Month: October 2022
Help spread the word about the SWP campaign!
Vol. 86/No. 41 - November 7, 2022![Deborah Liatos, right, SWP candidate for U.S. Congress, talks with people at rally of thousands in Los Angeles Oct. 1 protesting death of Mahsa Amini in Iran after arrest by “morality” police.](https://themilitant.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Iran_rally_8641-300x212.jpg)
With elections less than two weeks away, Socialist Workers Party candidates and campaign supporters are stepping up efforts to reach working people with the party’s program. Campaigners are bringing solidarity to strike picket lines, talking to workers and farmers door…
Attacks on ‘right to life’ clinics threaten fight for women’s emancipation
Vol. 86/No. 41 - November 7, 2022![Hollywood, Florida, pregnancy center graffitied in May by leftist thugs “Jane’s Revenge,” part of surge of violent attacks, firebombing, vandalism on “right-to-life” clinics in recent months.](https://themilitant.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Graffiti_8641-300x206.jpg)
Since the May 2 leak of the U.S. Supreme Court’s draft opinion holding Roe v. Wade as unconstitutional, there have been at least 70 violent attacks directed against crisis pregnancy centers and offices of groups opposed to decriminalizing abortion. The…
Rail workers protest, debate road forward to defeat bosses’ attacks
Vol. 86/No. 41 - November 7, 2022![BMWE Lodge 0695 members win support for fight for paid sick days outside Oct. 23 Baltimore Ravens game. One woman going by responded, “Everyone deserves sick days, everyone!”](https://themilitant.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Rail_8641-300x207.jpg)
LINCOLN, Neb. — The big railroad bosses and their well-heeled capitalist investors are determined to keep their profits high at the expense of the lives and safety of the very workers who do all the work. Over 100,000 rail workers…
Vote Socialist Workers Party, back working class struggles!
Vol. 86/No. 41 - November 7, 2022![Alyson Kennedy with Gerardo Sánchez, right, Socialist Workers Party candidates for governor of Texas and U.S. Congress, speak to unionists at May 1 picnic at Lake Cliff Park, Dallas.](https://themilitant.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/SWP-candidates_8641-300x223.jpg)
With early voting already underway, both Democrats and Republicans claim the midterm elections are the most important in decades. The bosses’ two main parties are laser focused on factional battles against each other. Whichever party controls the House and Senate…
Ukraine pushes Moscow back, defending its independence!
Vol. 86/No. 41 - November 7, 2022Eight months into its invasion of Ukraine, Moscow is resorting to the systematic bombing of civilian areas of Ukraine’s major cities and the destruction of vital infrastructure, as a Ukrainian counteroffensive threatens to retake the city of Kherson in the…
San Bernardino Amazon workers fight for a raise
Vol. 86/No. 41 - November 7, 2022SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. —“We want safety, no retaliation,” several hundred community members and unionists chanted, joining over 100 workers from Amazon’s largest air freight facility on the West Coast, called KSBD Oct. 14. They carried signs saying, “Prime shoppers beware,…
Join protests to oppose US economic war on Cuba!
Vol. 86/No. 41 - November 7, 2022Demonstrations and other activities will take place in more than a dozen cities across the U.S., Canada and the U.K. from Oct. 28 to Nov. 3 calling for the end to Washington’s more than 60-year-long economic war on Cuba. The…
Back Ukraine people’s fight for sovereignty
Vol. 86/No. 41 - November 7, 2022Statement by John Studer, Socialist Workers Party national campaign director, issued Oct. 26. Studer made three reporting trips to Ukraine in 2014 and 2015. Socialist Workers Party candidates present an independent working-class foreign policy that starts from the common class…
Iran protests expand, win support, challenge regime
Workers’ strikes add momentum to the protests
Vol. 86/No. 41 - November 7, 2022![Huge crowd Oct. 26 at cemetery in Saqqez, Kurdish region of Iran, hometown of Mahsa Amini, 40 days since her death in the hands of Tehran’s “morality” police. Protests keep growing.](https://themilitant.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Multitud-en-cementerio-en-Saqqez_8641jpg-300x213.jpg)
Teachers across Iran joined three days of mourning and then held “sit-ins” at elementary and high schools across the country Oct. 23 and 24 in response to the call by the Coordinating Council of Iranian Teachers Trade Union Associations “to…