Join SWP at Int’l Active Workers Conference in Ohio July 22-24

Vol. 85/No. 28 - July 19, 2021

The Socialist Workers Party-hosted International Active Workers Conference at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio, July 22-24, is fast approaching. This will be the first opportunity in two years to join together nationally with so many fellow working-class fighters over three…


US military quits Afghanistan in haste and defeat

Vol. 85/No. 28 - July 19, 2021

An Afghan soldier on guard after U.S. departure from giant Bagram air base July 2. It had been the hub of Washington’s military operations in its 20-year-long war in Afghanistan. Most forces flew out overnight, turning off power and water…


Chicago hospital workers strike for higher pay, increased staffing

Vol. 85/No. 28 - July 19, 2021
Over 400 hospital workers on strike in Chicago area rally June 29 outside Cook County president’s office in fight for more pay and against high cost of health care coverage.

CHICAGO — Some 2,000 Cook County Health hospital workers went on strike here June 25 in a fight for higher pay. The workers, including custodians, technicians, health care professionals and clerks, are members of Service Employees International Union Local 73.…



Kansas Frito-Lay workers strike over pay, forced overtime

Vol. 85/No. 28 - July 19, 2021

Some  800 workers at the PepsiCo-owned Frito-Lay plant in Topeka, Kansas, went on strike July 5. Members of Local 218 of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Union  are fighting for a pay raise, better conditions and against…


Quebec poultry workers make gains, defend right to strike

Vol. 85/No. 28 - July 19, 2021

MONTREAL — Some 550 poultry workers at the Exceldor packinghouse, who went on strike May 23, made gains in a new contract and defended their right to strike. The plant is in Saint-Anselme, south of Quebec City.  By a vote…


Supreme Court overturns California disclosure law

Vol. 85/No. 28 - July 19, 2021

An important victory for political rights was won July 1 when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to overturn a California regulation requiring tens of thousands of charities there to hand over lists of donors to state officials.  The decision…


Join the SWP campaigning for a future truly worth living

Vol. 85/No. 28 - July 19, 2021

Statement by Malcolm Jarrett, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Pittsburgh mayor, July 7. Striking steelworkers at Allegheny Technologies Inc. and autoworkers at Volvo Trucks in Virginia are discussing tentative deals reached by their unions. Oil refinery workers locked out by…


Capitalist rulers aim to solve gov’t deficit on workers’ backs

Vol. 85/No. 28 - July 19, 2021
Protest in Philadelphia by retired workers against Social Security cuts in late 1980s. Rich bondholders demand government cut social wage, not profitable interest payments on government bonds, to cover rising state debts. This attack hits what working people see as a social right.

Capitalism’s World Disorder: Working-Class Politics at the Millennium by Jack Barnes is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for July. Barnes is the national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party. The excerpt is from the section “Bondholders and the…


Thank you to contributors to Militant Fighting Fund

Vol. 85/No. 28 - July 19, 2021

July 7, 2021 Dear Friends, Thank you to all our readers who generously contributed to the Militant Fighting Fund. This was run in conjunction with the 2021 spring circulation campaigns for the Militant newspaper and books by revolutionary leaders of…