A-Infos (en) US, BRRN: Help 25+ Anarchist Labor Organizers Get to Labor Notes (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Since Black Rose / Rosa Negra (BRRN) was founded 10 years ago, labor has 
remained a key focus of our sectoral organizing approach. For our 
members this has meant organizing the unorganized in campaigns to build 
entirely new unions, fighting within existing unions for greater 
rank-and-file control, and building the capacity of workers to lead 
their own struggles from the shopfloor. ---- In the last few years our 
members have participated in paradigm shifting wildcat strikes, 
successful organizing campaigns in 'right to work' states like Texas and 
North Carolina, massive strikes in higher education in California and 
New Jersey, and efforts to build and expand rank-and-file networks of 
healthcare workers. Most recently, our members have been experimenting 
with ways to bring the fight for Palestinian liberation into our 
workplace campaigns.

We are resolutely committed to building a pole for revolutionary 
anarchist politics and strategy in the labor movement. This is reflected 
in our recently published political program Turning the Tide, where we 
specifically commit to "developing and expanding a militant minority of 
anarchists committed to organizing at a rank-and-file level within 
strategic industries."

There is perhaps no better opportunity to make the connections for such 
a project than at the biennial Labor Notes conference. Labor Notes 
brings together thousands of union members for a weekend of critical 
discussion, training, and workshops. In 2022 the conference saw its 
highest attendance ever and this year it is again set to break records. 
Members of BRRN have been attending Labor Notes for some time and have 
organized, facilitated, and sat on a number of its panels over the 
years. During the 2018 edition of Labor Notes, we held an open 'Red & 
Black Party' adjacent to the conference, which featured anarchist 
workers involved in campaigns in the US, UK, and Poland, and allowed for 
other anarchist and fellow traveler militant unionists to meet and network.

This year BRRN is poised to bring over 25 members to the conference, 
including those of us who are workers in the building trades, transit, 
healthcare, K-12 education, higher education, public services, and 
laboratory science.

We are also extremely excited to announce that we are sponsoring the 
attendance of comrades from our sister organization Federación 
Anarquista Rosario (FAR) in Argentina, who are workers in the public 
sector. This comes at a crucial time for the Argentinian labor movement, 
as workers there have recently undertaken a general strike in response 
to the extreme neoliberal program of the newly elected president Javier 
Milei.

This year we plan to host an expanded redux of the 'Red & Black Party', 
in order to highlight the work many of our members are doing, to hear 
from our comrades in FAR and Spanish comrades from the General 
Confederation of Labor (CGT), and to provide a space to network with 
other militant unionists. Details on the party are forthcoming!

We are setting our sights high for the conference this year, but 
everything that we have planned does not come cheap. From plane tickets 
and visa costs, to food, lodging, and party supplies. While BRRN will be 
fronting a significant amount of money for this effort, we are also an 
independent political organization that relies only on membership dues 
and individual donations. But that's where you come in.

We're counting on your solidarity to help us continue our effort toward 
building a wing of the labor movement committed to self-management, 
class struggle, rank-and-file democracy, direct action, class 
independence, and internationalism.

Any donations received in excess of our goal will be used for the 
production of Spanish language copies of our political program Turning 
the Tide. https://blackrosefed.org/program-may-day-2023/

https://blackrosefed.org/labor-notes-fundraiser-2024/
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