Workers’ Alliance is a political organization whose mission is to advance the shared interests of working people. We organize in workplaces, provide education and training, and run political campaigns. Our goal is to build the working class into an independent political force, particularly by developing the capacity to use the political strike as a strategic tool.
- The CFP Teaches Us About… | Workers’ Power and the CTCUM Maintenance Workers’ Strike of ’72
This text is the first in a new series, “The CFP Educates Us on…,” dedicated to the content of a session organized by the Centre de formation populaire [CFP]. The Centre de formation populaire is a joint initiative of the Montreal chapter of Workers’ Alliance and the Archives Révolutionnaires collective. The article recounts the events of the 1974 strike by maintenance workers at the Montreal transit authority. The conflict is a little-known example of a victorious struggle truly rooted in workers’ power—a source of inspiration for workers in our region!
- Who feeds the working class? Notes from the Beans Committee
We all need to eat if we are going to work, organise, and struggle together. The Montreal chapter’s Beans committee describes how they catered a May training and makes the case for workers’ organisations to invest collective resources and efforts into feeding comrades in struggle.
- Intimidation on Construction Sites: The Power to Stand Up for Yourself
The campaign against intimidation and harassment by the CCQ ultimately runs up against the limits of power: who actually has the power to command respect on the job site? Views from a former health and safety representative for the CSN.
- Genoa Dockworkers Are Blocking the Ports – and Leading the Way
By refusing to handle weapons shipments, Genoa dockworkers are laying the groundwork for working class resistance to the bosses and the imperialists.
- Yellow Helmets Defy the Blows of Imperialism
Hundreds of thousands of workers on strike, entire sectors brought to a standstill, and thousands of arrests: since January, a wave of strikes has been shaking India’s industrial sector. The movement deserves the full attention of union organizations here.