SWP says Hamas pogrom in Israel is threat to all workers

Vol. 87/No. 40 - October 30, 2023
Joanne Kuniansky, left, SWP candidate for New Jersey State Senate, joined Oct. 15 Livingston protest against the Hamas massacre in Israel. Sign shows Jew-hatred is a threat everywhere.

Workers and our unions have a critical stake in taking on and fighting to defeat every form of Jew-hatred wherever it appears. That’s what candidates and members of the Socialist Workers Party and the Communist Leagues in Australia, Canada and…


BNSF coal train derails in Colorado, kills truck driver

Vol. 87/No. 40 - October 30, 2023
BNSF coal train derails in Colorado, kills truck driver

On Oct. 15, 30 cars on a loaded Burlington Northern coal train passing near Pueblo, Colorado, derailed and brought a bridge crashing down onto Interstate Highway 25. It crushed a semitruck, killing the driver. This was the 177th derailment reported…



UAW expands strike at Big Three, 34,000 on picket lines

Vol. 87/No. 40 - October 30, 2023
UAW Local 862 members on strike at Ford Kentucky Truck Plant in Louisville Oct. 14. “Our priority is to protect jobs and workers’ livelihoods,” Local President Todd Dunn told the Militant.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Workers at the Ford Kentucky Truck Plant here, members of United Auto Workers Local 862, walked off the job Oct. 11, bringing the number of UAW workers on strike against the Big Three to over 34,000. They…


Support Memphis bakery workers strike over wages, safety and respect

Vol. 87/No. 40 - October 30, 2023
Cedric Wilson, right, president of BCTGM Local 390G on strike at International Flavors and Fragrances in Memphis,Tennessee, speaks at Oct. 18 rally outside IFF headquarters in New York. “We have union members with cancer, people with kids, some are losing their homes. But they’re all still in the fight,” he said. “There’s no other way, you have to fight.”

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — On the picket line at the International Flavors and Fragrances plant Oct. 11, strikers Darold Brooks, a mechanic, and Thad Beckman, a lead man, told this Militant  worker-correspondent about the horrendous safety record of the bosses here.…


Fight for workers power to end Jew-hatred

Vol. 87/No. 40 - October 30, 2023

It is in the interests of workers everywhere to speak out unequivocally against Tehran-backed Hamas’ pogrom in Israel and against Jew-hatred wherever it raises its head. This is vital in defending our unions and advancing the class-against-class battles the working…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 87/No. 40 - October 30, 2023

November 2, 1998 LONDON — In a flagrant abuse of the national sovereignty of Chile, British police arrested the country’s former military dictator, Augusto Pinochet, Oct. 17 on a warrant issued by two Spanish judges. The London Times pointed out…


SWP in 1938: Open US doors to victims of Hitler’s Nazi terror!

Vol. 87/No. 40 - October 30, 2023
Members of Socialist Workers Party helped initiate picket at German Consulate in New York in November 1938 demanding Washington open its doors to Jewish and other victims of Nazi terror. Party resolution said road to end Jew-hatred was fight for workers power, socialism.

The deadly Oct. 7 Hamas pogrom against Jews in Israel highlighted the danger of Jew-hating violence worldwide as the crisis of capitalism grows. Below are excerpts from “Theses on the Jewish question” and “Open the doors to victims of Hitler’s…


Rallies to demand end to US embargo of Cuba

Vol. 87/No. 40 - October 30, 2023

NEW YORK — Opponents of Washington’s six-decade-long economic war against Cuba will march and rally here Oct. 28 and in other cities worldwide that week. The actions are being organized to draw attention to the Nov. 2-3 U.N. General Assembly…


British Columbia sugar workers fight bosses’ concession demands

Vol. 87/No. 40 - October 30, 2023

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Some 135 members of Public and Private Workers of Canada Local 8 set up strike picket lines Sept. 28 outside Lantic’s Rogers Sugar refinery. The previous contract had expired in February. Pickets also set up on…