Kentucky UFCW workers strike at Four Roses plants

Vol. 82/No. 35 - September 24, 2018

COX’S CREEK, Ky. — Following a 100 percent solid vote authorizing a strike, 53 members of United Food and Commercial Workers locals 10-D and 23-D walked out Sept. 7 at two Kentucky Four Roses bourbon facilities. Spirited picket lines went…


Demand US rulers sign peace treaty with NKorea

SWP: Washington’s troops, weapons out now!
Vol. 82/No. 35 - September 24, 2018
Sept. 9 Pyongyang parade on 70th anniversary of Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, focused on economic development, reunification of Korea, with no display of nuclear missiles.

The Socialist Workers Party offers “unconditional solidarity with the Korean people’s struggle for withdrawal of all US troops and weaponry from the peninsula’s soil, skies and waters,” Steve Clark said in a Sept. 7 message on behalf of the SWP…


Chicago hotel workers fight for health care, higher wages

Vol. 82/No. 35 - September 24, 2018
Hotel workers on strike in Chicago picket Hyatt Regency Sept. 7. “We need health insurance no matter what our hours were the previous months,” waitress Rafaela Sandoval told the Militant.

CHICAGO — Beginning at 5:30 a.m. Sept. 7, thousands of hotel workers, members of UNITE HERE Local 1, went on strike here to demand year-round health care and wage increases. Their union contract expired Sept. 1. Housekeepers, doormen, bellhops, cooks,…


Decay of US rulers ‘world order’ opens room to fight

Vol. 82/No. 35 - September 24, 2018

The U.S. capitalist rulers’ liberal imperialist world order, imposed following their emergence as the victor from the second imperialist world slaughter, is decaying and coming apart at an accelerated pace today. And some of them recognize this. The Donald Trump…


‘Workers need independence from capitalist state, parties’

Vol. 82/No. 35 - September 24, 2018

“I like to see a working person running for office,” Christina Etapa told Dan Fein, Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor of Illinois, when he knocked on her door in the Brighton Park neighborhood of Chicago Sept. 9. “All these…


Miami airport workers rally, press for union contract

Vol. 82/No. 35 - September 24, 2018

MIAMI — Some 60 airport workers and supporters rallied at Miami International Airport Aug. 30 to back Envoy Air customer service agents fighting to win their first union contract. Envoy is a subsidiary of American Airlines. Envoy workers do the…


Gangs, drugs and violence are built into capitalist rule

Vol. 82/No. 35 - September 24, 2018
Civil rights fighter Gloria Richardson pushes aside National Guardsman’s bayonet at July 21, 1964, Cambridge, Maryland, protest. Crime rate dropped 75 percent after start of Black rights protests there. Working-class solidarity counters dog-eat-dog morality of capitalism.

CHICAGO — As of Sept. 7, some 2,074 people have been shot here this year, and 381 of those died. The impact, especially in largely African-American neighborhoods on the South and West sides, has been devastating. And there have been…


‘First years of Communist Party heroic part of our continuity’

Vol. 82/No. 35 - September 24, 2018

Below is an excerpt from James P. Cannon’s The First Ten Years of American Communism, one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for September. Cannon was won to the example of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia and became a…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 82/No. 35 - September 24, 2018

September 27, 1993 COLUMBIANA, Alabama — Two striking steelworkers were killed September 7 as they staffed the picket line in front of the National-Standard plant here. A rally has been called for September 26 to show solidarity with the steelworkers.…


Mexico election registers crisis for capitalist rulers, parties

Vol. 82/No. 35 - September 24, 2018
Above, Sept. 26, 2015, protest in Guadalajara on one-year anniversary of “disappearance” by cops of 43 students from Ayotzinapa. Crime, drugs are at crisis level for workers. Left, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Mexico’s president-elect.

The government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who will be sworn in as the new president of Mexico Dec. 1, has already reached a trade pact with Washington, replacing the North American Free Trade Agreement. The deal was announced Aug.…