Month: October 2026

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

Teamsters locked out at Phillips 66 refinery in NJ

LINDEN, N.J. — Some 385 oil refinery workers, members of Teamsters Local 877, were locked out by Phillips 66 bosses at its Bayway Refinery, the largest refinery on the East Coast, Oct. 19. Union members had voted down a contract…

Cuba takes fight against US blockade to the UN

Cuban people act to defend their socialist revolution

A striking report prepared by the government of Cuba detailing the U.S. government’s over six-decades-long record of attacks, sanctions and the recent oil blockade against its people will be presented and debated at a meeting of the United Nations General…

SWP is working-class alternative to bosses’ Democrats, Republicans

As the 2026 elections near, Socialist Workers Party candidates find increasing interest in their campaigns. They offer the only class-struggle program to protect workers from the attacks we’ve faced under both Democratic and Republican administrations and the further assaults the…

Hotel workers use rolling strikes in Chicago Loop

CHICAGO — Members of UNITE HERE Local 1 are continuing their fight for a contract at dozens of downtown hotels here. Workers at six of the largest hotels struck for five days Oct. 9-13, when the bosses had looked forward…

Join Socialist Workers Party in a special push up through election day

The Socialist Workers Party announced Oct. 19 that it is organizing an 11-day special effort, from Oct. 24 through election day Nov. 3, to introduce working people to the party’s candidates, and to the Militant and books by SWP leaders…

Lessons for today from past union struggles

Fighting to protect working people from the destructive effects of rising prices for food, housing, childcare and other essentials is a central responsibility in front of the unions. It goes side by side with fighting for jobs, safe working conditions…

Hamas in its own words: Jew-hatred, genocide and anti-communism

The following is an appendix to The Fight Against Jew-Hatred and Pogroms in the Imperialist Epoch: Stakes for the International Working Class. Copyright © 2024 by Pathfinder Press. Reprinted by permission. Whatever opinion an individual might have of Hamas and…

Revolutionary action by US workers isn’t just possible, it’s inevitable

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 October. The excerpt is from a 2018 talk Waters gave at an international conference in Havana discussing…

IBEW’s 8-day strike at Duquesne Light in Pittsburgh makes gains

PITTSBURGH — Some 1,000 International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 29 members returned to work at Duquesne Light Co. after an eight-day strike, the first walkout in over 50 years. Details of the contract have not come out publicly, but…