Canada rail workers fight for safety, demand right to strike

Vol. 88/ No. 30 - August 12, 2024

MONTREAL — Rail workers across Canada are awaiting the decision of the Canada Industrial Relations Board on their right to strike. The 9,300 conductors, engineers, yard workers and dispatchers at both the Canadian National and Canadian Pacific Kansas City railroads,…


Freedom Convoy trials are attack on rights in Canada

Vol. 88/ No. 30 - August 12, 2024
Truckers protest in Ottawa, Canada’s capital, Feb. 8, 2022, calling for an end to government pandemic restrictions threatening their livelihoods. Trudeau government put Freedom Convoy leaders on trial despite court ruling its use of the anti-labor Emergencies Act was illegal.

MONTREAL — Despite a strong ruling by Federal Court Justice Richard Mosley earlier this year saying Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government invoking the draconian Emergencies Act to crush a truckers’ protest in 2022 was unconstitutional and illegal, the trials of…


Join fight against Florida prison ban on the ‘Militant’!

Vol. 88/ No. 30 - August 12, 2024

It has been three months since prison authorities at Jackson Correctional Institution in Malone, Florida, banned Militant issue no. 17. The Militant promptly appealed the ban and since then dozens of letters have been sent to the Florida Department of…


Over 20,000 Boeing workers vote to authorize a strike in contract fight

Vol. 88/ No. 30 - August 12, 2024

SEATTLE — More than 20,000 Boeing workers, members of International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers District 751, met here at the Mariners Major League Baseball stadium July 17 and voted by over 99% to strike if they don’t have…


Congress discusses upgrading the draft and conscription of women

Vol. 88/ No. 30 - August 12, 2024
Exhausted U.S. troops in Vietnam in 1967. Washington’s 15-year war ended as opposition grew in the working class and among GIs, demonstrations spread. Protests also targeted the draft.

Since the watershed in world politics marked by Moscow’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine and the explosion of Jew-hatred on the heels of the Oct. 7 Tehran-backed Hamas pogrom that killed over 1,200 people, mostly Jews, in Israel, capitalist governments worldwide…


Israelis face threat of wider war by Tehran and Hezbollah

Vol. 88/ No. 30 - August 12, 2024
Sign held by Hamas supporter at Washington protest against Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu speaking to Congress July 24, shows “anti-Zionism” is simply Jew-hatred in the Nazi tradition.

Hezbollah’s missile attack on Majdal Shams, in the Israeli-ruled Golan Heights, killed 12 Druze Arab boys and girls and wounded 16 more at a soccer field July 27. The barbaric attack by the Tehran-backed group has increased the threat of…


Black sailors exonerated 80 years after port disaster

Vol. 88/ No. 30 - August 12, 2024
Loading ammunition at Port Chicago, California, naval depot. In October 1944, 50 Black enlisted men were court-martialed for “mutiny” for refusing to return to jobs after explosion there killed 320 people. Inset, Dec. 2, 1944, Militant editorial denouncing the verdict.

OAKLAND, Calif. — On July 17 Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro announced the exoneration of 50 Black sailors who had been tried for mutiny and jailed during World War II. The announcement came on the 80th anniversary of a huge…


US rulers stabilize their two parties, SWP wins a hearing

Vol. 88/ No. 30 - August 12, 2024
Striking nurses picket Santa Clara County hospital in Gilroy, California, April 3. More workers are willing to fight today, leading to interest in the Socialist Workers Party 2024 campaign.

In recent weeks the U.S. rulers have succeeded in reestablishing some stability in their two-capitalist-party political setup, with both Democrats and Republicans uniting behind their respective candidates, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. They’re each setting out to rally interest and…


‘The working class needs its own party, a party of labor’

Vol. 88/ No. 30 - August 12, 2024
Kevin Dwire, left, SWP candidate for U.S. Senate, and bakery worker Tyler Hurtgen campaigning at 90th anniversary celebration of 1934 Minneapolis Teamster strikes. Rafael Espinoza, a union leader during 2001 UFCW organizing drive at Dakota Premium Foods in St. Paul, signs petition to put Rachele Fruit, the party’s presidential candidate, on the ballot in Minnesota.

Workers across Minnesota sign to put SWP on ballot MINNEAPOLIS — Thousands of workers in Minnesota are learning about the Socialist Workers Party and its candidates, Rachele Fruit for U.S. president and Dennis Richter for vice president, as the party…