Milk-Bone strikers fight attacks on health care, win labor support

Vol. 88/No. 44 - November 25, 2024
Teamster Local 446 members join BCTGM Milk-Bone strikers Nov. 10 in Buffalo, New York.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Some 30 members and supporters of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 36G were on the picket line at the J.M. Smucker Company’s Milk-Bone factory here Nov. 10 when Militant worker-correspondents arrived to bring solidarity.…


Conference to build solidarity with Cuba across Asia meets in Beijing

Vol. 88/No. 44 - November 25, 2024
Participants in 10th Asia-Pacific Regional Conference of Solidarity with Cuba in Beijing Oct. 29. In front from left, Ambassador Phouangkeo Langsy, vice president of Laos-Cuba Friendship Association; Fernando González, president of Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples; Bijay Kumar Padhihari, general secretary, Indian Society for Cultural Co-Operation and Friendship; H.E. Mrs. Nin Saphon, National Assembly of Takeo Province, Cambodia.

BEIJING — The 65-year-long punishing sanctions imposed by Washington against the Cuban people and their socialist revolution were condemned by participants at the 10th Asia-Pacific Regional Conference of Solidarity with Cuba, held here Oct. 29-30. The meeting took place as…



Moscow admits its strategy is to ‘destroy Ukraine’s people’

Vol. 88/No. 44 - November 25, 2024
Damage from bomb attack by Moscow on a supermarket in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Nov. 3, wounding 15. Moscow says its goal is to target, kill, demoralize working people and break their spirit.

The regime of Russian President Vladimir Putin is openly admitting to a deliberate course of systematic murder, targeting Ukrainian civilians with drones, bombs and missiles. Small drones now zero in and drop grenades. “The West is faced with a choice,”…



2024 US election reflects blows of capitalist crisis on working class

Workers need our own party to fight for power
Vol. 88/No. 43 - November 18, 2024

The 2024 U.S. presidential election and its outcome reflected the growing dissatisfaction of tens of millions of working people with the economic and social conditions and growing threats of war they and their families have faced for many years. These…


SWP campaign shows way forward for working people

Vol. 88/No. 43 - November 18, 2024
Rachele Fruit, Socialist Workers Party candidate for president, speaks at event in Pittsburgh Oct. 30, chaired by Candace Wagner, party’s candidate for U.S. Congress from Pennsylvania.

Fruit: ‘Today’s strikes key to building the labor movement PITTSBURGH — “The presidential campaign of the Socialist Workers Party is the only voice representing the interests of our class — and I mean the working class worldwide,” Rachele Fruit, Socialist…


Richter visits memorial to Black struggle in Memphis

Vol. 88/No. 43 - November 18, 2024
Kermit Moore, president of the Memphis NAACP, center, told Dennis Richter, SWP candidate for vice president, and campaign supporter Amy Husk about the I Am A Man Plaza created to introduce the fight by 1,300 Black sanitation workers in February 1968 to new generations.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — During a tour stop here to meet with unionists and others who had helped put the Socialist Workers Party on the Tennessee ballot Oct. 30, SWP vice presidential candidate Dennis Richter visited the I Am A Man…


Boeing workers vote up contract, wage gains, look to pension fight

Vol. 88/No. 43 - November 18, 2024
Boeing Machinists march after rally in Seattle Oct. 15. Workers won a 38% wage increase. “The strike gave Boeing a taste of what we’re capable of,” one worker told the Militant.

SEATTLE — After a seven-week strike, the Machinists at Boeing voted Nov. 4 to accept a four-year contract by 59%. It includes a 38% wage increase, a significant raise over the 25% first offered by the company in September. “Without…