Assa Abloy workers strike for pay rise in New Zealand

Vol. 86/No. 25 - July 11, 2022

AUCKLAND, New Zealand — Thirty workers, members of the E tu union, picketed the Assa Abloy lock manufacturing plant here June 23, part of a 24-hour strike demanding a pay increase. The plant employs some 80 permanent and 50 temporary…




Moscow’s troops out now! Defend Ukrainian sovereignty!

Vol. 86/No. 25 - July 11, 2022
Volunteers, emergency workers search for survivors amid wreckage in shopping mall in Kremenchuk, central Ukraine, after June 27 Russian missile strike. Scores were killed or injured in attack. Kremlin claims Kyiv bombed itself to smear Russia.

In one of his most brazen acts of murder of innocent civilians in his invasion of Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin sent cruise missiles that hit a busy shopping mall June 27 in Kremenchuk, far from the front lines of…


UMWA rallies build solidarity for 15-month strike in Alabama

Vol. 86/No. 25 - July 11, 2022
Alabama miners picket Warrior Met job fair to hire scabs in Pennington Gap, Virginia, June 24. Bosses refuse to honor promise to restore wages, benefits, conditions lost by UMWA members.

“This is an opportunity to send another message to Warrior Met,” United Mine Workers of America President Cecil Roberts said in a video posted for union members, urging workers to come to the weekly strike support meeting at the union…



Bakery workers locked out in Quebec fight for wage raise

Vol. 86/No. 25 - July 11, 2022

BOUCHERVILLE, Quebec — Nearly two months after being locked out in response to a walkout, over 300 Quebec Bridor bakery workers continue their fight for wage raises to cover the cost of living as prices soar, and for safer work…


Nurses picket across Minnesota fighting for more staff, pay

Vol. 86/No. 25 - July 11, 2022

HASTINGS, Minn. — Dozens of nurses and their supporters gathered outside the Allina Regina Hospital here June 21 in an informational picket. The central issue is management hiring more nurses to allow for better care and an end to schedules…


Calif. nurses fight against inadequate supplies, staffing

Vol. 86/No. 25 - July 11, 2022
“We need adequate supplies and more staffing,” said nurse Emely Collado at Seton Medical Center in Daly City, California, during two-day strike called by California Nurses Association.

DALY CITY, Calif. — Nurses and other workers at the Seton Medical Center here led a successful fight two years ago to keep the hospital from closing, something that would have created a health care desert in this mostly working-class…


Defend the working class, our families, women’s rights

Vol. 86/No. 25 - July 11, 2022
Sara Lobman, SWP candidate for U.S. Senate from New York, discusses with Bram Lefevete at New York action May 14 after draft Roe v. Wade decision was “leaked” to the press.

This statement by Alyson Kennedy, Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor of Texas and the party’s 2020 presidential candidate, was released June 25. The Socialist Workers Party plans to redouble our efforts — our election campaigns, expanding the reach of…