25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 88/No. 1 - January 1, 2024

January 11, 1999 LONDON — Thirty days after being sacked for a one-day strike, workers at the Skychef catering company at Heathrow airport are still standing firm. “We’re going to win it and that’s the end of the story,” said…


Unions need to join fight against Jew-hatred

Vol. 88/No. 1 - January 1, 2024

Wars in the imperialist epoch are an inevitable product of the natural workings of a system founded on exploitation and oppression. The death, destruction and suffering wars cause are hated by the working class that always bears the consequences. Nonetheless,…


Colorado ruling Trump off ballot is blow

Vol. 88/No. 1 - January 1, 2024

This statement by Socialist Workers Party National Campaign Director John Studer was issued Dec. 20. In a 4-3 ruling by Colorado’s all-Democratic-Party-appointed Supreme Court Dec. 19, Donald Trump was barred from appearing on the state’s presidential ballot in 2024. It…



Bosses’ profit drive, not the weather, is killing rail workers

Vol. 88/No. 1 - January 1, 2024
Rail bosses’ push for profits led to Canadian Pacific 2019 derailment killing three rail workers in British Columbia. From left, Daniel Waldenberger-Bulmer, Andrew Dockrell and Dylan Paradis.

MONTREAL — After a series of deadly accidents, the U.S. Federal Railroad Administration issued a recent “advisory” urging rail bosses to expand use of technology to deal with the increased danger of operating in adverse weather conditions. According to the…


Kindertransport — In 1938 London let a few Jewish children in

Vol. 87/No. 48 - December 25, 2023
Statue outside London train station commemorates Kindertransport children. To escape Nazi terror in Europe, for 10 months U.K. rulers let in 10,000 mainly Jewish children, but barred their families. They closed the door on millions seeking refuge from the Holocaust.

LONDON — Kindertransport, the evacuation to the U.K. of 10,000 mainly Jewish children fleeing Nazi persecution in 1938-39, is touted by capitalist politicians and the media as an example of the British government coming to the aid of the Jewish…


Defense of constitutional freedoms crucial for the working class today

Vol. 87/No. 48 - December 25, 2023

As President Joseph Biden’s reelection bid flounders, the heart of the Democratic Party’s 2024 campaign is to use the courts to stop Donald Trump’s campaign. Their legal tactics run from lawsuits aimed at ruling him off the ballot for “insurrection”…


SWP campaigns widely, advancing a road forward for the working class

Vol. 87/No. 48 - December 25, 2023
Alyson Kennedy, left, SWP candidate for U.S. Senate from Texas, spoke with editor Fatimah Azeem of the Mercury, student paper at University of Texas at Dallas, Dec. 8

Members and candidates of the Socialist Workers Party and the Communist Leagues in Canada, Australia and the U.K. are joining in discussions about the danger of Jew-hatred, the importance of Israel as a refuge for Jews, the struggle of the…


600,000 public workers go on strike against Quebec gov’t

Vol. 87/No. 48 - December 25, 2023

MONTREAL — The Quebec government is on a collision course with some 600,000 union teachers, education support workers, nurses and health care workers, social workers and other public workers, as well as the vast majority of working people who support…


Families of Putin’s troops: ‘Bring our boys home!’

Vol. 87/No. 48 - December 25, 2023
Protest in Moscow Nov. 7 demanding troops stationed in Ukraine for over a year be rotated home. It was called by The Way Home, a group of soldiers’ mothers and wives. Relatives held placards reading, “The mobilized are not robots. They need replacement,” and “Give the children back their fathers.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin tries to disguise his attempt to conquer Ukraine and its people as a war to defend “Mother Russia” from threats by Washington and NATO. In fact his goal is to reestablish the Russian Empire, denying Ukraine…