SWP campaigns expand reach of ‘Militant,’ books; fund tops 100%!

Vol. 88/No. 45 - December 2, 2024
After deadly explosion at Louisville factory, Hope Harp, right, a member of Millwrights Local 1076, told Socialist Workers Party member Amy Husk Nov. 17, “What happened in that plant should never have happened. Two workers are dead. This is everybody’s concern.”

Members of the Socialist Workers Party and of the Communist Leagues in Australia, Canada and the U.K. have gone over the top on their quotas in the fall party-building campaign! In the weeks after the U.S. election, party members continued…


‘The rent is just too damn high in New York City!’

Vol. 88/No. 45 - December 2, 2024

NEW YORK — Persistently high rents and home mortgage prices make it increasingly difficult for working people to live here. And workers face similar situations in growing numbers of cities and rural areas across the country. “Why ‘Affordable Housing’ in…


Back Canada Post workers strike over wages, working conditions

Vol. 88/No. 45 - December 2, 2024
CUPW Local 576 members picket at post office in North Bay, Ontario, Nov. 15, fighting for better wages, working conditions, end to plan to hire part-time weekend workers at lower pay.

MONTREAL — Some 55,000 members of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers went  on strike across Canada Nov. 15, fighting for better wages and livable work conditions. Negotiations have dragged on since Nov. 15, 2023. “Canada Post left us no…


Putin sends his troops to be slaughtered in Ukraine war

Vol. 88/No. 45 - December 2, 2024
Several thousand Russians rallied in Berlin, above, and other European cities Nov. 17 against Putin regime, war on Ukraine. Placard on right says, “Victory for Ukraine! Freedom for Russia!”

Russian President Vladimir Putin has stepped up the pace of his invading forces’ drive to seize more territory in the Donetsk region of Ukraine through “meat wave” frontal assaults. The Ukrainian defenders, stretched and outgunned but motivated and determined to…


Kursk villagers in Russia demand end to ‘damned war’

Vol. 88/No. 45 - December 2, 2024
Kursk villagers in Russia demand end to ‘damned war’

“End this damned war, which has taken so many innocent lives,” an elderly man says in an online video clip, blaming Russian President Vladimir Putin for the situation he and those standing with him find themselves in. He stands in…


Cuban deputy foreign minister says, ‘End US embargo!’

Vol. 88/No. 45 - December 2, 2024

NEWARK, N.J. — Carlos Fernández de Cossío, Cuba’s deputy minister of foreign affairs, spoke to a meeting of 35 at Rutgers Law School here Nov. 14. Law professor Charles Auffant, who has organized trips to study Cuba’s legal system for…


Nurses strike, rally in Sydney over wages, work conditions

Vol. 88/No. 45 - December 2, 2024
Thousands of nurses and midwives march in Sydney and rally at the New South Wales state Parliament there as part of a 24-hour strike demanding an immediate 15% pay raise.

SYDNEY — Up to 10,000 nurses and midwives marched through the central city and rallied outside state Parliament here Nov. 13, chanting, “We won’t take it anymore, we want more in ’24” and “15% now!” The protest was both angry…


Striking UK food workers reject offer, win solidarity

Vol. 88/No. 45 - December 2, 2024

SPALDING, England — Now into the eighth week of their strike, hundreds of Unite union members at the Bakkavor food factory here voted by 81% to reject the bosses’ latest pay offer. The workers walked out Sept. 27 after rejecting…


Kentucky factory explosion kills two workers

Vol. 88/No. 45 - December 2, 2024

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Two workers were killed and at least 11 injured when the Givaudan Sense Colour plant here exploded around 3 p.m. on Nov. 12. Part of the plant collapsed and the explosion sent shrapnel flying into the surrounding…