Corrections

Vol. 87/No. 27 - July 24, 2023

The article “Crises of child care, education, medical care hit workers hard” in Militant issue no. 25 incorrectly said medical debts make up about half of all outstanding debt in the country, reporting erroneous data from the New York Times.…


Canadian longshore workers fight for raise, job protection

Bosses look to Ottawa to ban Pacific Coast strike
Vol. 87/No. 27 - July 24, 2023
Striking ILWU dockworkers rally in Vancouver, British Columbia, July 9, drawing widespread solidarity. Support has come from UNITE HERE Local 40 members on strike at Sheridan Hotel at the airport, and from dockworkers’ unions in Australia, New Zealand and the U.S.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Some 2,000 International Longshore and Warehouse Union Canada dock and warehouse workers and supporters rallied downtown here July 9 in a show of strength and solidarity for their strike. The strike by 7,400 union members has…


What is road to unify, strengthen working class?

Vol. 87/No. 27 - July 24, 2023
Rally in solidarity with United Mine Workers strike at Warrior Met, 2021, in Alabama. Today’s “diversity” programs have nothing in common with fights like Kaiser case that broke down bosses’ racist discrimination, advanced unity among working people and strengthened unions.

In a 6-3 vote the U.S. Supreme Court overturned admissions programs at Harvard and the University of North Carolina June 29. The court ruled that both colleges used race to favor some applicants at the expense of others, violating the…


SWP meeting in California maps out bold 2024 campaign

Vol. 87/No. 27 - July 24, 2023
Laura Garza, rail worker and SWP candidate for U.S. Senate from California, joins hotel workers in UNITE HERE Local 11 on strike picket line July 2 at InterContinental Hotel in Los Angeles.

LOS ANGELES — “Laura Garza is not just a Socialist Workers Party candidate in California. This is a campaign for the working class in the United States,” Alyson Kennedy, SWP candidate for mayor of Fort Worth, Texas, last May, told…



NOW conference participants debate over perspectives

Vol. 87/No. 27 - July 24, 2023
Workers in 2021 strike at Frito-Lay in Topeka, Kansas, pushed back against brutal schedules and unlivable wages that tear away at workers’ families, and their lives outside work. Participants at NOW conference debated how this fight is crucial to road to women’s emancipation.

ARLINGTON, Va. — Some 250 women and men gathered for the National Organization for Women’s annual conference here June 30-July 2. The theme was “We Won’t Stop: Organizing Until Equity for All.” The NOW leadership promoted a renewed effort to…


Working people in Ukraine show resolve to defend their sovereignty

Vol. 87/No. 27 - July 24, 2023

Despite Moscow’s air superiority and greater troop numbers, the Ukrainian army and thousands of volunteer fighters continue to push back President Vladimir Putin’s attempts to conquer Ukraine. They’re backed by a civilian population growing more determined as the brutal consequences…


California hotel workers strike over pay, workload

Fight for ability to raise families, to end E-Verify
Vol. 87/No. 26 - July 17, 2023
Thousands of striking hotel workers, mainly women, marched July 4 in Los Angeles, above, and in Santa Monica. Members of UNITE HERE are demanding an immediate $5 hourly wage raise.

LOS ANGELES — A spirited rally of 2,000 hotel workers took place on July 4 in downtown Los Angeles. Another was held in Santa Monica. Two days earlier hundreds picketed in front of the Intercontinental Hotel here They chanted “Únete.…



Profit drive of the rail bosses behind disaster in East Palestine

Vol. 87/No. 26 - July 17, 2023
Rail workers rally at Columbus, Ohio, Statehouse Dec. 13, 2022. Unions fought for a contract with improved safety for themselves and communities near tracks. President Biden led bipartisan Congress to bar a strike after rail workers voted down bosses’ proposals.

EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — The results of the June 22-23 National Transportation Safety Board hearings here are unmistakable. The Feb. 3 derailment of Norfolk Southern train 32N, subsequent toxic leaks and fires and current challenges facing working people throughout the…