Volkswagen workers vote overwhelmingly for UAW

Vol. 88/No. 18 - May 6, 2024
Autoworkers at Volkswagen in Chattanooga, Tennessee, celebrate announcement of 73% vote for UAW April 19. Victory gives impetus to workers fighting for union recognition elsewhere.

In an important victory for unions across the U.S., workers at the Chattanooga, Tennessee, Volkswagen plant voted by 73% to be represented by the United Auto Workers, giving impetus to workers fighting for union recognition elsewhere. It’s the first assembly…


SWP campaigners win new support

Vol. 88/No. 18 - May 6, 2024
When Candace Wagner, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Congress, knocked on his door in Butler, Pennsylvania, UAW member Richard LeGrande said even with a union job it’s hard to afford housing. LeGrande got a Militant subscription, three books by SWP leaders.

Campaigners for Rachele Fruit, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for president, are introducing the party’s working-class program and activity widely among working people and making good use of the just-published title The Fight Against Jew-Hatred and Pogroms in the Imperialist…


SWP takes Fruit campaign to workers across the US

Vol. 88/No. 14 - April 8, 2024

Supporters of Rachele Fruit, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. president, are taking the party’s campaign to workers on their doorsteps, at union rallies and actions called to fight Jew-hatred. The campaign gets a hearing as working people face economic…


Patients die as ‘private equity’ hospital bosses rake in profits

Vol. 88/No. 11 - March 18, 2024
Sungida Rashid gave birth at Boston’s St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center, above, last October, but began bleeding. Machine that could have saved her had been repossessed as bosses hadn’t paid for it. The center is run by Steward, largest private, for-profit hospital system in U.S.

The joy felt by Sungida Rashid and her husband, Nabil Haque, a couple who had just become new parents, was short-lived. Within hours of giving birth to a daughter at Boston’s St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center last October, Rashid began bleeding.…


Socialist Workers Party joins actions demanding Moscow out of Ukraine!

Vol. 88/No. 10 - March 11, 2024
Socialist Workers Party vice presidential candidate Margaret Trowe joined car caravan in San Francisco Feb. 24 backing Ukraine’s independence fight against Moscow’s invasion. Inset, Trowe addresses the rally.

Campaign supporters of the Socialist Workers Party and the Communist Leagues in Canada, Australia and the U.K. built and joined the tens of thousands worldwide who marched and rallied to protest Moscow’s war on Ukraine Feb. 24, marking the second…


Flight attendants rally in Dallas for higher wages, full pay

Vol. 88/No. 10 - March 11, 2024

Hundreds of flight attendants and supporters picketed the American Airlines terminal at the Dallas-Fort Worth airport Feb. 13 in a fight for a new contract with higher wages, full pay for time on the job and better working conditions. The…



Moscow bars candidate opposing Putin, Ukraine war

Vol. 88/No. 8 - February 26, 2024

In the largest anti-war manifestation since Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine almost two years ago, some 200,000 people waited in lines stretching for city blocks all across the country in January to sign petitions to put Boris Nadezhdin on…



Newton teachers make gains in spirited strike, contract battle

Vol. 88/No. 7 - February 19, 2024

Striking teachers and aides in Newton, Massachusetts, returned to their classrooms Feb. 5 after winning a new contract with solid gains in wages and benefits. Their union, the Newton Teachers Association, didn’t get everything it wanted, but by going on…