25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 86/No. 36 - October 3, 2022

October 6, 1997 SACRAMENTO, California — Shouting “¡Sí, se puede!” and “Justice! Now!” more than 1,000 farm workers and janitors, along with other unionists, students, and community activists, marched through this state capital September 18, led by the United Farm…



“Back rail workers’’ struggles! No worker has to die on the job!

Vol. 86/No. 36 - October 3, 2022

This statement by Naomi Craine, a rail worker and member of the SMART-TD union and Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor in Illinois, was released Sept. 20. Rail workers continue to face a relentless offensive from carrier bosses determined to…


Protest Putin’s new war moves! Defend Ukraine independence!

Protests in Russia: ‘No to war! No to mobilizations!’
Vol. 86/No. 36 - October 3, 2022
Manifestantes (izq.), en Ulan-Ude en Siberia con carteles contra guerra contra Ucrania y nuevas movilizaciones, 21 septiembre. Der., manifestantes en Moscú, corearon, “¡No a guerra!” “¡Envíen a Putin a las trincheras!” Miles protestaron a pesar de represión y arrestos por la policía.

Advances by Ukrainian forces, backed by the local population, fighting Moscow’s invasion have set back Russian President Vladimir Putin’s attempt to crush the country’s independence. Weakened by recent battlefield reversals, Putin’s regime also faces growing pressure from opponents at home,…


White House, FBI attacks on constitutional rights continue

Vol. 86/No. 36 - October 3, 2022

Since Joseph Biden’s Sept. 1 speech singling out “MAGA Republicans” as a “clear and present danger,” the president and other Democrats continue to target former President Donald Trump and the tens of millions who voted for him as a danger…


Rail unionists debate contract deal, vow to keep up fight

Vol. 86/No. 36 - October 3, 2022
Massive 3-mile-long cargo train in Southern California in 2020. Rail bosses are pushing longer freight trains, one-person “crews,” unsafe and inhuman schedules, on call 24/7. These conditions wreak havoc on rail workers’ lives and endanger them, other workers and communities near the tracks.

LINCOLN, Neb. — In the next several weeks, nearly 100,000 union rail workers will vote on tentative agreements negotiated by rail union officials on the one side and five Class 1 rail companies and 30 local railroad bosses, organized together…



SWP campaigns to build support for labor battles, win new readers

Vol. 86/No. 36 - October 3, 2022
BSNF rail worker Gary Cockerham, right, told SWP member Dennis Richter, center, in Ft. Worth Sept. 20 about how crew cuts and increasingly longer trains make rail work more dangerous.

Members of the Socialist Workers Party — and Communist Leagues in Australia, Canada and the U.K. — are going out to workers’ doorsteps, union picket lines, labor movement events and protest actions to discuss conditions confronting workers and farmers today,…


Yazidis fight to return home seven years after defeat of Islamic State

Vol. 86/No. 35 - September 26, 2022
Rudaw/Bilind T. Abdullah Yazidi refugee camp in Iraq’s Kurdistan region. Hundreds of thousands of Yazidis are blocked from returning to their homeland, which they fled after Islamic State genocide in 2014.

LONDON — Eight years after the reactionary Islamic State’s genocidal attack on the Yazidi people in the Sinjar region of northern Iraq, hundreds of thousands of Yazidis remain determined to return to their towns and villages and rebuild their lives,…


1962 ‘missile’ crisis book tells story from Cuba’s side

Vol. 86/No. 35 - September 26, 2022

Pathfinder Press has released a 60th anniversary printing of October 1962: The ‘Missile’ Crisis as Seen from Cuba. The full story of that moment is told for the first time from the perspective of the Cuban people, whose determination to…