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  • No More Blood for Oil: UE Condemns Military Attacks on Venezuela

    No More Blood for Oil: UE Condemns Military Attacks on Venezuela

    Statement of the UE Officers – December 18, 2025 PITTSBURGH, PA – Our government’s escalating attacks on Venezuela are unconstitutional, immoral, and a massive waste of resources. The idea that Venezuela represents a military threat to the U.S. is patently absurd; the use of the U.S. military to carry out lethal attacks on fishing boats…

  • The Starbucks Strike and the Long Memory of the Kitchen

    The Starbucks Strike and the Long Memory of the Kitchen

    By: Carlos B The modern figure of the chef did not begin in a luxury dining room. It began in the barracks, in hunger, in political upheaval. Marie-Antoine Carême—the man later called the “King of Chefs and Chef of Kings”—was born in 1784 to an unemployed laborer on the outskirts of Paris. He was one…

  • OPINION: A Revolution Requires Revolutionaries, Not Candidates 

    OPINION: A Revolution Requires Revolutionaries, Not Candidates 

    By: Jackie Wilson The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not represent the official position of Working Mass. Electoralism is a strategy of electing politicians with the goal of creating political change. From a young age, many of us are indoctrinated to believe voting has great power;our childhoods are filled…

  • OPINION: Oppositional, Independent, and Socialist Candidates

    OPINION: Oppositional, Independent, and Socialist Candidates

    By: Dalton Galloway The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not represent the official position of Working Mass. Reflecting back on the 2025 election season, Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) has major accomplishments for which to be proud. In a year without federal elections, DSA nonetheless captured lightning in a…

  • OPINION: Electoral Strategy With Every Canvass An Organizing Moment

    OPINION: Electoral Strategy With Every Canvass An Organizing Moment

    By: Ric Blair The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not represent the official position of Working Mass. The 2025 election cycle has left Boston Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) stronger and better positioned for the future; As far as I see it, this is a fact. Members across the…

  • Blue Bottle Workers Shut Down Stores Across Boston in Company’s First Multi-Day Strike

    Blue Bottle Workers Shut Down Stores Across Boston in Company’s First Multi-Day Strike

    By: Frederick Reiber BOSTON, MA—Amid the bustle of Thanksgiving weekend–long lines, overloaded suitcases, and the familiar scramble for caffeine, Blue Bottle baristas staged their first strike. With a union-busting rap sheet almost as big as its balance sheet, workers faced down the chain’s corporate anti-union majority stakeholder during one of the company’s busiest weeks of…

  • Cross the Finish Line, Not the Picket Line – Newton Runs 5k to Support Striking Starbucks Baristas

    Cross the Finish Line, Not the Picket Line – Newton Runs 5k to Support Striking Starbucks Baristas

    By: Matt Wolfinger NEWTON, MA – Members of the Newton community braved the cold on Sunday, December 7 for a 5K fun run to support striking Starbucks baristas. The run, organized by Starbucks Workers United (SBWU) and Boston Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), started and ended on the picket line at the Centre Street Starbucks…

  • Allston Community Seethes and Rallies After ICE Abduction of Allston Car Wash Workers

    Allston Community Seethes and Rallies After ICE Abduction of Allston Car Wash Workers

    By: Kelly Regan & Travis Wayne ALLSTON, MA – On Monday, November 17, sixty people crossed Allston to assemble at Marsh Plaza on Commonwealth Avenue in response to a flurry of rapid-response organizing by Boston Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).  Community members rallied after ICE’s abduction of nine Allston Car Wash employees on November 4.…

  • “People see what is happening”: Italy’s General Strike for Palestine

    “People see what is happening”: Italy’s General Strike for Palestine

    By: Andrew Sebald This article was originally published in the Call. On Monday, September 22, 2025, grassroots unions and student organizations throughout Italy successfully organized a general strike in just a few days. The strike coincided with the passage of the Global Sumud Flotilla. The Flotilla constituted a group of boats with activists from all…

  • From Italian Ports to Gaza: An Interview with José Nivoi on the Global Sumud Flotilla

    From Italian Ports to Gaza: An Interview with José Nivoi on the Global Sumud Flotilla

    Interview By: Francesca Maria Translated from Italian to English. This interview was originally published in Springs of Revolution. José Nivoi is a spokesperson for CALP (Collettivo Autonomo Lavoratori Portuali – Autonomous Dockworkers Collective) in Genoa and a member of USB (Unione Sindacale di Base – Grassroot Trade Union). He’s aboard the Global Sumud Flotilla to…

  • The Stumo Brothers of Western Mass: On Mission Sailing with the Global Sumud Flotilla

    The Stumo Brothers of Western Mass: On Mission Sailing with the Global Sumud Flotilla

    By: Reid Jackson SHEFFIELD, MA – Adnaan and Torleif Stumo are two brothers from a town in the westernmost corner of Massachusetts. On October 8th, 2025, they were in the epicenter of Israel’s violation of international and maritime law. Today, they are back in America. In the heart of the nation that allowed for them…

  • WPI Resident Advisors On Strike Against Destructive Restructuring and Unionbusting

    WPI Resident Advisors On Strike Against Destructive Restructuring and Unionbusting

    By: Jake S Resident Advisors at Worcester Polytechnic Institute live in the student dormitories and offer services and resources to the students that live in their buildings to keep them safe and offer them help when they need it. RAs voted to form a union and affiliate with the United Auto Workers – the same…

  • Starbucks Workers United Supermajority Authorize ULP Strike for November 13

    Starbucks Workers United Supermajority Authorize ULP Strike for November 13

    By: Terence Cawley On Wednesday, November 5, Starbucks Workers United (SBWU) announced the results of their strike authorization vote initiated on October 24. A supermajority of 92% of SBWU voted to strike dozens of cities on one of the company’s most profitable days of the year, November 13, if Starbucks does not “finalize fair contracts…

  • Winning Online: 5 Digital Tactics That Powered Connolly and Zohran To Victory

    Winning Online: 5 Digital Tactics That Powered Connolly and Zohran To Victory

    Digital organizers from the Catherine Connolly campaign give insights into the tech tools that helped drive Connolly and Zohran to victory. By Dan Albright and Henry De Groot In the last two weeks, two monumental electoral victories have reenergized the international left: Catherine Connolly’s landslide victory in the Irish Presidential Election, and Zohran Mamdani’s heroic…

  • Health Care For the Homeless: Non-Clinical Staff Demand Fair Treatment in Bargaining with BHCHP

    Health Care For the Homeless: Non-Clinical Staff Demand Fair Treatment in Bargaining with BHCHP

    By: Chris Brady SOUTH END, MA – Eighty people gathered outside of Boston Health Care for the Homeless’s (BHCHP) headquarters on Tuesday, October 28th after BHCHP Workers United, a subsidiary of 1199SEIU, sounded the alarm on stalling bargaining efforts and threatened cuts. BHCHP is a community health center that provides medical care and specialized social…

  • Kickstarter Workers Rally in Boston to Launch Fourth Strike Week

    Kickstarter Workers Rally in Boston to Launch Fourth Strike Week

    By: Frederick Reiber Boston, MA – Kickstarter United (OPEIU Local 153) workers rallied on Thursday outside the 100 Oliver Street offices of Littler Mendelson, America’s largest union-busting firm, to launch their fourth week on strike. Employees from across the country, from Boston to New York City to Seattle, gathered to protest management’s choice to retain…

  • OPINION: UAW 2320 Legal Workers Elect National Slate of DSA Leaders and Allies to Lead the Union

    OPINION: UAW 2320 Legal Workers Elect National Slate of DSA Leaders and Allies to Lead the Union

    NOLSW Forward Leads Union to Declare Support for BDS and Opposition to U.S. Imperialism By: Siobhan M. The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not represent the official position of Working Mass. BOSTON, MA – The National Organization of Legal Services Workers (NOLSW, UAW 2320) emerged from our 2025 National…

  • MIT Refuses to Sign Trump Compact Following Pressure from Grad Workers’ Union and Other Groups

    MIT Refuses to Sign Trump Compact Following Pressure from Grad Workers’ Union and Other Groups

    By: Frederick Reiber CAMBRIDGE, MA – Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)’s students, workers, and union comrades gathered outside of the university’s Lobby 7 on Friday, October 10th to protest and celebrate MIT rejecting the Trump administration’s compact.  Earlier this month, the White House sent offers to nine universities in what the administration titled “Compact for…

  • Worcester Medical Residents Persevere Through Fifth Month of Negotiations with UMass 

    Worcester Medical Residents Persevere Through Fifth Month of Negotiations with UMass 

    By: James N WORCESTER, MA — About 700 medical residents, represented by CIR-SEIU, are in their fifth month of negotiations with UMass Memorial Healthcare. Residents are working physicians — often more than 80 hours a week and 24-hour-plus shifts in Worcester — that also specialize in specific fields, like internal medicine or pediatrics. Medical residents…

  • Somerville 4 Palestine Defeats Challenge, Divestment Moves to Ballot

    Somerville 4 Palestine Defeats Challenge, Divestment Moves to Ballot

    SOMERVILLE, MA – On October 6, 2025, the Somerville Elections Commission issued a final decision to overrule an objection to a divestment ballot initiative led by Somerville 4 Palestine, paving the way for city divestment to be decided by the electorate on the November ballot as Question 3. Opposition to the ballot measure was led…

  • Starbucks Workers in Davis Square Join SBWU; Company Closes Store One Week Later

    Starbucks Workers in Davis Square Join SBWU; Company Closes Store One Week Later

    By: Terence Cawley SOMERVILLE, MA – The last few weeks have been tumultuous for the workers at the Starbucks store in the Davis Square neighborhood. On Wednesday, September 17, workers voted to join Starbucks Workers United. That made Davis Square the 650th unionized Starbucks store. One week later, on Thursday the 25th, Starbucks announced the…