Join an array of class struggle groups in the labor movement for a discussion on the dead end of Democratic Party politics and class collaboration, and to advance our common goals of transforming the workers’ movement and building fighting organizations, independent of the bosses, their political parties, and their government.
Date & Time:
Sunday, June 14th 8:45 am PDT / 10:45 am CDT / 11:45 am EDT (Three-hour event)
Locations:
Chicago: DoubleTree Hotel, Signature Ballroom (5460 North River Road Rosemont, IL 60018)
Portland: Social Justice Action Center (400 SE 12th Ave, Portland, OR 97214)
Online: Via Zoom (Receive Link after RSVP’ing for the event)
For more information, to get the Zoom link, and to RSVP: fightingworkersmovement.wordpress.com
For the full analysis and politics behind this event, read our article here.
Soon, sections of the labor movement from across North America and internationally will be gathering in Chicago for the 2026 Labor Notes conference. This conference serves as another moment in which Labor Notes and the labor left seek to channel and control the most militant sections of the working class. While using the language and some ideas of militancy, in practice, Labor Notes and the labor left have revealed themselves to be another mechanism for dampening the working-class fightback, channeling combative energy into collaborationist electoralism, coalition politics, and a vague fight for democracy that does not serve workers. The working class needs real answers and a genuinely combative labor movement to mount a fight against the attacks it faces, from those targeting immigrant workers to stagnating wages as the cost of living skyrockets. That is what this event is about.
This event emerged from discussions among militants active across different unions, workplace committees, immigrant defense efforts, and class-struggle organizations who found themselves running into the same limits inside the existing labor movement: struggles isolated workplace by workplace, strikes contained within legal channels, and the constant effort by the union apparatus and the labor left to subordinate class struggle to electoral and coalitional politics.
Out of this came For a Fighting Workers Movement, a coordination of class struggle formations initiated by the Class Struggle Action Network, which came together with Teamsters Mobilize, the Northern California Committee to Organize the Unorganized (IBEW), Transit Workers for a Fighting Union, the Committee for One Fighting Transit Union, and the Machinist Reform Action Committee. It has since been endorsed by Class Struggle Baristas (a class struggle committee within the Starbucks Workers Union), United for Class Wide Action (a class struggle committee within the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union), the Blue Ridge local of the IWW, and the DC local of the IWW.
This gathering is not a rival conference or a coalition of activists, and we are not building a new permanent labor federation by abstract proclamation. We are connecting the class struggle militants and organizations that already exist across industries and regions, laying the groundwork for a fighting workers movement clearly opposed to both the official labor lieutenants of capital and labor-left reformists.
All workers are welcome regardless of political background or union affiliation.
Join us in Chicago, Portland, or online.
