Endorse, build the SWP’s 2024 campaign!

Vol. 88/No. 40 - October 28, 2024

For the growing number of workers repelled by the Democratic and Republican parties and seeking ways to strengthen working-class interests and our unions, there is an alternative in 2024. The Socialist Workers Party is running Rachele Fruit for president, Dennis…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 88/No. 40 - October 28, 2024

November 1, 1999 WASHINGTON, D.C. — “No deportations”; “Amnesty now”; “No more arrests on the job.” These were among the most common signs as 5,000 people marched through the capital to demand full rights for undocumented workers and to oppose…



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…


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…


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…


‘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…


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…