SYDNEY — “What’s outrageous? Airport wages!” chanted 20 plane refuelers as they walked off the job in a four-hour strike at Ampol Aviation at the airport here Aug. 23. Night and afternoon shift workers also stopped work. The workers “have…
SYDNEY — Striking workers on the picket line at Etex in Matraville in eastern Sydney told the Militant Aug. 30 they had voted overwhelmingly to reject the company’s new contract offer. The workers, members of the Construction, Forestry and Maritime…
MONTREAL — Almost 10,000 rail engineers, conductors and dispatchers, members of the Teamsters union, walked off the job at 12:01 a.m. Aug. 22 after Canadian National and Canadian Pacific Kansas City railroads, Canada’s two cross-country rail lines, refused to sign…
Fruit in UK: ‘Workers need to take political power’ MANCHESTER, England — “Workers need to rely on ourselves if we’re to fundamentally change the conditions we face,” Rachele Fruit, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. president, told participants at…
SYDNEY — The Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. vice president, Dennis Richter, campaigned here for several days in mid-August along with Robert Aiken, the Communist League candidate for mayor of Liverpool. CL campaigners took advantage of building for the…
The Israeli government’s decision to continue its attack on Hamas in Gaza — despite constant pressure from the U.S. government to end the war — has been decisive in dealing big blows to the Jew-hating thug outfit. Israel’s goal is…
Ukrainian forces are still advancing more than two weeks after entering Russia’s western Kursk region Aug. 6. Kyiv is seeking ways to push back against Russian President Vladimir Putin’s efforts to use Moscow’s preponderant numbers and resources to advance his…
Democrats and the liberal media are claiming that inflation has been conquered, but workers keep facing ever-higher prices on many essential items. And now working people also face a rise in layoffs. While the monthly pace of price increases has…
The Florida Department of Corrections Literature Review Committee has upheld the ban on Militant issue no. 17 that was put in place by the Jackson Correctional Institution in Malone nearly four months ago. More letters are needed in the fight…
“Every class struggle is a political struggle.” With that statement Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, opened his report to an International Socialist Educational Conference in Oberlin, Ohio. “That’s a reality more and more workers in the…
