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Vol. 87/No. 18

May 8, 2023

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Back public workers on strike all across Canada

MONTREAL — In one of the largest labor actions in Canada in decades, more than 155,000 federal government workers, members of the Public Service Alliance of Canada, set up picket lines from one end of the country to the other…

Nurses and teachers in U.K. set strike action over pay

MANCHESTER, England — Nurses, members of the Royal College of Nursing union, who before last December had never gone on strike in their 106-year history, voted April 14 to reject the government’s most recent pay offer, against their national officers’…

Stockholm commuter train drivers strike over one-man crews

STOCKHOLM — At least 70 commuter train drivers walked off the job here on a three-day protest strike April 17, shutting down over 80% of traffic during the first two days. “By striking for our working conditions and the safety…

Hawaii hospital workers: ‘We’re proud’ voting up new contract

WAIANAE, Hawaii — Members of the United Public Workers union at Maui Memorial Medical Center, Kula Hospital and Lanai Community Hospital in Maui County ended their nearly two-month strike April 14, voting 87% in favor of a new three-year contract.…

Chemical workers strike for pay raise, to reduce forced overtime

HOPEWELL, Va. — Three hundred and forty chemical workers went on strike April 7 at the AdvanSix chemical plant here. The big majority are members of International Chemical Workers Union Local 591C, while others are represented by skilled trades unions,…

Oil workers in Iran strike for better wages, schedules

Contract oil workers went on strike in Iran April 15, demanding a 79% wage increase. And instead of working a debilitating 24 days on with six days off schedule, they are demanding a more humane 20 days of work followed…

Great Strike of 1877 showed the power of the US working class

The Great Labor Uprising of 1877 by Philip S. Foner is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for May. After five years of economic depression, West Virginia railroad workers went on strike in the face of wage cuts and…

The low point of labor resistance is behind us

Below are excerpts from the preface to The Low Point of Labor Resistance Is Behind Us: The Socialist Workers Party Looks Forward by SWP leader Mary-Alice Waters. Copyright © 2023 by Pathfinder Press. Reprinted by permission. The articles and documents…

In This Issue

Front Page Articles

Back public workers on strike all across Canada
East Palestine working people fight for control over their lives
Drop all charges filed against the African People’s Socialist Party!
Back Ukraine independence! Moscow out of all of Ukraine
Hey, they shrunk the Doritos, and Twinkies, and ...
Join campaign to expand reach of ‘Militant,’ books

Feature Articles

Cuban Embassy official speaks in L.A., protests US gov’t sanctions

Also In This Issue

Socialist Workers Party gets a response at L.A. book fair
Oil workers in Iran strike for better wages, schedules
Minn. protest: ‘Free political prisoners in Iran, Belarus, Russia!’
Same vinyl chloride chemical spilled in 2012 derailment in Paulsboro, NJ
Solidarity with workers in flood-hit California town
The low point of labor resistance is behind us
Join May Day marches for worker, immigrant rights
Campaign to expand reach of ‘Militant,’ books, fund

On the Picket Line

Nurses and teachers in U.K. set strike action over pay
Stockholm commuter train drivers strike over one-man crews
Hawaii hospital workers: ‘We’re proud’ voting up new contract
Chemical workers strike for pay raise, to reduce forced overtime

Books of the Month

Great Strike of 1877 showed the power of the US working class

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