S.M. Cifone, Author at The Communist

The International Longshoremen’s Association Strike, the Bankruptcy of the Ultra-Left, and the Need for a Policy of Industrial Concentration

A strike wave has hit the United States in recent years with mixed results. After decades in retreat, the labor movement in the United States has had rumblings of becoming a militant force once again, something we haven’t seen since the early days of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). [...]

Present Day Leadership Bankrupts the American Trade Union Movement

There are two problems with our unions today. On the one hand there is a systematic oppression of class-oriented voices in some unions which are tightly controlled by the Democrats. On the other hand, there is a growing frustration and reaction to the lack of democracy in our unions sometimes [...]