Year: 2022

Ottawa uses Ukraine war to grow its military, attack workers’ rights

Vol. 86/No. 16 - April 25, 2022
Canadian troops patrol Kapyong in Korea in March 1951. Canadian rulers sent nearly 30,000 troops to join U.S.-led war in effort to crush unfolding workers and peasants revolution there.

MONTREAL — The Canadian government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is responding to Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine by beefing up its military forces. The rulers demand working people “sacrifice” for the war as they step up attacks on wages, conditions…

Back Ukraine independence!
Moscow’s troops out now!

Opposition to Putin’s war continues inside Russia
Vol. 86/No. 16 - April 25, 2022
Voluntarios en Slavutych, Ucrania, hogar de obreros de la vecina planta nuclear de Chernóbil, descargan el 10 de abril, tras expulsar a tropas rusas, comida y otras necesidades que escasean.

Seven weeks into Moscow’s war against independent Ukraine, the determined resistance of that country’s armed forces and its population in general — as well as demoralization wracking the Russian troops and ineptness of their officer corps — brought Russian President…

Build support for striking Warrior Met coal miners!

Vol. 86/No. 16 - April 25, 2022
Otis Sims, front, miner for 43 years, with co-worker Charles Foster at April 6 rally in McCalla, Alabama, marking one year of UMWA strike at Warrior Met. Support “means a lot,” said Sims.

McCALLA, Ala. — Over 1,500 United Mine Workers of America members, retirees, family members, other unionists, and community supporters rallied in Tannehill State Park here April 6 to back UMWA members on strike at Warrior Met Coal in nearby Brookwood.…

In religious freedom fight, court backs death row prisoner

Vol. 86/No. 16 - April 25, 2022

In an important ruling for the rights of workers behind bars, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled March 24 that states must accommodate death row inmates who want their pastor to pray aloud or touch them during their execution. The court…

SWP plans Minnesota campaigning May 17-31 to win spot on 2022 ballot

Vol. 86/No. 16 - April 25, 2022

The Socialist Workers Party in Minnesota is making plans for two weeks of special campaigning May 17-31 to take candidates Gabrielle Prosser for governor, Kevin Dwire for lieutenant governor and David Rosenfeld for U.S. Congress from one end of the…

Tens of thousands protest across Sri Lanka, demand gov’t resign

Vol. 86/No. 16 - April 25, 2022
Protest April 4, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, demands President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa resign. Rest of government quit amid turmoil over deep economic crisis.

Tens of thousands of protesters in Sri Lanka, from the mostly Tamil north to the largely Sinhalese south, marched April 9 demanding President Gotabaya Rajapaksa resign. The country of 22 million is facing its worst financial crisis since independence in…

Defeat of FBI entrapment case is a victory for political rights

Vol. 86/No. 16 - April 25, 2022

In a victory for political rights, prosecutors failed to convict any of four men who were entrapped and framed up by undercover FBI provocateurs, accused of conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to try and stop her pandemic mask…

Veterans of Belarus protests join Ukrainian resistance

Vol. 86/No. 16 - April 25, 2022

For weeks in 2020 hundreds of thousands of working people joined an uprising to bring down the regime of President Alexander Lukashenko in Belarus after he stole the presidential election. With backing from Russian President Vladimir Putin, Lukashenko put down…