Month: April 2020
‘Speak out against blaming Jews for COVID-19 spread’
Vol. 84/No. 16 - April 27, 2020MONTREAL — Jews in the Montreal area — and in other areas in Canada, the U.S. and beyond — are being attacked and scapegoated on anti-Semitic charges of spreading the COVID-19 epidemic. The Quebec government has put the province on…
How can rail workers unite and meet the bosses attacks?
Vol. 84/No. 16 - April 27, 2020Facing what they claimed were coming “labor shortages” due to potential employee coronavirus cases, U.S. rail bosses demanded and were quickly granted waivers on maintenance and safety rules by the pro-employer Federal Railroad Administration. These include cutting back track and…
Truckers discuss crisis, ‘There’s almost no work’
Vol. 84/No. 16 - April 27, 2020ELLENWOOD, Ga. — “You see all these trucks? They haven’t moved for weeks,” Jimmy Calloway, an independent owner-operator working on his rig at a truck stop here in early April, told Alyson Kennedy, Socialist Workers Party candidate for president, and…
Organize to defend jobs, wages, working conditions
Bosses dump costs of ‘recovery’ on workers’ backs
Vol. 84/No. 16 - April 27, 2020The International Monetary Fund forecast April 14 the unfolding global depression conditions facing working people today will be the worst since the Great Depression of the 1930s. The contraction already dwarfs that of the global financial crisis 12 years ago.…
Use the bosses’ ‘blood money’ to build SWP
Vol. 84/No. 16 - April 27, 2020“Enclosed is the ‘blood money’ bribe I got from Walmart for $489.03,” wrote Chris Hoeppner from Philadelphia. “Use the money to build the Socialist Workers Party. They cut hours and are increasing the workload to massively increase their profits and…
US rulers deploy the National Guard, target workers’ jobs, rights
Vol. 84/No. 15 - April 20, 2020As the economic and social crisis facing working people unfolding today deepens, the capitalist rulers are taking aim at our political and constitutional rights. One aspect of this is the deployment of over 18,500 Air and Army National Guard troops…
25, 50 and 75 Years Ago
Vol. 84/No. 15 - April 20, 2020April 24, 1995 PHILADELPHIA — The “no money” chorus led by the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transit Authority and Mayor Ed Rendell changed its tune here April 10, as management was forced to reach a settlement in a two-week strike by 5,200…
Fidel: ‘Voluntary work was one of best things Che left us’
Vol. 84/No. 15 - April 20, 2020Che Guevara: Economics and Politics in the Transition to Socialism by Carlos Tablada is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for April. It was originally published in Cuba in 1987 as part of the rectification process initiated by Fidel…
Strike against Asarco union busting continues
Vol. 84/No. 15 - April 20, 2020“We’re still standing strong and have no trouble keeping the picket lines going,” striking copper miner Lyle Murphy told the Militant by phone April 7. Murphy is president of United Steelworkers Local 5252 in Kearny, Arizona, and has worked at…