machine and an end to the war on Gaza! We will be joined by left independent antiwar candidate Jill Stein, socialist & former Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant, and Revolutionary Blackout Network co-founder Nick Cruse. REGISTER NOW: www.workersstrikeback.org/events/disrupt-the-dnc We urgently need to build the antiwar movement, have the strongest possible protests at the DNC, and organize rank-and-file union members to bring resolutions calling for the labor movement to reject both Harris and Trump and endorse Jill Stein's pro-worker, anti-war campaign. Watch the latest episode of On Strike and REGISTER to join us for a livestream of our protest at the Democratic National Convention on August 20: www.workersstrikeback.org/events/disrupt-the-dnc And BECOME A MEMBER of Workers Strike Back today. Support the independent, working-class analysis that this broadcast brings, and help us build a movement to fight back: www.workersstrikeback.org/join --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/onstrikeshow/support

In what is shaping up to be THE most vacuous U.S. Presidential campaign in our lifetimes, Kamala Harris and now her Vice Presidential pick Tim Walz are running as living cardboard cutouts–with no clear positions on things like the $15 minimum wage, Medicare for All, free college education or ANY of the other demands that dominated the past two presidential cycles because of the Bernie Sanders primary campaigns. WATCH On Strike's Kshama Sawant respond to Harris' VP pick and TAKE DOWN the Tim Walz fantasy that has dominated the corporate press and many corners of social media. And REGISTER to join Kshama Sawant, left independent antiwar Presidential candidate Jill Stein, and Revolutionary Blackout Network co-founder Nick Cruse on AUGUST 20 – either in Chicago or via livestream – for Workers Strike Back's rally at the Democratic National Convention. Help us build the biggest possible protests to demand an end to the genocidal war on Gaza and an end to US military funding of the Israeli war machine! Register now for the rally or livestream: https://www.workersstrikeback.org/eve... The fawning over the Harris campaign reached an exponentially more painful level in response to Harris announcing Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate. U.S. imperialist interests, the billionaire class, and their political standard bearers like Nancy Pelosi, would not in a million years stand for any ticket with even a shadow of doubt about their unshakeable loyalty. Wall Street and AIPAC and the rest of the political establishment know that Harris, if elected, would one-hundred-percent drive forward the warmongering and anti-worker agenda of U.S. capitalism, and Walz would too. Watch Kshama break down Walz's concrete record as Governor of Minnesota since 2018, explain why he is no friend of working people, and discuss what is needed to build a new party that can fight for what workers need. Become a member of Workers Strike Back today. Support the independent, working-class analysis that this broadcast brings, and help us build a movement to fight back: www.workersstrikeback.org/join --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/onstrikeshow/support

All eyes here in the United States are on the American Presidential election, but fifty countries are hosting major elections in 2024. Britain, France, Taiwan and India are among the countries that have already had theirs. This week, On Strike is joined by James Kerr, a London-based English teacher, the Lewisham Branch secretary of the British National Education Union (NEU), a member of the NEU National Executive, and a socialist. Watch now to hear a socialist, working-class analysis from James Kerr and Kshama Sawant of the results of the British election, and what's next for working people. And REGISTER NOW to attend Workers Strike Back's rally at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, either in person or via livestream, on Tuesday, August 20: https://www.workersstrikeback.org/events/disrupt-the-dnc. BECOME A MEMBER of Workers Strike Back today to help support the production of On Strike and to help us build an independent, pro-worker, antiwar alternative to both billionaire-backed parties. Apply to become a member today at www.workersstrikeback.org/join. In the U.K. elections, we saw the Tories, the conservative party, lose humiliatingly but expectedly after 14 years in power, putting the British Labor Party at the helm of a country in crisis. The election was far less of a vote of confidence in the Labor Party and its leader, Keir Starmer than it was a vote against the Tories - a throw-the-bums-out anti-incumbency mood. In fact, this was the lowest turnout election in Britain in more than a century. We also saw a landslide election of Jeremy Corbyn as an independent Left candidate, after Starmer's wing of the Labor Party undemocratically blocked him from running as a Labor candidate. Corbyn's position against the Israeli state's genocidal war on Gaza undoubtedly played a role in his decisive win. What should workers conclude from the Tories' loss and Corbyn's victory? And what will actually be needed to build a new party, and to strengthen and connect our movements internationally? Watch now! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/onstrikeshow/support

WATCH - socialist & former Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant WARNS Seattle Democrats to stop their planned, shameful attack on the historic minimum wage victory won by her office and the 15 NOW movement ten years ago, at a press conference yesterday alongside workers, socialists, and union members. Working people everywhere have a stake in defending Seattle's minimum wage, which is the highest of any major city in the country at nearly $20/hour, thanks to the 15 NOW movement's historic victory in 2014 – a victory which set off a wave of similar laws being passed around the country, and even led to putting the $15 an hour demand center stage in the 2016 presidential election. An attack on Seattle's historic minimum wage will be a green light for big business to go on the offensive against workers in other cities, and double down on their attacks in Seattle. We need to fight back! JOIN OUR RALLY THIS SUNDAY, August 4th at 1PM outside Seattle city hall, to let the Democrats know we won't back down in the face of this shameful attack! Invite your coworkers and your union or organization if you're in one, and if you're not in Seattle you can tune in via livestream! RSVP here: https://www.workersstrikeback.org/eve... SIGN THE PETITION to demand that Seattle Democrats withdraw their legislation to roll back the city's minimum wage and oppose ALL attacks on the $15/hour minimum wage victory: https://www.workersstrikeback.org/han... And SEND AN EMAIL NOW to Seattle City Council demanding that they withdraw this shameful legislation and apologize to working people: https://mailchi.mp/workersstrikeback/... This attack by the all-Democrat Seattle City Council, led by District 3 Councilmember Joy Hollingsworth, would create a permanent lower-tier minimum wage for well over 200,000 workers who are set to receive a nearly $3/hour wage increase on January 1. In addition to creating a permanent two-tier wage system and denying raises to hundreds of thousands of workers, the Democrats' bill would actually threaten to lower wages by $1/hour for workers who receive commissions or piece-rate pay. This is a blatant attack on Seattle's working people – that's why On Strike and Workers Strike Back are calling on workers everywhere to help defend this victory. SEND AN EMAIL NOW to Seattle City Council demanding that they withdraw this shameful legislation and apologize to working people: https://mailchi.mp/workersstrikeback/... And BECOME A MEMBER of Workers Strike Back! Help us build a national movement that can defend our victories and fight for more, including a national $25/hour minimum wage. Join today: www.workersstrikeback.org/join --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/onstrikeshow/support

Watch On Strike's interview with Sabrina Salvati of “Sabby Sabs” podcast about what Kamala Harris' nomination means for working, Black, and young people and how our movement can fight back against both her and Trump. We discuss the independent, pro-worker, antiwar Presidential campaign of Jill Stein and Workers Strike Back's upcoming rally at the Democratic National Convention on August 20, featuring Jill Stein, socialist & former Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant, and Nick Cruse of the Revolutionary Blackout Network. REGISTER NOW to attend the rally in Chicago on August 20 in person or to join via Livestream: https://www.workersstrikeback.org/eve... BECOME A MEMBER of Workers Strike Back today to help support the production of On Strike and to help us build an independent, pro-worker, antiwar alternative that can win what working people need, including an end to the genocidal war on Gaza. Sign up to become a member today at www.workersstrikeback.org/join. After being forced to dump Biden amidst a political meltdown in the Democratic Party, the Democrat establishment has quickly moved to coronate the Vice President Kamala Harris as the party's presumptive Presidential nominee. Nearly every establishment figure from Nancy Pelosi to Jim Clyburn has rallied behind Harris, along with so-called progressives like Bernie and AOC, who have shown once again that they have no strategy for working people and are utterly broken to the party elite. Harris' long record as Vice President, as a U.S. Senator, and as a “tough on crime” prosecutor is deeply anti-worker, anti-poor, and anti-Black just like Biden's. And while Harris has had some outwardly progressive rhetoric, she has been lockstep with Biden in backing the genocidal war on Gaza and the continued U.S. funding for the Israeli state's war machine. She is no alternative for working people. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/onstrikeshow/support

The ongoing chaos of the US political system was heightened on Monday by the spectacle of Teamster President Sean O'Brien speaking at the Republican National Convention – the first Teamster President ever to do so – demonstrating the dramatic extent to which Biden and the Democrats have lost authority through their sellouts of working people. For decades, top labor leaders like O'Brien have provided cover for the Democrats' betrayals, while pumping hundreds of millions of union workers' money into Democratic Party campaigns. Now, O'Brien is sucking up to Trump and Republicans in a desperate attempt to escape the Democrats' sinking ship, to which other labor leaders have already tied themselves. O'Brien's speech at the RNC is a shameful maneuver that hides the stark reality for working people: neither party is on our side, and we need a new party of our own. Watch a working-class analysis of O'Brien's RNC speech from On Strike co-hosts Kshama Sawant and Emily McArthur, and a discussion about a fighting strategy for the labor movement that you won't find anywhere else. And REGISTER NOW for the Inaugural National Zoom Conference of Workers Strike Back, THIS SUNDAY, JULY 21 @ 2 pm PT / 5 pm ET, featuring left independent antiwar Presidential candidate Jill Stein, socialist and former Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant, and Revolutionary Backout Network co-founder Nick Cruse: https://www.workersstrikeback.org/eve... BECOME A MEMBER of Workers Strike Back today to help support the production of On Strike and build our independent working-class organization, and so you can VOTE SUNDAY on our proposal to endorse Jill Stein's independent Presidential campaign. Workers and young people urgently need to build an independent, pro-worker, antiwar alternative. Be sure to subscribe to On Strike And become a member today at www.workersstrikeback.org/join! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/onstrikeshow/support

Mental health has spiraled into a nationwide crisis, especially for young people. On Strike! speaks with local high school student activists Natalya, Charlotte, and Fatra, who organized alongside Kshama Sawant's socialist City Council office and a movement of hundreds of other students, socialists, and union members to demand $20 million in funding for student mental health services in 2023 by increasing the city's Amazon Tax – and they won. We also speak with educator and union member Adam Ziemkowski, who was a lead organizer in Kshama Sawant's socialist City Council office for a decade, and has played a crucial role in many victories, including the fight for mental health services in 2023, as well as winning the original Amazon Tax victory in 2020. If you're inspired by these students fighting back, help us spread these ideas. REGISTER NOW to join antiwar Presidential candidate Jill Stein and Kshama for Workers Strike Back's INAUGURAL NATIONAL ZOOM CONFERENCE on Sunday, July 21, at 2 pm Pacific / 5 pm Eastern. www.workersstrikeback.org/events/july-national-mtg Nearly 20 percent of high school students - one in five - report serious thoughts about suicide, and nearly one in ten report a suicide attempt. This has gone hand in hand with a frightening increase in gun violence affecting young people. Since 2017, gun deaths have become the leading cause of death among people under 25, with a major increase since the start of the COVID pandemic. In Seattle, where On Strike! is filmed, young people are facing both these crises – mental health and gun violence. Just last month, a 17-year-old Garfield High School student Amarr Murphy-Paine was tragically gunned down outside during the school lunch hour. Seattle's Democratic Party political establishment and their mouthpieces, like the Seattle Times, have been cynically trying to exploit this latest school shooting by insisting that cops need to be brought back into schools. So young people are continuing to fight back and get organized to demand action – mental health support and fully-funded public schools, NOT COPS. Seattle's corporate Democratic Mayor Bruce Harrell and all-Democrat City Council are refusing to hire social workers and mental health counselors for Seattle's public school students, even though the money is already there as a result of last year's victory of increasing the annual Amazon Tax. Watch to hear how the students are also connecting their struggles to the other urgent questions facing working people, like how to end the genocidal war on Gaza and build the strongest vote against both Biden and Trump in November and for Jill Stein. Be sure to subscribe to On Strike! Workers Strike Back relies on members and supporters across the country and around the world to produce On Strike! and to get the resources we need to get organized to win our demands. BECOME A MEMBER TODAY and get involved to help us build a fighting workers' movement. As a member, you will also be eligible to vote at the July 21 Zoom Conference on our proposal to endorse Jill Stein's independent, pro-worker, antiwar campaign for President. Become a member now at www.workersstrikeback.org/join! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/onstrikeshow/support

A crisis has engulfed the Democratic Party following the train wreck of the Biden-Trump presidential debate, and Biden's catastrophic performance. On Strike is joined by Briahna Joy Gray, host of the Bad Faith podcast and, until recently, co-host of The Hill Rising, from which she was fired in retaliation for speaking out consistently and courageously against the genocidal war on Gaza. We speak with Gray about the crisis for the Biden administration, the failures of AOC and the Squad–including the recent defeat of Jamaal Bowman in New York–and the path forward for working people, including the important effort to build Jill Stein's independent, antiwar Presidential campaign. Register now for the Inaugural Zoom Conference of Workers Strike Back and join Jill Stein, former Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant, and Revolutionary Blackout Network's Nick Cruse to discuss and vote on a strategy to build an alternative to the rotten Democratic and Republican Parties, which have blood on their hands both at home and abroad. Register now: www.workersstrikeback.org/events/july-national-mtg Powerful sections of the Democratic Party leadership remain determined to ram Biden down the throats of working people despite the absolute disaster of not only last week's debate, but Biden's candidacy as a whole. In the face of the threat of a second Trump Presidency, they are prepared to risk everything rather than replace their doomed candidate. The pro-Biden Democratic establishment is trying to pretend nothing much has happened. It's a weapon's grade level of political gaslighting. The calls for Biden to step aside have grown, now including two Democratic members of Congress–Lloyd Doggett of Texas and Raúl Grijalva of Arizona. But even as pressure on Biden approaches a boiling point, the so-called progressives in the Democratic Party, including AOC, have remained silent, choosing to preserve their rotten relationship with the political establishment over the interests of working people, who desperately need an alternative to the status quo of crisis and war. Meanwhile, the “alternatives” on offer from the Democratic establishment, like California Governor Gavin Newsom and Vice President Kamala Harris, have equally abysmal records to Biden and would also be beholden to the pro-war anti-working-class agenda of the Democratic Party. If you think the working class needs new and analysis like in this episode, become a member of Workers Strike Back today. By joining Workers Strike Back, you can support the production of On Strike and help us build a fighting workers' movement to fight for what workers need: a $25/hr minimum wage, good union jobs, free universal healthcare, quality affordable housing, and an end to the genocidal war on Gaza. Join Workers Strike Back today at workersstrikeback.org/join. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/onstrikeshow/support

The Democratic Party is in panic over Joe Biden's disastrous debate against Donald Trump. Even liberal commentators like Rachel Maddow and Van Jones have been unable to spin the debate as anything but a failure, while major publications, including the New York Times, have called on Biden to drop out of the race. But for working people, it's not just a question of Biden's catastrophic performance. The content of the debate was the latest reminder that the Democratic and Republican Parties do not in any way represent working people and have no solutions to the many crises facing us–from climate change to the ongoing cost-of-living crisis. Biden and the Democratic Party have backed the war on Gaza to the hilt and their failure to represent working people's interests have only emboldened Donald Trump and the right wing, who are escalating their attacks on immigrants, trans people, and other oppressed groups. Young and working people are in urgent need of an alternative to these two anti-worker, pro-capitalist warmongers on offer from the Democratic and Republican Parties. On Strike is joined by Jill Stein, the independent left, antiwar candidate running for President with the Green Party, to talk about the debate, what her Presidential campaign is fighting for, and how workers can build an alternative to the two capitalist parties. And JOIN US on JULY 21 @ 2 pm Pacific / 5 pm Eastern for the Inaugural Zoom Conference of Workers Strike Back – featuring Jill Stein, socialist & former Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant, and Nick Cruse of the Revolutionary Blackout Network – to discuss the strategy for the left and antiwar movement to end the genocidal war on Gaza and build a new party for working people. Register here: www.workersstrikeback.org/events/july-national-mtg --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/onstrikeshow/support

Support for the Israeli state's genocidal war on Gaza is crumbling. A majority of Americans now oppose the war, and just 36 percent support the U.S. providing military aid to Israel to fund the onslaught, which Joe Biden and both the Democratic and Republican parties have done to the tune of billions of dollars. Working and young people are horrified by the carnage in Gaza and are getting organized and taking action – including ongoing protests around the world and a historic strike by nearly 16,000 academic and graduate workers at the University of California. Protests are demanding an end to US military funding of the Israeli war machine and an immediate ceasefire. This growing antiwar movement has created an escalating crisis for Joe Biden, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the warmongers of the capitalist class. On Strike is joined by Joan Wright, a socialist and queer activist in Seattle, and a member of Workers Strike Back who has been organizing against the war. Joan is a rank-and-file member of OPEIU Local 153 – the union of workers at Kickstarter corporation. We speak with Joan about her successful efforts alongside other rank-and-file union members to win a ceasefire resolution in her union against the war, and about what more is needed to end the genocidal war on Gaza. If you'd like to put forward a ceasefire resolution within your union, reach out to Workers Strike Back for support! And check out our template resolution, which was drafted by Workers Strike Back members in WFSE 889 and passed this April: https://www.workersstrikeback.org/new... Both the WFSE 889 and the OPEIU 153 resolutions were inspired by the ceasefire resolution put forward by Kshama Sawant's socialist city council office, which called for an end to the Israeli occupation of Palestine and US funding of Israel, and which we won last November by organizing to bring over 500 working and young people to occupy Seattle City Hall. Workers Strike Back is calling for national protests and strikes on Monday, August 19, to coincide with protests at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago which will run from August 19 through 22. If you're going to be at the protests in Chicago, join us at our rally there on August 20, where we will be joined by independent left Presidential candidate Jill Stein. Stein has taken a consistent stand against the war, and was arrested alongside other protesters for refusing to back down against police repression. Get in touch with Workers Strike Back if you'd like to begin building for a rally in your area on August 19. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/onstrikeshow/support

As the antiwar protest movement continues to organize on campuses, even with many students now going home for the summer, Biden continues to tank in the polls due to his backing of the genocidal war on Gaza and the cost-of-living crisis that has been burying working people in the US. The question for young people, working-class people, and the antiwar movement is: what should we do in this election given the terrible options on offer from the two capitalist parties, Joe Biden and Donald Trump? And how do we use this election to build the strongest possible movement to end the war on Gaza? On Strike's Kshama Sawant and Emily McArthur speak with Nick Cruse, a citizen journalist, writer, activist, and the main co-founder of the Revolutionary Blackout Network (RBN), which has covered the war on Gaza since it began. We discuss the ongoing student protests, including the strikes by UAW academic workers at the University of California, the need to build for mass protests at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago this August, the independent anti-war presidential campaign of Jill Stein, and the urgent need for a new party for working people. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/onstrikeshow/support

The U.S. Presidential election is now less than 5 months away. Working people continue to struggle, as the world falls deeper into crisis and war. Israel's genocidal war on Gaza continues, funded off the backs of American workers, even as a majority of Americans oppose the slaughter. Meanwhile, the political establishment and media have presented working people with a rotten false choice: Warmonger-In-Chief Joe Biden or right-wing billionaire Donald Trump. We need to reject both Biden AND Trump, who offer nothing but more war and suffering. The billionaires have two parties, we need one of our own. And we need to build an independent movement that can end this war on Gaza and win real gains for working people. We need mass protests at the Democratic National Convention this August in Chicago to demand an end to the slaughter and of all U.S. funding of the Israeli war machine. Workers Strike Back is helping build that movement. We also need to demand that unions rescind their endorsement of Joe Biden, who is no friend to unions or workers. Instead working people should support Jill Stein, the strongest independent left, antiwar candidate. On Strike speaks with union educator Joe Sugrue about his and other workers' recent efforts to pass a resolution in the Washington Education Association to rescind the union's endorsement of Biden, and how we can fight to build a new party for working people. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/onstrikeshow/support

As Pride month begins, trans and queer people around the world are searching for ways to fight back against escalating attacks on their basic rights. In 2024 alone, 580 anti-trans bills have been proposed in state legislatures around the United States. This number is already set to surpass the appalling record set in 2023, when right-wing legislatures passed dozens of draconian anti-trans bills attacking everything from pronoun use in schools to gender-affirming care. How do we stop these anti-trans attacks, and win bold positive demands, like free universal healthcare which includes gender-affirming care? Young and queer people should look to the lessons from the history of the fight for queer rights, including Stonewall and ACT UP. We urgently need to get organized with other working people and build our own, independent organizations like Workers Strike Back to win the change we need. The fight for trans rights is also firmly bound up with the fight against other forms of oppression, including the growing movement to stop Israel's murderous campaign against the people of Gaza. We need to get organized to stop these attacks and end oppression in all its forms. On Strike is joined this week by trans socialist activists Sophie Scholl and Margot Stewart to discuss the militant roots of Pride, and the way forward for trans and queer liberation, including the fight for gender-affirming care and the role of the LGBTQ movement in the fight to end Israel's genocidal war on Gaza. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/onstrikeshow/support

On April 19, Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga won a historic victory, voting by 73 percent to join the United Auto Workers, or UAW. This was the first-ever union victory at a foreign auto plant in the South, and a huge start to UAW's national campaign to organize 150,000 non-union auto workers in the United States, at companies like Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz, Toyota, Tesla. But this success in Chattanooga was soon followed by a disappointing loss at a Mercedes-Benz near Tuscaloosa on May 19, where 56 percent of workers voted against unionizing. Why did the UAW campaign win at Volkswagen and lose at Mercedes? On Strike speaks with Logan Swan, a union Ironworker with Ironworkers Local 86 and a casual longshoreman represented by ILWU Local 19, and member of Workers Strike Back. Logan tells us about what went right and what went wrong, and how those lessons can be applied in order to restart the fight to unionize the Mercedes-Benz plant. In both the labor movement and in social movements, we need to soberly assess the lessons from both our victories and our setbacks. The lessons that Logan shares in this episode will be needed everywhere, especially in the South, which has long been a stronghold for big business and their reactionary, anti-union politics. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/onstrikeshow/support

We are thrilled to have as our guest antiwar journalist Chris Hedges. Many who are watching will already know Chris Hedges. Chris covered the first Persian Gulf War in the 1990s for The New York Times, where he refused to participate in the military pool system that restricted the movement of and reporting by journalists. In 2003, Chris gave a commencement speech at the graduation ceremony for Rockford College in which he criticized the then ongoing American imperialist invasion of Iraq. His microphone was shut off three minutes after he began speaking. Crhis had to end the commencement speech short because of the disruptions, which included an additional microphone cut, foghorns, and chants of "God Bless America." Clearly, we are in a completely different period - student antiwar protest movement. In fact, when Chris was speaking on the megaphone at the campus antiwar protest at Princeton University last month, when the campus police and administration prevented Chris from speaking, the students chanted “ let him speak, let him speak!” Chris has long spoken out against the two warmongering parties in the United States, the Democrats and Republicans, and called for a new party for working people. In the 2008 United States presidential campaign, Chris was a speechwriter for Green Party candidate Ralph Nader. Chris also supported Green Party candidate Jill Stein against the Democrat's and Wall Street's candidate, Hillary Clinton, in the 2016 election. We need to continue building the momentum of the campus anti-war movement with a nationally coordinated mass protest at the DNC in Chicago in August, and by sharing lessons from campus unions that have passed resolutions and strike authorizations in solidarity with the student protests and against police repression. We also need the rank and file of the labor movement to put forward resolutions to rescind their union's endorsements of Biden. Campus unions should provide a lead to the antiwar movement by calling for a one-day nation-wide strike and walk-out against the war. This is what it will take to end the war- shutting down the profits of the capitalists. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/onstrikeshow/support

We are joined by a special guest, Cora Bergantiños-Crespo. Cora is a geneticist, and the outgoing President of UAW 4100, the union of postdoctoral researchers at Columbia University and Mount Sinai Hospital. She is also a member of Socialist Alternative and Workers Strike Back. Cora talks to us about what escalation strategy the anti-war movement, and specifically the campus encampment protests, urgently need. She describes the role of the labor movement, and the need to harness the power of organized labor in order to end the war on Gaza and end all U.S. military funding to the Israeli state. A lot of political analysts are comparing this moment to 1968, when the movement against the Vietnam War took its protests to the DNC, and faced all kinds of police repression. That DNC was also in Chicago just as it will be in August this year. It is absolutely crucial that the anti-war movement builds for mass protests at the DNC. The campus protests are an enormous and historic development, but we also know from history that student protests alone will not be enough to end the genocidal war or the stranglehold of Wall Street billionaires on universities, much less on our society as a whole. They have the potential, however, to be a spark for even larger developments. There was a near revolution against capitalism in France in 1968 - major student protests acted as a spark that initiated a mass movement leading up to a general strike in France. A revolution would have been possible, which could have then spread regionally and globally, had it not been for the betrayal of the leaders of mass worker organizations who undermined the movement and failed to provide any leadership, in effect rescuing the capitalist class. If you live in or near Seattle, join us in person for a special rally and public meeting on May 16th at 6PM at Smith 120 on UW campus, where we will discuss these and other next steps for the antiwar movement. And on Sunday May 19th, Workers Strike Back and Socialist Alternative are hosting a national public meeting over Zoom to discuss how we can take this movement forward by bringing the momentum of the student protests to the DNC in Chicago this August, and having campus worker unions across the country take up the example of UAW 4811's strike authorization vote and WEA members' resolution to rescind the endorsement of Biden and bring a powerful challenge to US imperialism and end this genocidal war. On Strike is 100% funded by working people. BECOME A MEMBER of Workers Strike Back now to support our work: https://www.workersstrikeback.org/mem... Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OnStrikeShow On Strike is a production of Workers Strike Back. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/onstrikeshow/support

The antiwar movement has gained renewed momentum, with dozens of university campuses across the nation seeing mass encampments and protests against the Israeli state's genocidal war on Gaza.  Reports indicate that arrests of students had exceeded an estimated 1,800 as of May 2nd, with hundreds facing criminal charges as well as suspension and even expulsion. Some campuses have been subjected to particularly brutal police repression. One of the people arrested at the campus protests was JILL STEIN, who along with Cornel West is one of the two left antiwar Presidential candidates running this election year. This episode is a special conversation with Jill Stein about the antiwar movement and what it will take to end the war on Gaza. On Strike will also be bringing you a sit-down interview with Jill Stein, in which we will talk more about her campaign. Jill Stein's support of the antiwar movement is obviously a SHARP contrast to President Biden, the warmonger-in-Chief. Those of us who oppose the war on Gaza and who oppose Biden's attacks on working people should absolutely NOT vote for Biden in November. Supporting Democratic candidates as the supposed lesser evil with the idea that it will stop the rise of the right wing is both a failed, and completely counterproductive, strategy. Working people and the antiwar movement also absolutely cannot have illusions in Trump or RFK Junior. Working people and young people need to support and build for the largest possible vote for the antiwar campaigns of Jill Stein and Cornel West this November, as a step towards building a new antiwar party for the working class. On Strike is 100% funded by working people. BECOME A MEMBER of Workers Strike Back now to support our work: https://www.workersstrikeback.org/membership  Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OnStrikeShow  On Strike is a production of Workers Strike Back. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/onstrikeshow/support

In this exclusive interview with Shawn Fain, the President of the United Auto Workers (UAW), we spoke about the union's historic victory last week in Chattanooga at the Volkswagen plant, with a stunning 73 percent of workers voting yes.  The Chattanooga victory was driven by bottom-up, rank-and-file organizing, and it was inspired by the record gains won by last year's UAW strike of the Big 3 automakers, Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis. You'll also get to hear from UAW rank-and-file members on what they think about how things are going, with their own criticisms of last year's Stand Up Strike and proposals for what needs to be done. This isn't like other interviews on UAW. On Strike asked Fain questions that labor leaders almost never get asked, including about the war on Gaza, his position on Biden, this year's presidential election, and the need for a new party for working people. In the interview, Fain justifies the UAW endorsement of Biden on the basis of fearing a second Trump Presidency. But invoking lesser evilism as an argument to vote for Biden turns reality and history on its head. The Democratic Party, because of its decades of betraying working people, has been the best builder of Trumpism. On Strike is 100% funded by working people. BECOME A MEMBER of Workers Strike Back now to support our work: https://www.workersstrikeback.org/membership  Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OnStrikeShow  On Strike is a production of Workers Strike Back. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/onstrikeshow/support

The fight to unionize Amazon is taking place at multiple facilities in multiple states around the United States, as well as globally. Amazon is the second largest corporation in the U.S. and unionizing it is a crucial task of the working class in the U.S. and globally. The path to rebuilding a fighting labor movement must go through this trillion-dollar corporation. In the struggle to unionize Amazon, what is the role of the big, existing unions, and what is the role of independent unions? What will it take to unionize the behemoth? This week On Strike meets with independent union organizers in North Carolina who are fighting to unionize in the South, at the RDU1 facility. Their union is called CAUSE, Carolina Amazonians United for Solidarity and Empowerment. They talk with us about Amazon's union busting, discrimination against immigrant workers, and their demands for $30 an hour, 180 hours paid time off, longer breaks, and much more. They also explain why they don't support Biden or the Democrats, and why we need a new party for working people. On Strike is 100% funded by working people. BECOME A MEMBER of Workers Strike Back now to support our work: https://www.workersstrikeback.org/membership  Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OnStrikeShow  On Strike is a production of Workers Strike Back. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/onstrikeshow/support

Haiti has become engulfed in an unprecedented crisis of deadly gang violence over the last several weeks. Political gangs vying for control of the capital city, Port-au-Prince, have effectively laid siege to the city, storming prisons, seizing control of the port, torching shops and buildings, destroying hospitals, and taking over the main international airport. The United Nations estimates that eighty percent of Port-au-Prince is now under gang control, pointing towards a veritable collapse of society.  Over 300,000 Haitians have been forced to flee their homes, and thousands have become victims of indiscriminate violence at the hands of the armed gangs. Over 1,500 people have been killed since just the start of this year, and morgues have been overflowing with bodies. Hospitals are flooded with countless patients with gunshot wounds, many of them civilians hit in gang crossfire. Harrowing reports of kidnappings, gang rapes, and homes being burned add to the picture of a nation in the throes of a deep-rooted crisis. To help us understand the roots and historical context of this crisis, why it should matter to American working and young people, how it relates to the other crises internationally under capitalism, and what strategy is needed to end the crisis in Haiti, we have two special guests today. Toya Chester is a rank-and-file member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. Eric Jenkins is an educator in the Philadelphia Public School district, and is a member of the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers. Both Eric and Toya are among the leaders of the Black Caucus of Socialist Alternative. On Strike is 100% funded by working people. BECOME A MEMBER of Workers Strike Back now to support our work: https://www.workersstrikeback.org/membership  Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OnStrikeShow  On Strike is a production of Workers Strike Back. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/onstrikeshow/support

Today we'll be doing the second part in our series on the US-China Cold War. In January, we spoke with Tom Crean of US Socialist Alternative about the Cold War. Today we'll be talking with Chong, a socialist organizer from China and an editor of the dissident website Chinaworker.info. Today, the world is increasingly shaped by two imperialist superpowers - the US and China -  which are locked in an increasingly intense competition for domination of resources and influence in a global economy characterized by falling profits and rising instability. Inter-imperialist conflict is not a temporary historical aberration, but rather the norm of capitalism — a norm that is reasserting itself as the era of neoliberal globalization with the US as an uncontested super power has come to an end. Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 marked the start of the  first “hot” war of the new Cold War era, with the US and Western Imperialist powers on one side using Ukraine as a proxy for their interests and China backing Russia on the other. Neither imperialist camp waging this war has the interests of the working class in Ukraine, Russia, or anywhere, at heart. This conflict was the first of more to come, with further devastating proxy wars likely to spring up across the globe. A war between the US and China over Taiwan, which US military brass have openly acknowledged they're preparing for, would threaten even greater horrors. How are these conflicts likely to develop? What have been the impacts of recent mass protests in China against Xi's regime? How can we build a united international movement to end imperialist war and exploitation once and for all? On Strike is 100% funded by working people. BECOME A MEMBER of Workers Strike Back now to support our work: https://www.workersstrikeback.org/membership  Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OnStrikeShow  On Strike is a production of Workers Strike Back. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/onstrikeshow/support

Hundreds of thousands of people are voting “uncommitted” in the Democratic Primary, as a rejection of the terrible options being thrust on them in the form of a Biden and Trump rematch this year.  Opposition to the genocidal war on Gaza has been the single most important factor in driving the “uncommitted” vote. But it's not only the war driving the growing opposition to Biden. In the absence of any other avenue for working and young people to push back against Biden and Trump, the Uncommitted and Abandon Biden movements are also helping to channel the frustrations of young people over many things, such as the cost of living, piling household debt, and chronically underfunded social services.  So the big question is: what can working people, and those opposed to the war on Gaza, do to get organized in the lead-up to November? How do we defeat Trumpism and the right wing? How do we use the anger at Biden reflected in “uncommitted” and Abandon Biden to build the movement for a new party for working people? What is the strategy for the anti-war protests in order to successfully force an end to the horrific war on the Palestinian people? What role does the labor movement have to play in all of this? How can working-class power, particularly the power of strike action be used to stand up against the war on Gaza and the ongoing attacks on working people's standards of living in the US? On Strike is 100% funded by working people. BECOME A MEMBER of Workers Strike Back now to support our work: https://www.workersstrikeback.org/membership  Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OnStrikeShow  On Strike is a production of Workers Strike Back, hosted by Kshama Sawant and Bia Lacombe. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/onstrikeshow/support

There is a profound crisis in public education in the United States. For decades, politicians at the state and federal levels have starved public schools of necessary funding. School buildings across the US are falling apart and in need of major repairs. Educators are buying school supplies with their own money. Class sizes have increased dramatically in school districts across the country, negatively affecting student outcomes and increasing educator workload and exhaustion to unsustainable levels. On average, teachers made 26.4% less than other similarly educated professionals in 2022—the lowest level since 1960. Underfunding schools, and attacks on educators' and other public school unions, has been a bipartisan policy by both the Republican and the Democratic Parties. These politicians cite budget shortages and lack of revenue, cutting teacher pay and closing schools entirely while cutting taxes on the rich. Taxing wealthy corporations and billionaires, meanwhile, would raise the money necessary to fix many of these urgent issues.  The crisis in education is only deepening, but inspiring struggles of unionized educators across the country have shown that there is a way forward if we have the right strategies and tactics to win. It's important that we draw out the lessons of these struggles, because they apply not just to educators, but workers everywhere looking to fight back. On Strike is 100% funded by working people. BECOME A MEMBER of Workers Strike Back now to support our work: https://www.workersstrikeback.org/membership  Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OnStrikeShow  On Strike is a production of Workers Strike Back, hosted by Kshama Sawant and Bia Lacombe. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/onstrikeshow/support

Last month, over 1.5 million people protested in Germany, bringing entire cities to a standstill, in what became the largest wave of protests in the history of the country. Cities like Berlin, Hamburg, and Munich each saw hundreds of thousands of protesters out on the streets. The protests were the result of widespread outrage at horrific anti-immigrant deportation plans by the so-called Alternative for Germany, or AfD for short, a right-wing populist party, and against the overall shift to the right by the establishment parties in the country. The protests have since continued into their fourth week, with hundreds of thousands of people still marching in the streets. To help us understand more about what's happening in Germany, the way forward for the protest movement, and why this matters for working and young people in the United States and globally, we are fortunate to have with us today Claus Ludwig, a member of Socialist Alternative in Germany, a sister organization of Socialist Alternative here in the US. Claus is a union activist in the public sector, and the editor of sozialismus.info, the online and printed newspaper of Socialist Alternative in Germany. Claus was active in the antifascist movement in the early 1990s, and at that time, co-founded the Youth Against Racism movement in Europe. He is the author of a book titled Firebugs, about the rise of the AfD, published in 2017. He was also a council member in the city of Cologne for Die Linke, or the left party in Germany from 2004 to 2014. On Strike is 100% funded by working people. BECOME A MEMBER of Workers Strike Back now to support our work: https://www.workersstrikeback.org/membership  Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OnStrikeShow  On Strike is a production of Workers Strike Back, hosted by Kshama Sawant and Bia Lacombe. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/onstrikeshow/support

Two weeks ago, California was hit by devastating, unprecedented storms. The National Weather Service in San Francisco issued its first ever hurricane force wind warning since records have been kept, and then Los Angeles received more than 60% of an entire year's rainfall in one day. The question of how to avert the impending climate catastrophe, and what it will take to dramatically change course in order to salvage a livable planet, is absolutely central to building the overall working-class fightback internationally against capitalism. What's clear is that the capitalist elite have completely failed to even begin to address the crisis, and in fact, have been doubling down with trillions more dollars in corporate handouts for fossil fuels. The planet just had its hottest year on record in 2023 and this past January was the warmest ever recorded. The crucial 1.5-degree-Celsius benchmark that scientists have warned about for decades, the benchmark that the Paris Climate Agreement was meant to prevent, has been breached.  In the face of climate disaster, how do working and young people build a fightback? What will it take to win victories on the scale of what is so urgently needed? We're joined by Jed, Los Angeles resident and Workers Strike Back activist, to discuss these questions! On Strike is 100% funded by working people. BECOME A MEMBER of Workers Strike Back now to support our work: https://www.workersstrikeback.org/membership  Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OnStrikeShow  On Strike is a production of Workers Strike Back, hosted by Kshama Sawant and Bia Lacombe. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/onstrikeshow/support