LA hotel workers celebrate victory, continue fight

Vol. 88/No. 15 - April 15, 2024
Hotel workers, members of UNITE HERE, join news conference at InterContinental Hotel in Los Angeles March 25 to celebrate strike actions that won contract with large pay raise.

LOS ANGELES — More than 200 hotel workers, members of UNITE HERE Local 11, and their supporters held a press conference on the steps of the InterContinental Hotel here March 25 to celebrate their victory after ratifying the contracts the…


Endorse Rachele Fruit for president!

Vol. 88/No. 15 - April 15, 2024

We ask readers of the Militant to endorse the campaign of Rachele Fruit, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for president! Join efforts to win others to do so. Joseph Biden and Donald Trump garner support among their class, the capitalist…


Farmers in UK protest rising production costs

Vol. 88/No. 15 - April 15, 2024
Farmers protest government policies March 25 in London.

LONDON — With signs reading “Stop killing farming” and “No farmers, no food, no future,” up to 100 tractors descended on Parliament Square here March 25. Organized by the recently established Fairness for Farmers of Kent, the protest was the…



Cuba fights brutal effects of US rulers’ economic war

Vol. 88/No. 15 - April 15, 2024

For 65 years the U.S. government has carried out a far-reaching economic, trade and financial war against Cuba. This brutal policy has been continued by every one of the 13 Democratic and Republican administrations since 1959. The U.S. rulers’ stated…


Fight Jew-hatred! Defend Israel’s right to exist as a refuge for Jews!

Vol. 88/No. 15 - April 15, 2024
More than 1,000 people defend synagogue in Teaneck, New Jersey, April 1, outmobilizing 100 pro-Hamas protesters who claimed firsthand accounts of Oct. 7 pogrom atrocities given at fundraiser that night would “fuel Gaza genocide.” Gila Rachlin, who lives in the neighborhood, told the press, “I want them to know that the Jewish people can’t be intimidated.”

As the sixth-month anniversary of Hamas’ Oct. 7 pogrom against Jews in Israel approaches, the Israel Defense Forces are dealing blows to the reactionary Jew-hating group in Gaza and to the Tehran-led “axis of resistance.” But Hamas still holds some…



Rail workers in Canada wage fight over safety, work schedules

Vol. 88/No. 15 - April 15, 2024
Des cheminots membres des Teamsters manifestent devant les bureaux du Canadien National à Montréal, le 26 novembre 2019, pendant une grève de 8 jours pour la sécurité au travail. Les cheminots font face à une nouvelle épreuve de force avec les patrons le 22 août.

MONTREAL —Canada’s two major railroads — Canadian National and Canadian Pacific Kansas City — both filed a “notice of dispute” with the federal government Feb. 16, making it clear that the rail bosses intend to wage a combined fight against…


Putin regime cracks down on Central Asian immigrants

Vol. 88/No. 15 - April 15, 2024
Central Asian immigrant workers detained during Russian police raid on construction site in Moscow days after March 22 Islamic State terror attack. Kremlin has stepped up these arrests, deportations, while smearing Ukraine and its fight for sovereignty as responsible for the attack.

In the wake of the March 22 deadly Moscow terror attack by Islamic State Khorasan, a reactionary Islamist outfit, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime is targeting Muslim immigrants from Central Asia. The Kremlin is conducting police raids across the country…


Campaigners take SWP program far and wide

Vol. 88/No. 15 - April 15, 2024
After talking to Lea Sherman, SWP candidate for U.S. Congress from New Jersey, March 30, Amazon worker Wilson Cruz got Militant subscription, signed to put Rachele Fruit on ballot.

As part of campaigning across the country for Rachele Fruit, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. president, SWP supporters have kicked off a three-week effort to put her, along with Margaret Trowe for vice president and Joanne Kuniansky, the SWP…