Sky Chef catering workers rally for pay raise at Miami airport

Vol. 87/No. 40 - October 30, 2023

MIAMI — Nearly 200 members of UNITE HERE Local 355 marched in the rain and rallied outside the LSG Sky Chef catering facility near Miami International Airport to back workers’ demand for an immediate raise to $20 an hour. Union…


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…


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…


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…


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…


Fight to win workers power and socialism to end Jew-hatred

Vol. 87/No. 39 - October 23, 2023

At an Oct. 10 rally in Miami to stand in solidarity with the Jews of Israel after the Nazi-style pogrom carried out by Hamas and its allies, Rachele Fruit, the 2024 Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Senate from Florida,…


Condemn Jew-hating pogrom! Defend Israel’s right to exist!

Vol. 87/No. 39 - October 23, 2023
Rachele Fruit, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. president, speaks to press at Oct. 10 event at Miami’s Holocaust Memorial to condemn Hamas pogrom in Israel. SWP is part of decadeslong continuity of communist movement in fight against Jew-hatred, she said.

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — The Holocaust Memorial here was the site of an Oct. 10 rally of some 3,000 in solidarity with the Jews of Israel after the Nazi-style pogrom three days earlier. “We distributed flyers for the next Militant…


Biggest massacre of Jews since the Nazi Holocaust

Vol. 87/No. 39 - October 23, 2023
Cars shot up, blocked as Jewish participants in all-night music festival near Gaza tried to flee Hamas’ murderous attacks Oct. 7. Killing or kidnapping Jews was Hamas’ main objective.

The murderous pogrom Oct. 7 by Hamas and its allies is a stark warning to all working people that Jew-hating slaughter and demagogy are a permanent reality of the world imperialist order. These heinous acts and the bourgeois leaderships that…


SWP tells truth about Hamas war on Jews, builds US labor struggles

Vol. 87/No. 39 - October 23, 2023
Lisa Potash, SWP candidate for U.S. Congress from Georgia, told Militant Labor Forum in Atlanta Oct. 8 that middle-class left falsely portrays Hamas as a national liberation organization. In fact it is “a reactionary Islamist puppet of Tehran” that rules Palestinians in Gaza by thuggery.

The Socialist Workers Party and Communist Leagues in Canada, Australia and the U.K. are campaigning to explain why Israel must be defended as a refuge for Jews and why the pogroms Hamas launched on Israeli citizens must be exposed and…


UAW members strike is a fight for the entire working class

Vol. 87/No. 39 - October 23, 2023
Chanting, “No deal? No wheels!” members of United Auto Workers Local 551 rallied at their union hall Oct. 7 in Chicago. The 4,600 workers at Ford there went on strike Sept. 29, bringing the total to 25,000 workers on strike against the Big Three auto companies in 21 states.

CHICAGO — Spirited chants of “UAW! UAW! UAW!” and “No deal? No wheels!” filled United Auto Workers Local 551’s Ford workers’ union hall here Oct. 7. Hundreds rallied to hear UAW President Shawn Fain and other speakers, part of the…