Year: 2024

Campaign to expand reach of ‘Militant,’ books, SWP fund  chart

Boeing workers strike is solid as bosses try to go around union

SEATTLE — Bosses at Boeing took what they called their “best and final” offer directly to 33,000 striking workers in an attempt to go around their union, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers District Lodge 751 and District W24.…

End US rulers’ economic war against Cuba!

AUCKLAND, New Zealand — In campaigning against the over 60-year U.S. economic war against Cuba, “it’s important to demand Cuba’s removal from Washington’s State Sponsors of Terrorism list,” Luis Ernesto Morejón Rodríguez, Cuba’s ambassador to New Zealand, told a public…

As battles with Hezbollah heat up: Defend Israel as a refuge for Jews!

Having made significant progress in the war to dismantle Hamas in Gaza, Israeli forces — no longer willing to accept daily missile assaults on northern Israel — are now focusing on Lebanon-based Hezbollah. And they’re dealing devastating blows to the…

Gov’t claims inflation is ‘solved,’ ‘soft landing’ assured. It isn’t.

Front-page articles in the capitalist press have hailed the Federal Reserve’s recent interest-rate cut as a milestone in the recovery of the U.S. economy. “Pop the Champagne for the Fed Rate Cut and a Soft Landing Ahead” the U.S. News…

Join fight against Florida prison ban on the ‘Militant’!

Supporters of the rights of workers behind bars and freedom of speech and the press have been fighting to overturn the ban on Militant issue no. 17 by Jackson Correctional Institution prison authorities in Malone, Florida, for five months. More…

Dockworkers prepare for strike as October 1 contract deadline looms

The Oct. 1 strike deadline for 45,000 dockworkers on the East and Gulf coasts is rapidly approaching, with members of the International Longshoremen’s Association at three dozen ports from Texas to Maine organizing to walk out if no new contract…

‘All out in support of the Boeing workers strike!’

Fruit: ‘The working class needs to take power’ CINCINNATI — “This is the first time in my life I really feel like something I do can make a difference and change things,” Eric Wood, a cook at a restaurant here,…

Pittsburgh area nurses win big, vow to continue the fight

PITTSBURGH — “We have accomplished so much as a union at West Penn, Allegheny General, and Allegheny Valley,” Katie Kiesel, a labor and delivery nurse at West Penn Hospital and a member of SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania, told the Militant in…

Bay Area Sheetrock workers strike for pay, family time

ANTIOCH, Calif. — More than 100 workers went on strike at the Georgia-Pacific Sheetrock plant here Sept. 16 after company bosses refused to offer more than a 3% wage increase. “The big issue is money,” said Jose Rivera, who has…