Working people need our own party, a party of labor

Vol. 88/No. 39 - October 21, 2024
Dennis Richter, SWP candidate for vice president, right, joins in solidarity with Georgia Pacific strikers, members of ILWU Local 6, Oct. 7. From left: Raymond Domingue, Steve Moffett, Jimmie Arnold III and Jose Rivera. “We need our own party, a party of labor,” said Richter.

ANTIOCH, Calif. — “I’ll be getting out the word about your fight,” Socialist Workers Party vice presidential candidate Dennis Richter told Sheetrock workers on strike against Georgia Pacific here when he joined their picket line Oct. 7. The workers, members…


Boeing strikers solid in fight to improve wages, work conditions

Vol. 88/No. 39 - October 21, 2024
“Going on strike is a sacrifice, but it’s worth it,” one Machinist told the Militant. Strikers greet other union members on picket line near Boeing factory in Everett, Washington, Sept. 15.

SEATTLE — Now in the fourth week of their strike against Boeing, one of the two major producers of commercial airplanes worldwide, picket lines by members of International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers District Lodge 751 remain up at…



Working people unite to take on social disaster from hurricane

Vol. 88/No. 39 - October 21, 2024
In Swannanoa, North Carolina, neighbors come together to set up distribution center after Hurricane Helene. The First Baptist Church also handled aid. “It’s tough to see people you know personally who have lost their homes,” Melody Dowdy, the pastor’s wife, said.

Under capitalism, major storms like Hurricane Helene become social catastrophes. Over 225 people have been killed across six states, with the biggest toll in western North Carolina. And it’s unclear how many are still missing in isolated communities there. The…



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…


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…


As vote nears, Democrats push attacks on constitutional rights

Vol. 88/No. 39 - October 21, 2024
Daniel Shays’ rebels are fired on by Massachusetts militiamen in 1787. Struggles by farmers and artisans coming out of First American Revolution and by working people of all skin colors during Civil War, Reconstruction, won constitutional protections that workers need today.

The fight for the White House between the bosses’ two major parties — the Democrats and Republicans — has entered its final month, with Kamala Harris, the liberal media and the Joseph Biden Justice Department escalating their frenetic claims that…


‘Build solidarity with Boeing, port strikers!’

‘Workers need to build a party of labor to fight for political power!’
Vol. 88/No. 38 - October 14, 2024
Rachele Fruit, SWP candidate for president, left, joins picket by postal workers in Eagan, Minnesota, part of nationwide day of protests by American Postal Workers Union Oct. 1.

Fruit: ‘Two strikes on the front line of class struggle’ UNION CITY, N.J. — “Fuel prices are so high that truckers see little income and farmers get even less from what they produce,” Paul de Leon, a truck driver from…


Richter: ‘Workers, farmers have common interests’

Vol. 88/No. 38 - October 14, 2024
Dennis Richter, SWP candidate for vice president, speaks at union barbecue of striking Prelco glassworkers, members of Confederation of National Trade Unions, in Montreal, Sept. 27.

MONTREAL — “I have a straightforward, realistic program — workers in our millions should take power into our hands,” Dennis Richter, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for vice president, told 32 people at a Militant Labor Forum here Sept. 28.…