US rulers push Ukraine to back off fight for national sovereignty

Vol. 88/No. 39 - October 21, 2024
Apartment buildings hit by Moscow’s bombardment in Vuhledar, Donetsk region of Ukraine. After most residents of the mining town, which has been fought over for much of the war, were evacuated, Ukrainian forces retreated Oct. 1. Russian troops have suffered heavy losses there.

The U.S. rulers are pressing the Ukrainian government to back off from conquering the full restoration of its sovereign borders, after more than two and a half years of Moscow’s invasion and war. Washington’s goal is to advance its own…


‘Is the fight for workers to take political power realistic?’

Vol. 88/No. 39 - October 21, 2024

MINNEAPOLIS — “I know you! I already voted for you,” Timothy Frankland called out to Rachele Fruit, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. president, after seeing her walking the picket line Oct. 1 in support of his union, the…


Join drive to get word out on SWP campaign, ‘Militant’

Vol. 88/No. 39 - October 21, 2024

Expanding the reach of the Socialist Workers Party campaign — Rachele Fruit for president, Dennis Richter for vice president and local candidates across the country — and winning endorsers for the ticket is at the center of an eight-week international…


Striking food workers say wage proposal is an ‘insult’

Vol. 88/No. 39 - October 21, 2024

SPALDING, England — Some 700 workers at the Bakkavor food factory here, members of the Unite trade union, walked out Sept. 27 over demands for higher pay. When two Militant worker-correspondents visited their lively picket lines Oct. 2, we found…


Contract rail workers in UK win fight for union recognition

Vol. 88/No. 39 - October 21, 2024
Manchester Carlisle Support Services rail workers, who check tickets on Northern Trains, in strike protest Jan. 27, one of many over years. They won broad support from other rail workers.

MANCHESTER, England — “We’ve won a major victory,” said David Lawrence, one of the leaders of the many-years-long fight to win union recognition by more than 150 rail workers employed by contractor Carlisle Support Services. They won recognition of the…


‘Workers and farmers had no power or water for days’

Vol. 88/No. 39 - October 21, 2024
“Trees are down everywhere,” Willie Head, who has a small farm near Valdosta, Georgia, told the Militant Oct. 6. Like other farmers, Head is dealing with damage to home and his farm.

VALDOSTA, Ga. — “Trees are down everywhere. People have been without power for days. Many haven’t had water,” Willie Head, who has a small farm near here, told Militant correspondents Sam Manuel and me Oct. 6. We were driving through…


SWP’s founding program points road for workers to win power

Vol. 88/No. 39 - October 21, 2024
Sit-down strikers, new members of United Auto Workers union, in Ford assembly plant in Kansas City, Missouri, April 1937. Transitional program was discussed, adopted by SWP on heels of these stormy events.

The Transitional Program for Socialist Revolution by Leon Trotsky is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for October. The excerpt below is from “The death agony of capitalism and the tasks of the Fourth International,” the program adopted in…


Dockworkers win 62% raise, pause strike till Jan. 15 for talks on jobs

Vol. 88/No. 39 - October 21, 2024
International Longshoremen’s Association members on picket line in Seabrook, Texas, Oct. 2. After wage increase was won, the union extended old contract until Jan. 15, and workers returned to work while other key issues, including jobs and automation, are negotiated.

Large picket lines set up by thousands of striking dockworkers solidly shut down East and Gulf coast ports for three days, showing the power of organized labor in action. The United States Maritime Alliance, representing bosses at shipping lines and…


Prison authorities uphold ban on ‘Militant’ issue in Florida

Vol. 88/No. 39 - October 21, 2024

After being forced to wait over a month, the Militant  finally learned that the Florida Department of Corrections Literature Review Committee had once again upheld the ban on Militant issue no. 17 at Jackson Correctional Institution in Malone at its…