‘Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’ strikers gain support, stay strong

Vol. 86/No. 44 - November 28, 2022

“Six stores in my area are handing their Post-Gazette paper bundle over to me after they receive it so I can return it to the company offices,” Jim “Hutchie” Vanlandingham told the Militant. Vanlandingham is a mailer and the Communications…


Toronto regional transit workers return to work

Vol. 86/No. 44 - November 28, 2022

TORONTO — After four days on strike, Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1587 reached a tentative agreement and returned to work. The strike was popular with fellow unionists in the region, coming after the Ontario provincial government enacted a series of…


California teaching instructors strike for higher wages, benefits

Vol. 86/No. 44 - November 28, 2022

BERKELEY, Calif. — Nearly 48,000 University of California researchers, teaching assistants, graders and others went on strike Nov. 14 in a fight for higher wages, benefits and better working conditions. The workers, members of the United Auto Workers, do more…


Workers in Europe strike, protest for raises to cover inflation

Vol. 86/No. 44 - November 28, 2022
In Bulgaria, thousands of protesters, organized by country’s two largest unions, rallied in Sofia Nov. 11, demand raises to combat inflation. Sign says, “Inflation is rising, our wages are not.”

Rising prices on basic necessities like food, fuel and housing worldwide have hit working people hard, leading to strikes and other protest actions in countries across Europe this week. Thousands took to the streets in France Nov. 10 to demand…


US rail unions set strike date over jobs, schedules, safety

Vol. 86/No. 44 - November 28, 2022
Members of Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way protest in 2022 in Nebraska. Rail workers look to continue fight for bigger crews, livable work schedules, more training for new hires.

LINCOLN, Neb. — Over 115,000 rail union members are counting down to early December to see if they’ll go out on strike in their ongoing fight to defend their jobs, safety and health from assault by the rail bosses. And…


‘Militant’, SWP go over the top in fall campaigns

Vol. 86/No. 44 - November 28, 2022
SWP campaigner Josefina Otero talks with Rafael Ramirez at truck stop outside Fort Worth, Texas, Sept. 27, about importance of fight to defend constitutional rights in face of FBI attacks.

Members of the Socialist Workers Party and Communist Leagues in Australia, Canada and the U.K. met their goals, winning 1,352 new readers to the Militant  and getting out 1,503 books by SWP leaders and other revolutionaries during the eight-week international…


Socialist Workers Party offers road forward

Vol. 86/No. 44 - November 28, 2022

Statement issued by John Studer, Socialist Workers Party national campaign director, Nov. 16. Socialist Workers Party candidates in 2022 were the only voice saying that politics is not Red vs. Blue, or liberal vs. conservative, but class vs. class. They…


Anti-labor outfit targets rail workers and their unions

Vol. 86/No. 44 - November 28, 2022

Rail workers are fighting today to push back their bosses and the government, both of which are responsible for working conditions that are dangerous, exhausting and tear at workers’ ability to have a family and union life. The fight they…


First Pathfinder e-books for blind readers are available

Vol. 86/No. 44 - November 28, 2022

The first six electronic books from Pathfinder Press fully accessible for readers who are blind or have low vision are now available from Bookshare.org. Pathfinder publishes books by Socialist Workers Party leaders and others that present a revolutionary working-class road…