Year: 2021

SWP candidate for mayor on Miami ballot

Anthony Dutrow, SWP candidate for mayor of Miami, submits affidavits and documents Sept. 18 qualifying for a place on the ballot in this November’s election.

Construction workers protest gov’t attacks in Australia

SYDNEY — Construction workers in Melbourne, Australia, have long considered the tea rooms set up for eating and smoking on breaks a key part of their working conditions at building sites. Hundreds protested when the bosses shut them down on…

Mexico’s fight against colonial rule launched in 1810

El Grito de Dolores is celebrated Sept. 16 as a national holiday in Mexico and by Mexicans around the world. It marks the opening of the independence struggle against Spanish colonial rule in 1810. On that day Catholic priest Miguel…

Biden orders mass deportations of Haitians in Texas

More than 14,000 migrants, the vast majority of them Haitians seeking asylum and jobs in the U.S., have been camped out in squalid conditions in Del Rio, Texas. Most are fenced in under an international bridge over the Rio Grande…

Barbaric conditions in Rikers built into capitalist ‘justice’ system

Below is a statement issued Sept. 20 by Róger Calero, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of New York. The brutal conditions at Rikers Island are an indictment of the workings of the capitalist system and how the U.S. rulers…

Mexican, Cuban presidents: ‘End US economic war against Cuba!’

In a blow to Washington’s stepped-up attempts to isolate Cuba, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador invited Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel to serve as guest of honor for Mexico’s independence day celebration Sept. 16. In his speech at the military…

Join Cuba Solidarity Caravans Sept. 26

Washington, UK, Australian rulers form new military bloc, target China

President Joseph Biden was joined by Scott Morrison and Boris Johnson, the prime ministers of Australia and Britain, Sept. 15 to announce a three-way military alliance — AUKUS. Committing the U.S. rulers and those of the two lesser imperialist powers…

Liberals plan 2022 race to demonize Trump, not tackle crisis workers face

With no end in sight to widespread joblessness, continuing deaths and lockdowns from COVID, inflation eating up our wages and employer attacks on working conditions, growing numbers of workers are looking for ways to use our unions to defend ourselves…

Correction

In the article “Back Locked-Out Oil Workers Standing Up to ExxonMobil” in issue no. 35, the name of the secretary-treasurer of USW Local 13-243 was incorrectly spelled. It should say Karla Konning.