Protests continue against retirement age hike in France

Vol. 87/No. 16 - April 24, 2023

AMIENS, France — Thousands of workers in this small city in northern France took to the streets as part of a nationwide day of work stoppages and demonstrations April 6. More than 130 protests were held around the country, involving…


Jailed migrants in Mexico killed in fire as guards watch

Vol. 87/No. 16 - April 24, 2023

Thirty-nine migrants seeking to find a place they could live and make a living died in a Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, detention center March 27 when officials there walked away and left them locked up during a fire. Another 27 remain…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 87/No. 16 - April 24, 2023

April 27, 1998 The governments of Britain and Ireland, and the parties participating in the talks in Northern Ireland published an agreement at the conclusion of their negotiations on April 10. The agreement establishes a Northern Ireland assembly, to be…



East Palestine: ‘Get out truth about derailment, cleanup’

Residents, rail workers seek control over their lives
Vol. 87/No. 16 - April 24, 2023
Cleanup of toxic spill in East Palestine, Ohio, after Feb. 3 Norfolk Southern derailment. Working people there are fighting to open rail bosses’ books, take control of health and cleanup.

EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — Working people, small farmers and small-business people here, as well as rail workers across the country, continue to discuss steps to advance their interests after the Feb. 3 Norfolk Southern train derailment and ensuing toxic chemical…


Support Ukraine independence! Moscow get out of all of Ukraine!

Vol. 87/No. 16 - April 24, 2023
Yelena Tarbayeva holds sign, “Putin eats children” at court in Tula region south of Moscow April 6. She traveled 600 miles from St. Petersburg to support Alexei Moskalyov and his daughter, Maria, persecuted and separated for their anti-war views after Maria drew picture like this.

After 10 months of bloody fighting for Bakhmut, currently the central battle in Ukraine’s defense of its independence, Moscow’s forces are using scorched-earth tactics to shell more of the city to rubble. They’re inching forward against Ukrainian troops holding high-rise…


SWP campaigns with ‘Militant,’ new book, fund for the paper

Vol. 87/No. 16 - April 24, 2023
Pete Bastounes, left, a member of Operating Engineers Local 150 in Morris, Illinois, told SWP member David Rosenfeld April 8 about supporting striking members of his union in Chicago area last year. He renewed his Militant subscription, bought three books on special offer.

“I remember you from last time, when I got a subscription to the Militant,” Pete Bastounes, a member of Operating Engineers Local 150, told Socialist Workers Party members Dan Fein and David Rosenfeld when they knocked on his door in…



Seniors on Medicaid face eviction from assisted-living homes

Vol. 87/No. 16 - April 24, 2023

To the profit-driven capitalist rulers, the lives of retired workers, especially those with disabilities, don’t mean much, as there’s no longer any profits to be made through exploiting their labor. One reflection of the social and moral crisis of their…