British Columbia workers strike casino bosses over pay, dignity

Vol. 82/No. 31 - August 20, 2018

PENTICTON, British Columbia — Members of the British Columbia Government and Service Employees’ Union struck four casinos in the Okanagan region June 29. Over 675 cashiers, dealers, kitchen staff and others are demanding higher wages. This worker correspondent and two…


Debate in UK deepens over Jew-hatred in Labour Party

Vol. 82/No. 31 - August 20, 2018

LONDON — “Jewish Trump fanatics” are responsible for a raft of made-up stories about Labour Party anti-Semitism, national executive member Peter Willsman charged at the committee’s meeting July 17. This explosion of Jew-hatred, recorded and publicly released, is part of…



Who were the combatants who began Cuba’s revolution?

Vol. 82/No. 31 - August 20, 2018
From left, Ñico López, Abel Santamaría and Fidel Castro in Havana, 1953. July 26 assault on government’s Moncada barracks was defeated, but revolutionary leadership emerged.

The article below by Marta Rojas Rodríguez, a veteran Cuban revolutionary, journalist and writer, was run in Granma July 25. In July 1953, Rojas, then a 25-year-old journalism student, covered the trial of Fidel Castro and other revolutionaries who had…


SWP: Build fighting alliance of workers and farmers!

Vol. 82/No. 31 - August 20, 2018

The following statement by Róger Calero, Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor of New York, was released Aug. 8. The crisis facing working farmers and ranchers and the pressing need for the unions to mobilize solidarity with their struggles was…


SWP takes campaigns to workers’ doorsteps

Socialist Workers Party says workers need to take power
Vol. 82/No. 31 - August 20, 2018
SWP candidate for US Senate Alyson Kennedy, right, discusses fight against police brutality, for amnesty for workers without papers with Victoria Dominguez in Waxahachie, Texas, July 30.

“I know all about Santos Rodriguez! I grew up in southwest Dallas,” Victoria Dominguez told Alyson Kennedy, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Senate from Texas, when she knocked on her door July 30. “You need to meet my mother.…


Workers have nothing to gain in US moves on China trade

Vol. 82/No. 31 - August 20, 2018

Claiming Beijing has been “cheating,” Washington imposed a series of tariffs on Chinese goods, seeking to use its superior clout to gain concessions to aid U.S. bosses in trade between the two countries. The Chinese rulers, so far, have responded…


‘Militant’ files appeal against ban by Illinois federal prison

Vol. 82/No. 31 - August 20, 2018

The fight continues against the move by prison authorities at the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ medium security facility in Greenville, Illinois, to ban the Militant. Authorities there have prevented a subscriber from getting the paper since the June 11 issue.…


New round of protests in Iran oppose impact of rulers’ wars

Vol. 82/No. 31 - August 20, 2018
Track workers near Nayshabour, Aug. 7 protest effects of Iranian rulers’ counterrevolutionary wars. Banner says, “We have not been paid wages for several months. We have no job security. We have no future. We have no honor. We have no bread. We have no social benefits.”

A new round of protests and strikes are unfolding across Iran, following the working-class-led protests that took place in late December and early January. They’re fueled above all by the impact on the working class of the wars conducted by…


US, NKorea denuclearization moves good for working class

Vol. 82/No. 31 - August 20, 2018

Washington and Pyongyang continue to take steps to implement the agreement for the “denuclearization” of the Korean Peninsula reached at the June 12 summit in Singapore between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. The agreement is…