The Covid 19 pandemic is showing us many underlying issues facing society right now as it has put stresses on jobs, healthcare, food supply chains, and housing.

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In the summer of 2017 the textile workers throughout the country of Haiti brought their entire industry to a standstill with a nationwide strike.

The Basic aspirations and desires of the workers throughout the world are the same. Workers are workers the world over. Every worker in every country shares the same class interests, and all produce value which becomes wealth for the factory/company owners (capitalists).

Despite the populist posturing of the millionaire and billionaire capitalist representatives in the government with all their appeals to “working families” and “the American people”, millions of unemployed are faced with potential evictions, desperately trying to choose between paying rent and placing food on the table.

A recent report put out by the United Nations examining the current climatic conditions and capitalism’s response to it is all over the media. It continues on to the painting of a dire picture for humanity.

Workers Struggle is sharing an update regarding the struggle we reported on in May at CODEVI Free Trade zone in Ounaminthe, Haiti where workers went on strike against tax hikes for social services that they never received.

We are taught in our schools that ideology is a perspective, a way to see the world, and that is true to an extent. However, that is just one aspect of ideology; on its own it is incomplete.

Just before Christmas, on December 17, 2018, a multibillion dollar corporation called Columbia Export Terminal filed a SLAPP lawsuit (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation) against 154 of the individual stevedore workers at its Portland, Oregon river dock.