We sat down recently with two Chinese graduate students, Liu and Joey, who are pursuing their doctorates at Virginia Tech. We took this opportunity to discuss the situation between Chinese and US workers, our collective struggles, and the importance of anti-imperialist and anti-colonial solidarity. NRWP: For folks who are unfamiliar with Chinese society and what’s […]
Since 2011, BAE Systems has been managing production over the Radford Army Ammunition Plant. While the British multinational is not responsible for building RAAP, it does play an integral role in the continued production of explosives and propellants at the RAAP site for almost a decade now. “The Arsenal,” as locals commonly refer to it, […]
Hui-Ling Chan works as a housing administrator and during the Covid-19 pandemic, has been designated an essential worker. For Chan and countless other Asian workers in the U.S. during the pandemic, there has been a heightened level of danger one is faced with, including the danger of being harassed or assaulted. “I get nervous about […]
I joined the labor movement 41 years ago. I had enrolled in the socialist movement two years before that. When I started out my links to the rest of the socialist movement were few; there were dwindling handfuls of people who identified publicly as “socialists.” The U.S. Mail and shortwave radio were my links to […]
The German Marxist, Clara Zetkin, stated in her report to the Communist International in 1923 regarding fascism’s rise in Italy, Fascism confronts the proletariat as an exceptionally dangerous and frightful enemy. Fascism is the strongest, most concentrated, and classic expression at this time of the world bourgeoisie’s general offensive. It is urgently necessary that it […]