Imperialism and the US Proletariat
Over the last 100 years, US capitalism has fully matured and reached its highest stage – the dominance by financial institutions of all industries by means of shareholding. It is in this mature stage that US financial institutions, burdened with surplus capital which can not be reinvested domestically, have expanded across the globe.
Labor Peace and Capitulationism
Today, the labor movement is dominated by its right wing. The practice of ‘business unionism’ and ‘labor peace’ – the close collaboration between union leaders and capitalists – has led to the near collapse of the working class as a relevant political force in the US.
Hotel Workers Strike on Labor Day
The workers’ demands highlight that a greater share of wealth for the capitalists necessarily means a greater share of misery for those who create that wealth - the workers themselves. Workers are laboring longer and harder for far less money, increasing the amount that capitalists can steal.
Analysis of Strike Activity in the Second Half of 2023
In spite of this struggle, the communist movement has lagged to a shocking decree. Over the last century, US communists have transformed from a vanguard to a rearguard. We could decry opportunists, tailists, adventurists, and agents-provocateur. But this must be done at the same time as we conduct full scale campaigns of workplace investigation and organization. The organization and mobilization of the working class towards economic and eventually political strikes must be our central, most-jealously held task. Openly communist agitation and propaganda must be brought to the workers.