BASILDON, England — “This is the best turnout yet,” Unite union shop steward Nick Brown commented as some 200 workers picketed the Case New Holland tractor plant here June 4. Over 500 workers at the factory have been on strike…
FORT WORTH, Texas — After a three-month hard-fought strike, members of Teamsters Local 997 at Molson Coors Brewery here accepted a three-year contract May 22. Workers said 270 voted yes and 84 voted no. They began returning to work May…
Rivalries, trade wars and the growing threat of more shooting wars are a reality across the capitalist world today. This future underscores the stakes for working people in organizing to take political power out of the capitalist rulers’ hands. Nowhere…
“Opposing US rulers’ assaults on freedoms protected by the Constitution and their use of the political police” is the title of the opening section of the political resolution adopted by the December 2022 Socialist Workers Party national convention. It is…
Supporters of the rights of workers behind bars, freedom of speech and the press are stepping up efforts to urge Florida prison officials to reverse their ban of Militant issue no. 17 at the Jackson Correctional Institution in Malone. Letters…
LINCOLN, Neb. — As part of their drive to intensify the pace of labor and slash workers, rail bosses in the U.S. are stepping up use of one-person remote-control operation of trains hauling freight. And they’re running larger and longer…
When Moscow’s tanks rolled into Ukraine over two years ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin told his troops they would be welcomed as liberators. Washington expected the invaders to take the capital and much of the country with little resistance. But…
Israeli soldiers now control most of Gaza’s border with Egypt, dealing blows to Hamas’ ability to collaborate with Tehran to launch new attacks on Jews and Israel, as well as on Gazans opposed to its reactionary rule. Israeli troops found…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — “I don’t believe in the other candidates,” Lycinda Richards, a disabled worker living in Johnson City, told Socialist Workers Party campaigners Arrin Hawkins and Richard Hazboun when they knocked on her door May 18. Hawkins and Hazboun…
UNION CITY, N.J. — “Two SWP candidates file as independents,” the Hudson County View reported June 1. Joanne Kuniansky, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Senate from New Jersey, and Lea Sherman, the party’s candidate for Congress, filed petitions…
