Year: 2025

Campaign to expand reach of ‘Militant,’ books, SWP fund (week 3)

Defeat of Hamas crucial to prevent a new Holocaust

Trump’s ‘peace’ plan aims to push US imperialist interests

Two years after the worst pogrom against Jews since the Nazi Holocaust during World War II, the defeat of Hamas remains key to preventing it from carrying out a new Holocaust today. Since President Donald Trump announced his 20-point “peace”…

Striking British Columbia public service workers win support

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Public service workers here represented by the B.C. General Employees’ Union are expanding their strike over wages and conditions, and winning widespread labor support. Over 5,000 strikers and their supporters marched and rallied in Victoria Oct. 6…

Fight against Jew-hatred key to line of march of working class

Combating Jew-hatred and defending the right of Israel to exist as a refuge for Jews is a dividing line among all those who claim to speak for the working class. That remains true today, as Washington tries to shut down…

Philadelphia hotel workers strike in Center City, win support

PHILADELPHIA — UNITE HERE Local 274 members at two union-organized Philadelphia hotels went on strike Oct. 5. There are 150 union workers at the Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown, and 40 at Hampton Inn Center City. This is the first strike at…

Ottawa taxi drivers strike against fee hikes that cut wages

OTTAWA, Ontario — Some 500 drivers for the Blue Line Taxi company, members of Unifor Local 1688, have been on strike here since Sept. 19. They voted to walk out by 94%. Many striking drivers joined an Oct. 1 solidarity…

Maryland rally: ‘Release Kilmar Abrego García’

GREENBELT, Md. — Supporters of Kilmar Abrego García rallied outside the Maryland federal courthouse here Oct. 6, demanding that the government drop its vindictive deportation case against him and that he be released from jail. He wasn’t allowed to attend…

SWP presents a road forward as capitalist crisis, war threat grow

Millions of working people face economic uncertainty, social crises and growing threats of new wars today. Members of the Socialist Workers Party are campaigning to explain these are the result of the workings of the capitalist system and its dog-eat-dog…

10,000 college support workers in Ontario strike over layoffs

BROCKVILLE, Ontario — On Sept. 11 some 10,000 full-time support staff at Ontario’s 24 colleges, members of the Ontario Public Sector Employees Union, went on strike for job security, better wages and benefits. They include disability support staff, library technicians,…

Striking UK refuse workers: ‘With union backing we can win’

BIRMINGHAM, England — “We’re dug in for however long it takes,” striking refuse worker Ali Chidodo said. “We’ve come too far. With union backing we can win.” The workers have been on strike for over six months. Chidodo was among…