The revolutionary potential of the working class in the US

Vol. 88/No. 19 - May 13, 2024
Kentucky teachers walk out in protest in April 2018 inspired by victory two months earlier in West Virginia by teachers, bus drivers, cafeteria workers, who won raises for all state employees. Actions pointed to social movement needed to fight for interests of all working people.

The French edition of In Defense of the US Working Class by Mary-Alice Waters is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for May. It features the talk Waters gave at an April 24-26, 2018, international conference in Havana organized…


Endorse Rachele Fruit for president!

SWP campaign stands for independent working-class political action
Vol. 88/No. 19 - May 13, 2024

We urge our readers to endorse Rachele Fruit, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. president. There is no other choice you can make that will advance toward a break with the capitalist parties and a step toward independent working-class…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 88/No. 19 - May 13, 2024

May 17, 1999 SEATTLE — Luis Morejón and Itamys García, two Cuban youth leaders, came to Seattle as part of their six-week U.S. speaking tour, and some 360 people in several meetings heard them speak about the Cuban revolution today.…


Philadelphia Aramark workers strike for better wages, benefits

Vol. 88/No. 19 - May 13, 2024

PHILADELPHIA — “We want to be treated fairly and with respect,” Lori Gibson, one of hundreds of UNITE HERE Local 274 members on the picket line here on strike against Aramark April 25, told the Militant. They were picketing at…


UAW members win raises, COLA, end tiers at Daimler

Vol. 88/No. 19 - May 13, 2024

BY DIANE SHUR, JANE ROLAND AND SUE SKINNER STATESVILLE, N.C. — A tentative contract agreement was announced between Daimler Truck and the United Auto Workers April 26, an hour before the strike deadline. According to UAW officials the four-year agreement…




Daimler workers prepare for strike as contract deadline nears

Vol. 88/No. 18 - May 6, 2024
United Auto Workers members join strike preparation rally April 10 outside Daimler trucking warehouse in Buford, Georgia. Workers are fighting for a wage raise, cost-of-living protection.

BUFORD, Ga. — Chanting “No bucks, no trucks!” and “We are the union — mighty, mighty union!” some 80 members of the United Auto Workers marched here April 20 in a practice picket in front of the Daimler Trucks parts…


800 Toronto airport Teamsters strike for higher pay, safety

Vol. 88/No. 18 - May 6, 2024

MISSISSAUGA, Ontario— “Share the news. It must get around to everybody,” striker Maged Awad told the Militant as we walked the picket line at Toronto Pearson International Airport here April 20. Some 800 Teamsters Local 647 members struck airline meal…


May Day actions to defend immigrants, workers’ rights

Vol. 88/No. 18 - May 6, 2024

Events to celebrate May 1 — International Workers Day — are being held around the country, from strikes by e-hail drivers in several cities, to actions to win support for union contract fights and protests for the rights of immigrant…