CHICAGO — A concerted effort is underway by supporters of Hamas to take advantage of widespread liberal media coverage of destruction in Gaza to get union officials to sign on to calls for Israel to agree to a cease-fire. This…
The U.S. Labor Department reported last month that union membership dropped last year to 10%. At the same time, more workers are using unions to resist the employers’ assaults. As the Socialist Workers Party 2022 resolution explains, “The low point…
The over 1,200 Jews slaughtered in the Oct. 7 Tehran-backed Hamas pogrom against Jews in Israel was the largest number of Jews killed in a single day since the Nazi Holocaust in the second imperialist world war. Some 3,000 more…
Following the successful completion of the eight-week fall campaign to sell 1,350 subscriptions to the Militant and the same number of books by Socialist Workers Party and other revolutionary leaders, the party and Communist Leagues in Australia, Canada and the…
Over 58,000 Kurdish teachers in Sulaimaniyah province have been on strike for back wages for more than two months in the longest teachers strike in the history of Kurdistan, putting nearly a million students out of school. More than 1,000…
Russian President Vladimir Putin is leading a drive to severely restrict women’s right to get an abortion in Russia, which in recent history has a relatively high abortion rate, an annual average of 46 per 1,000 women. At the same…
Since Hamas’ Oct. 7 massacre of Jews in Israel, members of the Socialist Workers Party and the Communist Leagues in Australia, Canada and the U.K. have been using the Militant to explain why workers and our unions have a stake…
The Socialist Workers Party’s annual Party-Building Fund has two weeks to go, with a goal of raising at least $140,000 for the SWP to get out its program and activities to working people around the world. The SWP and its…
The Party-Building Fund, part of the campaign to reach out with the Militant and books by Socialist Workers Party leaders and other revolutionaries, runs for eight weeks, from Sept. 23 through Nov. 21. It is at the heart of covering…
BRADLEY, Ill. — More than 700 members of International Chemical Workers Union Council Local 498C went on strike here against CSL Behring Sept. 27. The multinational company produces medication for those with immune deficiencies and bleeding disorders, such as hemophilia.…
