SWP mayoral candidate: ‘Back letter carriers’ fight!’

Vol. 89/No. 8 - March 3, 2025
Paul Mailhot, left, SWP candidate for mayor of New York, discusses politics with postal worker Hector Narvaez at National Association of Letter Carriers rally in Harlem Feb. 16.

NEW YORK — Paul Mailhot, left, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of New York, joined some 60 postal workers and their supporters, in spite of heavy rain, in the Harlem neighborhood here Feb. 16 to rally in solidarity with…


Film shows historic fight against long-term solitary confinement

Vol. 89/No. 8 - March 3, 2025
Protest in Sacramento, California, July 30, 2013, backing prisoners’ hunger strike against indefinite solitary confinement. Four prisoners, Todd Ashker, Arturo Castellanos, George Franco and Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa, led what grew to some 30,000 prisoners to win a historic victory.

“The Strike,” a documentary, directed by JoeBill Muñoz and Lucas Guilkey. BY BETSEY STONE OAKLAND, Calif. — I was glad to see that “The Strike,” a film about the 2013 prison hunger strike in California was aired on the PBS…


British Columbia lab workers strike, rally against concessions

Vol. 89/No. 8 - March 3, 2025

BURNABY, British Columbia — More than 200 striking lab technicians, members of the British Columbia General Employees’ Union, and their supporters held a spirited rally Feb. 16 against concessions demanded by LifeLabs, the province’s main privately owned health laboratory and…



Bakkavor food workers step up strike action in England

Vol. 89/No. 8 - March 3, 2025

SPALDING, England — Hundreds of Unite union members at the Bakkavor food factory here have been on strike for nearly five months fighting for better pay. Since Feb. 11 they have reinforced their picket lines, determined to defend their union.…


Teamsters strike Hertz at airports in contract fight

Vol. 89/No. 8 - March 3, 2025
Members of Teamsters Local 745 picket Hertz car rental facility at Dallas Fort Worth airport Jan. 30. The unionists went on strike Jan. 18 for higher wages, better work schedules.

FORT WORTH, Texas — Some 45 members of Teamsters Local 745 set up strike picket lines at the Hertz car rental facility at the Dallas Fort Worth International Airport Jan. 18 after the company refused to offer a new contract…


Unions protest Amazon shutdown, layoffs in Quebec

Vol. 89/No. 8 - March 3, 2025

MONTREAL — Hundreds of members of the Confederation of National Trade Unions (CSN) and other unionists marched and rallied in the snow here Feb. 15 to protest Amazon’s move to shutter its seven Quebec distribution centers. Union flags identified teachers,…


Australia nurses, unions show solidarity against Jew-hatred

Vol. 89/No. 8 - March 3, 2025

SYDNEY — “I want to reassure Jewish people and Israelis that you can come to hospitals and we will provide care and you will be safe,” said Michael Whaites, acting general secretary of the New South Wales Nurses and Midwives’…



What does Trump’s war against ‘big government’ mean for working people?

Vol. 89/No. 8 - March 3, 2025

Since his inauguration Jan. 20, President Donald Trump has moved to implement his pledge to save money, eliminate waste and shift the political priorities of the vast federal bureaucracy. This encompasses the Treasury Department, “foreign aid,” “diversity” programs across all…