With one week left, ‘Militant’ renewal drive is over the top

Vol. 86/No. 7 - February 21, 2022
SWP campaigner Leroy Watson, left, spoke to train car repairman William Robinson in Broadview, Illinois, Feb. 6. He renewed Militant subscription, looks for further discussions.

As we go into the final week of the international drive to expand the long-term readership of the Militant, supporters worldwide are poised to meet and exceed their goals. Overall, we’re already over the top, winning 310 renewals, 10 over…


SWP: ‘Combat Jew-hatred wherever it raises its head’

Vol. 86/No. 7 - February 21, 2022
Joanne Kuniansky, SWP candidate for US Congress in New Jersey, carries party placard: “It’s not ‘hate,’ it’s Jew-hatred!” in 2020 New York “No Hate, No Fear” rally that drew 25,000.

UNION CITY, N.J. — “The Socialist Workers Party and its candidates join working-class struggles against attacks by bosses and their parties, and present a course to lead workers to take power into our own hands,” Joanne Kuniansky, the SWP’s candidate…


Palestinians, Israelis unite against settler attack on West Bank

Vol. 86/No. 7 - February 21, 2022

Over a dozen masked unsanctioned settlers in the West Bank attacked a group of Palestinian farmers and their supporters from Israel Jan. 21 as they were planting trees by the village of Burin, south of Nablus. The attackers used clubs…


Striking bakery workers win support in hard-fought battle

Vol. 86/No. 7 - February 21, 2022
Striking members of BCTGM Local 37 in Los Angeles County have been on strike against Jon Donaire since Nov. 3. Unionists, supporters joined them Feb. 3 for rally in Boyle Heights.

LOS ANGELES — “We’ve been on the picket line rain and shine,” striker Elvia Castillo told a rally here outside a Baskin-Robbins store in Boyle Heights Feb. 3. “When you have to wake up early to be on the line,…


Communist continuity backing Ukraine independence

Vol. 86/No. 7 - February 21, 2022

As President Vladimir Putin demands Ukraine submit to Russian domination, Ukrainian workers and farmers are mobilizing to defend their independence. Putin rails against V.I. Lenin and the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution he led for its support to self-determination for those fighting…



Teachers across Iran strike over higher pay, pensions

Vol. 86/No. 7 - February 21, 2022
Teachers’ protest in Marivan in Iranian Kurdistan, Dec. 23. Banner on left says, “Free education is right of children.” Thousands held strikes and rallies across Iran in December and January for better pay, pensions and against pressure for workers to have to pay for public education.

Thousands of teachers, many of them women, held protests and strikes across Iran Jan. 31 — including outside the parliament in Tehran — calling for higher pay and pensions and opposing increasing moves to charge for public education. The semiofficial…


Scaffolders in U.K. step up pay fight, win support

Vol. 86/No. 7 - February 21, 2022

SCUNTHORPE, England — “Support has been great, from all over the U.K. and Ireland,” Unite union steward Dave Birchall told the Militant outside the British Steel plant that dominates this town Jan. 28. He is one of 60 striking scaffolders…