New Zealand CHEP pallet workers fight for higher pay

Vol. 86/No. 10 - March 14, 2022
Members of FIRST Union on strike against CHEP pallet company in Auckland, New Zealand, picket in front of plant Feb. 18. The workers, facing rising prices, are demanding wage raise.

AUCKLAND, New Zealand — Workers at the CHEP pallet company’s Service Center here have their picket line up 24 hours daily, with trucks and cars honking in support on this busy industrial road. The workers, members of FIRST Union, walked…


Join ‘Militant’ drive! Fight Moscow’s war on Ukraine!

Vol. 86/No. 10 - March 14, 2022
UPS worker Mark Rodriguez, left, renews Militant subscription at Teamster protest against pay cut for part-time workers Feb.23, San Francisco. At right, Joel Britton, SWP candidate for California governor. SWP has launched Militant drive to advance fight against Moscow’s war.

In response to Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, the Militant has launched a timely and needed international drive to expand the reach of the paper, win 1,600 new subscribers, sell 1,600 books by Socialist Workers Party and other revolutionary leaders presenting…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 86/No. 10 - March 14, 2022

March 17, 1997 DES MOINES, Iowa — On February 7 agents of the Immigration and Naturalization Service arrested 22 Latino workers at the Swift pork packinghouse in Marshalltown, alleging they were working without visas. The agents were accompanied by Swift…



Locked-out Ohio aerospace strikers win broad solidarity

Vol. 86/No. 10 - March 14, 2022

TROY, Ohio — “UAW Locked out!” declared signs carried by dozens of workers, members of the United Auto Workers Local 128, at two plant gates outside Collins Aerospace here Feb. 26. Passing drivers honked in support. Ellen Brickley, Jacquie Henderson…


‘We’ve entered an era of instability, economic crises and wars’

Vol. 86/No. 10 - March 14, 2022
Children sit on toppled statue of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin in Moscow, Sept. 11, 1991, after Soviet Union shattered. U.S. capitalist rulers thought this meant they won the Cold War, and that would bring global stability under their dominion. That has been proven utterly false.

To help explain what led to Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, this special feature has excerpts from “Their Transformation and Ours,” a Socialist Workers Party resolution adopted in 2005 and “Capitalism’s Long Hot Winter Has Begun.” Both articles appear in New…


Canadian truckers continue to face gov’t attack, keep pressing for rights

Vol. 86/No. 10 - March 14, 2022
Truck driver Wesley Green, right, at Lebanon, Ohio, truck stop Feb. 22 told Socialist Workers Party member Ned Measel he supports Canadian truckers and “protests outside White House.”

MONTREAL — Attacks continue against truckers and other participants in the recent Freedom Convoy organized in Ottawa demanding an end to government vaccine mandates, despite the protest ending and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau lifting the Emergencies Act Feb. 23. The…


Prosecutors quit as frame-up of former President Trump unravels

Vol. 86/No. 10 - March 14, 2022

After three years probing former President Donald Trump’s alleged financial skullduggery, two leading Manhattan prosecutors, Carey Dunne and Mark Pomerantz, quit Feb. 23, convinced there would be no prosecution of Trump. The grand jury they were running, empaneled as part…


Ukraine toilers put up fierce resistance to Putin’s invasion

Vol. 86/No. 10 - March 14, 2022

Unleashing a deadly bombardment on Ukrainian urban centers, the regime of Russian President Vladimir Putin is slaughtering thousands. Overwhelmingly outgunned and outmanned, Ukrainian troops and civilians are mounting courageous and tenacious resistance that has so far prevented Moscow’s forces from…


Jon Donaire strikers rally in hard-fought California battle

Vol. 86/No. 9 - March 7, 2022
Members of bakery workers’ union, on strike at Rich’s Jon Donaire Desserts since Nov. 3, rally in front of factory Feb. 12 in fight for wage raise, affordable health care and respect.

SANTA FE SPRINGS, Calif. — Some 200 people rallied here Feb. 12 in support of striking bakery workers, members of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 37, at Rich’s Jon Donaire Desserts factory. “I’ve been working for Jon…