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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 Cent...

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...

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 prim...

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 Na...

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...

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, featur...

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 provid...

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 inc...

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 spea...

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....

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 organize...

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 electio...

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: Warmonge...

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 at...

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 Ch...

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 Roc...

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, u...

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 pa...

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 auto...

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 Ama...

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 e...

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...

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 a...

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, negati...

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 Alternati...