Flight attendants rally in Dallas for higher wages, full pay

Vol. 88/No. 10 - March 11, 2024

Hundreds of flight attendants and supporters picketed the American Airlines terminal at the Dallas-Fort Worth airport Feb. 13 in a fight for a new contract with higher wages, full pay for time on the job and better working conditions. The…


SWP campaigns on the docks in Miami

Vol. 88/No. 10 - March 11, 2024

MIAMI — Rachele Fruit, Socialist Workers Party candidate for president, spoke to dockworkers, members of International Longshoremen’s Association Local 1416, here outside their union hall Feb. 25. The sign on her campaign table read, “Safety on the job and the…


Opponents of Jew-hatred condemn harassment of New York mosque

Vol. 88/No. 10 - March 11, 2024

Two major organizations that fight antisemitism — the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County and the Anti-Defamation League — condemned the Feb. 23 harassment of worshippers and staff at the Islamic Center of Melville. Lawyer Jordan Endler reportedly…


Atlanta bakery stands up to Jew-hatred

Vol. 88/No. 10 - March 11, 2024

ATLANTA — “We came today to extend our solidarity to you and your family in standing up against the boycott of your store,” Lisa Potash, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Congress in the 5th District, told Sagi Shablis during a…


Join, build March 3 San Francisco march against Jew-hatred!

Vol. 88/No. 10 - March 11, 2024

OAKLAND, Calif — The Socialist Workers Party and its candidates in the 2024 elections are urging the largest possible turnout for the March 3 protest against antisemitism in San Francisco, starting at 1:30 p.m. at Embarcadero Plaza. Since Oct. 7,…


Ukraine unions call for solidarity against Moscow invasion

Vol. 88/No. 10 - March 11, 2024
Workers from the Independent Trade Union of Miners of Ukraine deliver wood, other supplies to soldiers on the frontline in war to defeat Moscow’s invasion, defend Ukraine independence.

“The priority now is defending Ukraine,” Mykhailo Volynets, chairperson of the Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine (KVPU) and of the Independent Trade Union of Miners of Ukraine, told the Militant in a phone interview Feb. 14. The vast…


Join the fight against Jew-hatred!

Vol. 88/No. 10 - March 11, 2024

Statement by Lea Sherman, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Congress from New Jersey, Feb. 28. Jew-hatred is built into capitalist rule, spreading as this cut-throat social system breeds deepening crises and more wars. The Socialist Workers Party urges workers…


25, 50, and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 88/No. 10 - March 11, 2024

March 15, 1999 WASHINGTON, D.C. — With every seat taken, and the aisles filled to capacity, some 450 farmers and their supporters packed the federal courthouse here for a day-long hearing on a proposed settlement in a class-action discrimination lawsuit…


Teamsters’ newspaper helped win 1934 Minneapolis strikes

Vol. 88/No. 10 - March 11, 2024
July 26 Organizer, daily broadsheet of Teamsters Local 574’s 1934 strike battles in Minneapolis. Crucial to winning victory, union prepared strikers for every move by bosses, the government.

The French edition of The History of American Trotskyism, 1928-1938: Report of a Participant by James P. Cannon is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for February. Cannon, a founding leader of the Socialist Workers Party, explains in the…


SWP candidates in NJ speak out against Jew-hatred

Vol. 88/No. 9 - March 4, 2024

WAYNE, N.J. — A debate continued at the Feb. 7 Wayne City Council meeting here over a resolution the council had adopted Dec. 20 defending Israel’s war against Hamas, calling for the release of all the hostages held by Hamas…