Joelle Fishman

Joelle Fishman chairs the Connecticut Communist Party USA. She is an active member of many local economic rights and social justice organizations. As chair of the national CPUSA Political Action Commission, she plays an active role in the broad labor and people's alliance and continues to mobilize for health care, worker rights, and peace. Joelle Fishman preside el Partido Comunista de Connecticut USA. Es miembro activo de muchas organizaciones locales de derechos económicos y justicia social. Como presidenta de la Comisión Nacional de Acción Política del CPUSA, desempeña un papel activo en la amplia alianza laboral y popular y continúa movilizándose por la atención médica, los derechos de los trabajadores y la paz.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Joelle Fishman

Labor

From the picket line: IAM says no to corporate greed
May 21, 2025 By Joelle Fishman
The 3,000 machinists refused to give in on weakened pensions, health care coverage, and wages that didn't keep up with inflation.
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Labor

Solidarity grows as Machinists strike Pratt & Whitney
May 15, 2025 By Joelle Fishman
Workers hold firm as they maintain 24-hour, round the clock, picket line.
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Labor

Machinists, 3,000 strong, strike Pratt & Whitney in Connecticut
May 6, 2025 By Joelle Fishman
Hit picket lines because company refused to move on demands for security, pensions, and wages.
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Labor

People’s World Amistad Awards event pledges solidarity: We Won’t Go Back
December 20, 2024 By Jahmal Henderson And Joelle Fishman
As one awardee said, “We don’t win by ourselves; everything we win, we win together.”
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Labor

Harris-Walz ticket makes historic campaign launch at UAW union hall
August 12, 2024 By John Wojcik And Joelle Fishman
Massive anti-MAGA coalition mobilizes to defeat Donald Trump and elect Kamala Harris, the first African-American woman as president, and union member Tim Walz as vice president.
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Labor

Connecticut AFL-CIO gears up to build worker power
July 2, 2024 By Joelle Fishman And Jahmal Henderson
Elections seen as critical avenue to build working class power.
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Labor

California Amazon Workers get support at Connecticut warehouse
July 13, 2023 By Joelle Fishman And Waleed Ahmad
Teamsters from Boston, Rhode Island, New York, and New Jersey brave heat wave to back their brothers and sisters in California.
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Politics

Golden Rule Peace Boat welcomed in Connecticut
July 7, 2023 By Joelle Fishman
“The Golden Rule, with its simple message of peace, nuclear abolition, nonviolence, and environmental sustainability, reminds us that there is another way.”
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