SWP campaigns for a program to unite workers and farmers in struggle

Vol. 87/No. 32 - August 28, 2023
“I want nothing but the real facts. We have to understand the world today,” construction worker Lorenzo Rainwater told SWP candidates Henry Dennison, left, and Vincent Auger, right, in Seattle Aug. 9, as he bought the Militant and asked them to come back for further discussion.

FRESNO, Calif. — Laura Garza, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Senate from California, addressed a meeting of the African American Farmers of California at a local restaurant here Aug. 11. Thirteen people took part. In brief remarks, Garza noted…


Military coup in Niger heightens tensions in Africa

Vol. 87/No. 32 - August 28, 2023

Gen. Abdourahmane Tchiani overthrew the government of President Mohamed Bazoum in Niger July 26, amid deteriorating conditions facing millions of workers and farmers as well as attacks by Islamist terrorist groups. The takeover sharpened tensions between the French imperialist rulers,…


Hotel workers protest violence against pickets in California

Vol. 87/No. 32 - August 28, 2023
Striking hotel workers, members of UNITE HERE Local 11, rally in Long Beach, California, Aug. 11 in fight for contract and against violent attacks by hotel security on picket lines.

LONG BEACH, Calif. — Hundreds of hotel workers and their supporters protested outside the Hotel Maya in Long Beach Aug. 11, and at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica and the Laguna Cliffs Marriott in Dana Point the next…


Bus drivers strike at Autobus Venise in fight for higher wages

Vol. 87/No. 32 - August 28, 2023

SALABERRY-DE VALLEYFIELD, Quebec — Unifor Local 700 bus drivers working for Autobus Venise commemorated four months on strike here Aug. 3. They are fighting against inadequate and patronizing boss proposals. “We want to negotiate, but we won’t negotiate for nothing,”…


Bosses drive for profits, rail workers lose lives and limbs

Vol. 87/No. 32 - August 28, 2023
Rail workers picket North American Rail Shippers’ Kansas City conference, May 2022, during contract negotiations. Four rail workers have been killed on the job in the last seven weeks.

Since the Feb. 3 Norfolk Southern derailment and fires contaminated East Palestine, Ohio, working people everywhere have been paying attention to the job conditions and life disruptions the bosses’ drive for profits inflicts on rail workers and their families. During…


Cuba’s working people defended their revolution arms in hand

Vol. 87/No. 32 - August 28, 2023
Cuban militia members celebrate successfully defending their socialist revolution against an April 1961 invasion at Playa Girón fomented by the capitalist rulers in Washington.

Cuba and the Coming American Revolution by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for August. The excerpt is from the chapter “There will be a victorious revolution in the…


Thomas Sankara showed road forward

Vol. 87/No. 32 - August 28, 2023

The course led by Thomas Sankara in Burkina Faso is a powerful example to working people across Africa, in the U.S. and worldwide. Tens of millions confront social and economic crises, the deadly consequences of Moscow’s war in Ukraine and…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 87/No. 32 - August 28, 2023

August 24, 1998 “Fidel, Fidel!” roared an enthusiastic crowd when Cuban president Fidel Castro arrived in Grenada Aug. 2 on the last stop of a week-long tour through the English-speaking Caribbean. Just 15 years ago, U.S. forces invaded Grenada, occupied…


LA hotel, city workers strike, join fights by actors, writers

Common actions build working-class solidarity
Vol. 87/No. 31 - August 21, 2023
Over 11,000 Los Angeles city workers, including sanitation and airport workers, mechanics, gardeners and lifeguards, held 24-hour strike Aug. 8, protesting understaffing and overwork.

LOS ANGELES — Hotel workers held their fourth round of rolling strikes here Aug. 3-7. Thousands of UNITE HERE Local 11 members struck at 26 of the 60 area hotels where union contracts had expired June 30. Area hotels are…