Back public workers on strike all across Canada

Workers fighting for pay raise to offset inflation
Vol. 87/No. 18 - May 8, 2023
Members of Agriculture Union in Public Service Alliance of Canada picket Port of Montreal April 24, part of strike by 155,000 Canadian federal government workers.

MONTREAL — In one of the largest labor actions in Canada in decades, more than 155,000 federal government workers, members of the Public Service Alliance of Canada, set up picket lines from one end of the country to the other…


Nurses and teachers in U.K. set strike action over pay

Vol. 87/No. 18 - May 8, 2023

MANCHESTER, England — Nurses, members of the Royal College of Nursing union, who before last December had never gone on strike in their 106-year history, voted April 14 to reject the government’s most recent pay offer, against their national officers’…


East Palestine working people fight for control over their lives

Vol. 87/No. 18 - May 8, 2023
Oil refinery worker Rich Miner, center, and Sheree Artis talk to Socialist Workers Party member Seth Galinsky in Paulsboro, New Jersey, April 23. Miner said he volunteered for the cleanup after 2012 derailment there, when vinyl chloride spilled, same chemical as in East Palestine.

EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — Workers, farmers and small-business people here continue to press for action to clean up the area and protect their health after the Feb. 3 Norfolk Southern train derailment, fire and burn-off of toxic vinyl chloride. They’re…


Drop all charges filed against the African People’s Socialist Party!

Vol. 87/No. 18 - May 8, 2023

Striking a serious blow at constitutional protections, Department of Justice prosecutors got a federal grand jury in Florida April 18 to indict three members of the African People’s Socialist Party and Uhuru Movement on trumped-up charges of being “foreign agents.”…


Back Ukraine independence! Moscow out of all of Ukraine

Vol. 87/No. 18 - May 8, 2023
The Putin regime in Russia has banned demonstrations against its invasion of Ukraine, but a rally against the rise in utility bills drew 300 people in Novosibirsk, 2,000 miles east of Moscow, in March. Similar protest actions were held in other cities, free of cop harassment.

As the first large-scale war in Europe since World War II grinds on, tensions between the world’s major capitalist powers grow and the world order imposed by Washington after the second imperialist slaughter is being shaken. At the same time…


Hey, they shrunk the Doritos, and Twinkies, and …

Vol. 87/No. 18 - May 8, 2023

As food prices keep rising, many companies are seeking to maximize profits through “shrinkflation,” which some workers call “skimpflation,” where they fiddle with the packaging and you end up paying the same price but get less. Bosses have been doing…


Join campaign to expand reach of ‘Militant,’ books

Vol. 87/No. 18 - May 8, 2023

“None of the politicians care about working-class people,” office worker Bernadette Keating told Communist League member Ögmundur Jónsson when he knocked on her door in Manchester, England, April 23. “Not just the government, but the others as well. We need…


Stockholm commuter train drivers strike over one-man crews

Vol. 87/No. 18 - May 8, 2023
Commuter train drivers April 17 in Stockholm on strike against boss push for one-person crews.

STOCKHOLM — At least 70 commuter train drivers walked off the job here on a three-day protest strike April 17, shutting down over 80% of traffic during the first two days. “By striking for our working conditions and the safety…


Hawaii hospital workers: ‘We’re proud’ voting up new contract

Vol. 87/No. 18 - May 8, 2023

WAIANAE, Hawaii — Members of the United Public Workers union at Maui Memorial Medical Center, Kula Hospital and Lanai Community Hospital in Maui County ended their nearly two-month strike April 14, voting 87% in favor of a new three-year contract.…


Chemical workers strike for pay raise, to reduce forced overtime

Vol. 87/No. 18 - May 8, 2023

HOPEWELL, Va. — Three hundred and forty chemical workers went on strike April 7 at the AdvanSix chemical plant here. The big majority are members of International Chemical Workers Union Local 591C, while others are represented by skilled trades unions,…