USLAW

  • Interview: In Iran, Labor Activists Face Repression

    Interview by Bill Balderston, Oakland Education Association and U.S. Labor Against the War

    Iran has seen incredible tumult in the last few months, with massive street protests challenging the government, even as the U.S. and allied nations continue to threaten the Iranian government under President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

  • More Troops to War, Few Dollars for Jobs. What’s Wrong with This Picture?
    Jane Slaughter
    Jan 5 2010 - 12:00pm

    Thirty thousand more soldiers to Afghanistan, not enough dollars for jobs. President Obama announced both within three days, and labor activists are asking, “What’s wrong with this picture?”

  • "Why Are We in Afghanistan?" Debuts at US Labor Against the War Conference

    I just returned from the US Labor Against the War Assembly in Chicago, December 4-6. There were lots of high points, including the fact that oil workers from the U.S. got together with the heads of the oil unions in Iraq and Venezuela.

  • Labor Anti-War Group Refocuses on Afghanistan
    Jane Slaughter
    Oct 29 2009 - 1:04am

    U.S. Labor Against the War is preparing for its third national assembly in December as the original motivation for its founding—the Iraq war—is winding down to a more limited but permanent presence. No worries that the nearly seven-year-old USLAW coalition has outlived its usefulness, though: delegates to the Chicago meeting will debate the Afghanistan war.

  • Longshore Workers Shut Ports To Protest War

    Mike Parker

    Thousands of dockworkers closed all 29 West Coast ports in a historic May Day protest against the Iraq war. Previous political actions by the union had been under provisions in its contract, making this the first major political strike by labor in decades. . . .


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