Cincinnati Socialists

There is currently no “correct” answer of how to build militant unions in the 21st century, but we must continue to study the history of the labor movement and class struggle both in the US and abroad, and learn from its successes and failures.

If the various forces representing the working class’s interests engaged in the same cooperation that we see between Democrats and Republicans we would once again be able to effectively challenge the power of the capitalist system. However, if we continue to bicker and brush off each other, we will achieve nothing.

The Trump regime and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin are recklessly rolling back 31 of the EPA’s critical clean air and water regulations. This is a move that represents an egregious assault on public health and disproportionately endangers the health and well being of working class and vulnerable communities in the US.

“It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day’s toil of any human being.”

John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy

Climate change is not a novel idea. The hypothesis that rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere could be correlated to rising global temperatures was documented by scientists as far back as the 1930s. In 1965, Lyndon B Johnson was the first American president warned of climate change by scientists. As early as the late 1950s, the oil industry began to understand the impact of fossil fuels on climate; internal memos from Exxon in the late 70’s showed that the company was well aware that their products would have “dramatic environmental effects before the year 2050.”