STRIKE: Workers United Will Never Be Divided carries one of the most powerful truths of working-class struggle. Workers' greatest weapon is the strike, the collective refusal to work, and the strike only wins when workers stand together. The chant echoes "¡El pueblo unido jamás será vencido!", "the people united will never be defeated," the anthem written in Chile in 1973 during the Popular Unity government of Salvador Allende. Since then it has been shouted on picket lines and in the streets across the world. When workers withhold their labor together, the machines stop, the ports close, and the wealth that capital depends on stops flowing.

Every boss knows this, which is why the ruling class has always worked to divide workers. They have done it by race and nationality, by gender and citizenship, by skill and seniority, and by pitting the employed against the unemployed. Strikebreakers were recruited from rival groups of workers, and racism was cultivated to keep Black and white workers apart. The great victories of the labor movement came when those divisions were overcome. They came in the Bread and Roses strike, where immigrant women from dozens of nations struck as one, in the general strikes of 1934 in San Francisco, Minneapolis, and Toledo, and in the sit-down strikes that built industrial unions. In recent years they have come in the teachers' strikes of 2018, the autoworkers' Stand Up Strike, and the writers' and actors' strikes in Hollywood in 2023.

This print is a call to rebuild that unity and that militancy. Working people today face falling wages, rising rents, and the concentration of wealth in fewer hands than ever, but they have not lost the power to stop production and demand a fair share of what they create. Organized across every division the bosses use against them, workers united will never be divided, and they will never be defeated.

• 1 print shipped in a rigid mailer (made from recycled cardstock)
• printed on acid-free, premium matte-photo paper

• paper weight + thickness: 250/m² / 66lbs 

*frame not included*