SWP: Speak out against bosses, gov’t attacks, abuse

Vol. 82/No. 33 - September 3, 2018
Campaigning door to door on Chicago's South Side Aug. 2, Laura Anderson, right, SWP candidate for Illinois lieutenant governor, met Alice Goodrun, a retired teacher, who got Militant subscription and Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers Power.

Members and supporters of the Socialist Workers Party in the U.S. and sister Communist Leagues in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the U.K. are stepping up discussions with workers on doorsteps and in living rooms in cities, towns and rural…


SWP: Fight for independent working-class political action

Vol. 82/No. 32 - August 27, 2018

As historic changes are taking place in the world — in Korea, the Middle East, Europe and elsewhere — members and supporters of the Socialist Workers Party are taking their class-struggle program broadly to working people. They knock on workers’…


SWP takes campaigns to workers’ doorsteps

Socialist Workers Party says workers need to take power
Vol. 82/No. 31 - August 20, 2018
SWP candidate for US Senate Alyson Kennedy, right, discusses fight against police brutality, for amnesty for workers without papers with Victoria Dominguez in Waxahachie, Texas, July 30.

“I know all about Santos Rodriguez! I grew up in southwest Dallas,” Victoria Dominguez told Alyson Kennedy, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Senate from Texas, when she knocked on her door July 30. “You need to meet my mother.…


SWP takes party, program to workers on doorsteps

Vol. 82/No. 30 - August 13, 2018

As they campaign on workers’ doorsteps in big and small cities and rural areas across the country, Socialist Workers Party candidates and their supporters discuss why a class-struggle road forward is necessary in face of the attacks today from the…


Protests oppose Russian rulers’ moves to raise age for pensions

Vol. 82/No. 29 - August 6, 2018
“We oppose raising the retirement age,” say protest signs in Omsk, Russia. Government proposes to raise age for women from 55 to 63, reflected in signs, and from 60 to 65 for men.

When the Russian government announced plans to raise the retirement age for workers on the eve of the World Cup, it hoped this would be drowned out by the football euphoria. But the proposal provoked widespread anger and protests across…


Ukraine miners’ strikes, protests win back wages

Vol. 82/No. 28 - July 30, 2018

For the past year and a half miners in Ukraine’s state-owned coal industry have carried out strikes with round-the-clock picketing, and blocking entrances to mine bosses’ offices and roads leading toward the mines. They have rallied outside parliament and the…


Unions rally in fight for gov’t-funded pensions

All workers need pensions at union-scale pay
Vol. 82/No. 27 - July 23, 2018
United Mine Workers rally, Lexington, Kentucky, June 2016, protests cuts to pensions, health care.

Car caravans and busloads of active and retired union members from across the Midwest and beyond are gathering in their thousands at the Ohio state Capitol in Columbus July 12. They’re demanding that the government fund the pensions for hundreds…


Join July 12th protest against pension cuts!

Join Mine Workers, Teamsters in Columbus
Vol. 82/No. 26 - July 16, 2018
Mine Workers union rally Oct. 14, 2015, Brookwood, Alabama, protests attacks on pensions, health care.

On July 12 thousands of union coal miners, teamsters, bakery workers, musicians and other workers from across the Midwest and beyond will rally in Columbus, Ohio, demanding the government take steps to maintain pensions of tens of thousands of retired…


Coal miners in Ukraine mobilize to be paid back wages

Vol. 82/No. 26 - July 16, 2018

On July 2 miners on first shift at underground mine No. 10 Novovolynska in the Volyn region of Ukraine refused to leave the mine at the end of the shift, and later the second shift joined them. They haven’t been…


‘Militant’ challenges ongoing prison censorship in Florida

Vol. 82/No. 26 - July 16, 2018

Prison authorities in Florida keep trying to stop inmates there from reading the Militant, “forgetting” to inform the paper, effectively denying it the right to challenge the censorship in defiance of their own rules. In the latest of a series…