UNITE HERE fights for new contract at Sky Chefs

Vol. 89/No. 16 - April 28, 2025
UNITE HERE fights for new contract at Sky Chefs

LOS ANGELES — UNITE HERE Local 11 organized a daylong action April 15 to demand a contract with higher wages and affordable health benefits for LSG Sky Chefs workers in front of the company’s facility at Los Angeles International Airport.…


SWP: ‘Capitalism’s Long Hot Winter Has Begun’

Vol. 89/No. 16 - April 28, 2025

Below are excerpts from “Capitalism’s long hot winter has begun,” the title article in New International no. 12. It addresses two questions, the reasons behind the deepening crisis of the U.S.-led imperialist world “order” today and the need to build…


‘Jews and Kurds are united in a common struggle’

Vol. 89/No. 16 - April 28, 2025

LONDON — A panel discussion “Reconnecting with Roots: History and Culture of Kurdistan’s Jews and their Impact on Israeli-Kurdish Relations,” was held in the House of Commons March 19, organized by the Jewish-Kurdish Network and the Centre for Kurdish Progress.…


Dominican nightclub collapse shows bosses’ disdain for safety

Vol. 89/No. 16 - April 28, 2025
Rescue workers search for survivors after nightclub roof collapsed in Dominican Republic April 8. Government allowed “building practices that lead to these disasters,” said Jesús Núñez.

“The capitalist owners of that nightclub are scumbags who only care about their self-interests,” said Jesús Núñez, squarely putting responsibility for the roof collapse at a popular nightclub in the Dominican Republic where it belongs. Núñez is national coordinator of…


Defend immigrants rights! Back fight to unite the working class

Vol. 89/No. 16 - April 28, 2025
Eric Simpson, second from left, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of Oakland, joined hundreds of trade unionists April 12 at Cesar Chavez labor parade and festival there.

‘We need to build a party to take political power’ SEATTLE — Eric Simpson, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of Oakland, and SWP campaign supporters joined with hundreds of trade unionists April 12 at a labor parade and festival…


Back Ukraine sovereignty! US out of Europe!

Vol. 89/No. 16 - April 28, 2025

With no letup in Moscow’s murderous bombardment targeting civilians in Ukraine, working people everywhere should join in backing the Ukrainian people’s courageous fight to defend the country’s sovereignty. Moscow out now! Over three years ago Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime…


10 days: 1,278 people sign to put SWP on NJ ballot

Vol. 89/No. 16 - April 28, 2025
After discussion with Craig Honts, left, SWP candidate for N.J. lieutenant governor, Barry Barrett signed SWP petition, got Militant sub, Are They Rich Because They’re Smart? April 10.

UNION CITY, N.J. — Ten days into the fight to win ballot status for the Socialist Workers Party candidates in New Jersey — Joanne Kuniansky for governor and Craig Honts for lieutenant governor — campaigners have signed up 1,278 people…


Opposition grows to death penalty in Iran

Vol. 89/No. 16 - April 28, 2025
Protest against death penalty at Lakan prison in Iran March 18.

Weekly hunger strikes by political prisoners in Iran, “No to execution Tuesdays,” began 64 weeks ago and had spread to at least 38 prisons by April 8. The reactionary bourgeois-clerical regime executed at least 975 prisoners in 2024, the highest…


Washington-Beijing conflict sharpens with new tariff clash

Vol. 89/No. 16 - April 28, 2025
Joint war games by U.S., Japanese, Australian military forces in the Philippine Sea in 2020. U.S. rulers look to defend their military, financial supremacy from expanding reach of Beijing.

The battle over tariffs unfolding between Washington and Beijing, and worldwide, is driven by the determination of the capitalist rulers in every country to defend their own national interests against all others, as the crisis of their dog-eat-dog system deepens.…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 89/No. 16 - April 28, 2025

April 24, 2000 DENNILTON, South Africa — “Our mission here is not just to help people — it is political. Cuba is making a contribution. We are representatives of the continuity of Cubans who fought and who are still fighting…