As prices of necessities rise, workers need unions to fight back

Vol. 85/No. 42 - November 15, 2021
Food prices have soared. Government doesn’t count ‘volatile’ figures in official inflation rate.

Rising prices on food, energy, rent and other necessities are upending the lives of millions of working people. Claims by government economists that this is just temporary are wearing thin. The government aids the bosses by making inflation appear lower…


Defend the right to strike, picket!

Vol. 85/No. 42 - November 15, 2021

Statement by Alyson Kennedy, Socialist Workers Party Texas state campaign chair, Nov. 3. The court order banning picketing and all union activity within 300 yards of entrances to Warrior Met coal operations in Alabama is an assault on striking United…



450 Steelworkers strike at West Virginia plant

Vol. 85/No. 42 - November 15, 2021

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — Some 450 members of United Steelworkers Local 40 have been on strike against Special Metals Corp. here for over a month. The company, which is owned by Warren Buffet’s massive Berkshire Hathaway worldwide operation, is a producer…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 85/No. 42 - November 15, 2021

November 18, 1996 In a victory for women’s rights, on October 30, South Africa’s National Assembly passed a bill allowing women to choose abortion on demand, at state expense, up to the twelfth week of pregnancy, and later under certain…


Vaccines must be the property of humanity, not for monopoly profit

Vol. 85/No. 41 - November 8, 2021
Child gets vaccinated against COVID in Cuba, Aug. 3. All Cubans down to 2-year-olds will be vaccinated by year’s end. Revolutionary Cuba exports its vaccines to Vietnam, Venezuela, and more.

“The U.S. capitalist rulers and their government should be compelled to rapidly expand the production and distribution of enough vaccines to immunize billions of working people around the world against COVID-19,” Malcolm Jarrett, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of…


Black troops aided fight against Washington’s war in Philippines

Vol. 85/No. 41 - November 8, 2021

Blacks in America’s Wars — The Shift in Attitudes from the Revolutionary War to Vietnam by Robert W. Mullen is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for November. The excerpt below reveals a little known side of the 1898…


Emulate Cuba’s socialist revolution!

Vol. 85/No. 41 - November 8, 2021

Statement by Joanne Kuniansky, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New Jersey governor, Oct. 27. The Socialist Workers Party points to Cuba’s socialist revolution as an example for working people to study and emulate. It shows the road forward for workers…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 85/No. 41 - November 8, 2021

November 11, 1996 NEW DELHI, India — Some 1 million telecommunications and postal (P&T) workers here launched a nationwide strike over a wage dispute October 23. A week later, the walkout remained solid, having shut down most postal services, telephone…


Letters

Vol. 85/No. 41 - November 8, 2021

Dave Goldman Dave Goldman, a longtime friend of the communist movement and former member of the Socialist Workers Party, passed away at his home here Oct. 5. Goldman joined the Young Socialist Alliance and SWP in upstate New York in…