Strikers at Bakkavor in UK say fight is strengthening their union

Vol. 88/No. 42 - November 11, 2024

SPALDING, England — As they enter their fifth week on strike for higher pay, Unite members at the food giant Bakkavor say their union is getting stronger. Over 100 workers in the plant have now joined the 700 who initially…


‘Reads as if it had been written today’

Vol. 88/No. 42 - November 11, 2024
Mary-Alice Waters, left, and Isabel Moya, at Feb. 14, 2011, Havana launch of Cuban edition of Cosmetics, Fashions and the Exploitation of Women. The book takes up “the explosive development of the consumerist phase of imperialism,” Moya said, “a phase that today, paradoxically, has reached both its highest expression and its deepest crisis.”

“Is the use of cosmetics worth the attention of a Marxist?” JACK BUSTELO “Naked or clothed, dressed in linen or polyester, shaved, plucked, tattooed, painted, adorned with pearls or ceramic beads, siliconed, liposuctioned, covered with visible or invisible scars, with…



‘Glad I stopped to talk,’ rail worker tells Richter

Vol. 88/No. 42 - November 11, 2024
‘Glad I stopped to talk,’ rail worker tells Richter

CINCINNATI — Dennis Richter, Socialist Workers Party candidate for  vice president, brought the party’s working-class program to rail workers at the CSX Queensgate yard here Oct. 28. Jennifer Noell was among those who stopped to talk. “I’ve seen your campaign…


Join last 3 weeks in ‘Militant,’ books and SWP fund drive!

Vol. 88/No. 42 - November 11, 2024

FORT WORTH, Texas — Marthen Goo, a member of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua, met Socialist Workers Party members George Chalmers and myself in Enid, Oklahoma, Oct. 20. Goo recently moved there and was encouraged by other members…


BRICS meets in Russia, tries to cement anti-US bloc

Vol. 88/No. 42 - November 11, 2024

The BRICS alliance, led by Beijing and Moscow to counter Washington, held its annual summit Oct. 22-24, hosted by Russian President Vladimir Putin. Behind its veneer of unanimity, the conference highlighted the divergent interests within the bloc, tensions over Moscow’s…


Join us in expanding the reach of SWP, ‘Militant’

Vol. 88/No. 42 - November 11, 2024
Rachele Fruit, right, SWP candidate for president, talks with Isabel Beteta at BeLoved Asheville aid center Oct. 18. She is one of hundreds of volunteers who came to aid hurricane victims in North Carolina.

Vote for Rachele Fruit and Dennis Richter, the Socialist Workers Party candidates for president and vice president, and the party’s candidates for Congress and Senate around the country Nov. 5! And join party members in the days and weeks ahead…


Boeing workers vote to continue their strike, win broad support

Vol. 88/No. 42 - November 11, 2024
Huelguistas del sindicato IAM en planta de Boeing en Renton, Washington, 21 de octubre, antes de rechazar firmemente oferta de contrato de la empresa el 23 de octubre. La propuesta no incluía un plan de pensiones. “Más trabajadores están organizando sindicatos y los están utilizando”, dijo Rachele Fruit, candidata del PST para presidente de Estados Unidos.

SEATTLE — Members of the International Association of Machinists District 751 and W24 decisively voted down Boeing’s latest contract offer — by 64% — Oct. 23. Some 33,000 workers at the aerospace manufacturer from here in Washington to Southern California…


UN votes to condemn US economic war against Cuba

Vol. 88/No. 42 - November 11, 2024
Cuban Minister of Foreign Affairs Bruno Rodríguez, center, addresses supporters Oct. 30 at U.N. where resolution against U.S. embargo on Cuba passed 187-2 with one abstention.

In a special two-day session, the United Nations General Assembly met Oct. 29-30, debated and voted overwhelmingly in favor of a resolution submitted by Cuba calling for an end to Washington’s punishing 65-year economic war against the island’s people and…


SWP leaders explain deepening showdown in the Middle East

Vol. 88/No. 42 - November 11, 2024
Hamas thugs in Khan Younis, Gaza, with woman brutally taken hostage from Israel Oct. 7, 2023. Anti-Jewish pogrom by Tehran-backed terror group launched war across Middle East.

NEW YORK — “One year after the Oct. 7 pogrom in Israel, there is no change in the decadeslong reactionary aims of the regime in Tehran and the organizations it leads, Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis and others,” said Dave Prince,…