Letters

Vol. 82/No. 42 - November 12, 2018

70-hour workweek at UPS The National Master Agreement between the Teamsters union and UPS was voted down in October by 54 percent to 46 percent. This contract covers over 200,000 workers. Nonetheless Teamster officials declared that the contract had, in…






Join in denouncing Jew-hatred, a deadly threat to working class

Vol. 82/No. 42 - November 12, 2018
Overflow crowd at Pittsburgh vigil called by students at Taylor Allderdice High School Oct. 27.

This statement by Osborne Hart, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Senate from Pennsylvania, was released in Pittsburgh Oct. 28. The Socialist Workers Party condemns the anti-Semitic assault and killing of 11 Jews at the Tree of Life synagogue in…


Tens of thousands protest anti-Semitic assault, killings

Vol. 82/No. 42 - November 12, 2018

PITTSBURGH — Tens of thousands of people coast to coast — and around the world — attended vigils and other gatherings to protest the Oct. 27 murder of 11 Jews by ultra-rightist Robert Bowers at the Tree of Life synagogue…



US capitalist rulers seek bloc against Tehran amid Middle East rivalries

Vol. 82/No. 42 - November 12, 2018
Protest in Mashhad, Iran, last December against living conditions and mounting deaths from Tehran’s military intervention in Syria and Iraq. Protests spread to 90 other cities and towns.

Longstanding rifts between the capitalist rulers of Saudi Arabia and Turkey have been further exposed following the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, an Islamist opponent of the Saudi government, inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul. The U.S. rulers are determined to…


Hospital workers in Pittsburgh mount one-day strike

Vol. 82/No. 41 - November 5, 2018

PITTSBURGH — Carrying signs saying, “Hospital Workers Rising” and “UPMC: Respect Our Rights,” 100 hospital workers and supporters from the United Steelworkers and other unions carried the fight for a union to the heart of downtown Pittsburgh, the headquarters of…