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Concerted Activity Collective aims to еngage other working people towаrds а dееpеr undеrstаnding of thе conditions challenging us today in our lives and our organizing with other workers. As the US remains the global bellwether for capitalism and imperialism, its ruling-class uses the polarized public discourse to further weaken our unity as a class and render us more susceptible to super-exploitation. We see the urgency to raise and unify our collective consciousness, develop strategies, and eventually win back control of our own lives.
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Who Really Won America’s Civil War? & Why It Matters to Workers Today
America’s Civil War was ultimately a war between free and unfree labor. It was a war to decide whether the foundational principle of the country would be the liberty to enslave others or the liberty to sell one’s labor freely. Today, workers are still fighting this war. Since 1865, the government has maintained a system of superexploitation by way of an underclass, which does not have the liberty to sell its labor...
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Time to Quit the Fantasy of Minimum-Wage Increase!
President Biden’s $1.9-trillion relief plan proposes a doubling of the US federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. Bipartisan, union, and liberal groups are quick to claim that the demand will at least reduce income inequality, raise many out of poverty, and help a lot of women workers. The “left-leaning” Economic Policy Institute estimated that a $15 minimum wage phased in by 2024 would directly lift the wages of 28.1 million workers. National Employment Law Project deemed minimum-wage increases as “needed now more than ever,” as these demands were enacted in 52 cities, counties, and states on New Year's Day, 2021.
But is raising the minimum wage the solution to workers’ hardships and economic inequality in this country?
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