Heaven Hill strikers stand up to Kentucky distillery bosses

Vol. 85/No. 36 - October 4, 2021

BARDSTOWN, Ky. — Four hundred United Food and Commercial Workers members went on strike Sept. 11 against Heaven Hill Brands bourbon distillery here after their five-year union contract expired. “The biggest issue is what the company calls ‘nontraditional’ scheduling,” Matt…


Kentucky teachers fight state moves against union, pensions

Vol. 83/No. 13 - April 1, 2019
Kentucky teachers rally March 7 to protest government moves to attack their union. Sickouts over seven different days have closed schools and succeeded in stalling threatened cutbacks.

FRANKFORT, Ky. — “It just feels like we can’t trust the system right now,” Sheri Tabor, a teacher in Oldham County, told the Louisville Courier-Journal March 7 as she rallied at the state Capitol here. She and hundreds of other…


SWP candidate campaigns for abortion, prisoners’ rights

Vol. 83/No. 6 - February 11, 2019

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Amy Husk, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Kentucky governor, and her supporters are campaigning to defend women’s right to choose abortion from threatened new attacks here. Leaders in the legislature are moving to pass a “fetal heartbeat”…


SWP takes working-class campaign all across Texas

SWP candidate wins support of ‘forgotten, disrespected’
Vol. 83/No. 4 - January 28, 2019
Alyson Kennedy, SWP candidate for Dallas mayor, and campaign supporter Samir Hazboun show on maps where they will campaign around the state as they also get on ballot in Dallas.

DALLAS — Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of Dallas Alyson Kennedy and her supporters are campaigning far and wide in Texas to defend the rights and living standards of working people. Her campaign is gaining the attention of those…