Build solidarity with CN rail signal workers strike battle across Canada!

Vol. 86/No. 24 - July 4, 2022
June 20 picket line at Vancouver, British Columbia, rail yard at start of signal workers strike. IBEW members are fighting for wage increases, humane work schedules, safety.

MONTREAL — Some 750 signal and communications workers, members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, went on strike against the Canadian National Railway June 18 after negotiations broke down and the bosses demanded the union agree to submit unresolved…


Liberals assault on Trump, Supreme Court is threat to political rights

Vol. 86/No. 24 - July 4, 2022

The Democratic Party’s relentless drive to prevent former President Donald Trump from running again in 2024 stepped up a gear starting June 9 with hours of televised House Select Committee hearings probing the Jan. 6, 2021, incursion at the Capitol…


Over 10,000 rally against boss, UK gov’t attacks on living standards

Vol. 86/No. 24 - July 4, 2022
Picket line by rail workers in Manchester, England, June 21, part of daylong strike actions by more than 40,000 RMT members across the country for better pay and opposing job cuts.

LONDON — More than ten thousand trade unionists from around the U.K. joined a June 18 demonstration here to protest mounting assaults on living standards. The action was called by the Trades Union Congress. “We’re being mugged,” Mesol Sapie, a…


NYC gov’t seeks to keep people using drugs, reap tax bonanza

Vol. 86/No. 24 - July 4, 2022

Opioid overdoses ravaging cities and rural areas alike killed nearly 110,000 people in the U.S. last year. And increasing numbers of state governments are legalizing and seeking to profit off the sale of marijuana. At the Cannabis World Congress and…


Alabama miners win solidarity in strike against Warrior Met Coal

Vol. 86/No. 24 - July 4, 2022

Striking Warrior Met coal miners “are fighting against powerful forces in Alabama who want nothing more than to strip away everything we’ve earned,” United Mine Workers of America Secretary-Treasurer Brian Sanson told the national convention of the AFL-CIO union federation…


Moscow’s Ukraine invasion stirs turmoil in Middle East

Vol. 86/No. 24 - July 4, 2022

Putin’s war on Ukraine is having a ripple effect in the Middle East, including weakening Moscow’s forces in Syria. Along with Tehran-backed militias, the Russian intervention is essential to propping up the dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad. This is intensifying the…


Beijing suppresses Tiananmen vigil in Hong Kong

Vol. 86/No. 24 - July 4, 2022

“Compared to last year, government control this year was even stronger,” Daniel Chan wrote the Militant from Hong Kong June 15. He was referring to the large police operation blocking protesters there trying to hold a vigil to mark the…


Ukraine rail workers organize to resist Moscow’s war

Vol. 86/No. 24 - July 4, 2022

“We are called the iron people,” train driver Yurii Yelisieiev, 42, told the June 16 Wall Street Journal. He was referring to Ukrainian rail workers, who, as part of the resistance to Moscow’s war, have kept this vital freight and…


We need our own party, a labor party

Vol. 86/No. 24 - July 4, 2022

Statement by Lea Sherman, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Congress from New Jersey, June 22. Working people face high stakes in defending ourselves and our families from rampant price hikes and boss attacks today. The threat of an economic…


Taking the Socialist Workers Party’s program to the toilers

Conference discusses working-class response to capitalist crises, sets party convention
Vol. 86/No. 24 - July 4, 2022
Socialist Workers Party National Secretary Jack Barnes addresses conference.

Click below for downloadable pdfs of this article in English, French, and Spanish           “We have an unusual opportunity this year to go straight out of this conference into campaigning and other activity focused on the…