SAN JOSE, Calif. — Over 1,500 bus drivers, light-rail operators, mechanics and office workers, members of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 265, went on strike against the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority here March 10. The system transports 100,000 people a…
There is a revolutionary working-class voice in the 2025 elections. The Socialist Workers Party is launching a spring campaign to introduce its national slate of 2025 candidates, expand the reach of the Militant and books by SWP leaders and other…
March 20, 2000 PITTSBURGH — The first Steelworkers union International Women’s Conference here was marked by women who are part of the struggles of working people across North America. Total participation was nearly 800. “USWA Women in Action — Solidarity…
Soaring prices for some groceries and persistently high prices for everything at the store continue to squeeze the conditions of life for working people, every time they have to stop by the supermarket to get goods. While monthly price rises…
ROMEOVILLE, Ill. — “10 Roads is making a lot of money and not sharing it. They should call it ‘10 Cash Registers.’ That’s why we’re camped out here,” Bert Mitchell, a member of Teamsters Local 727, told the Militant on…
Both Hamas and Tehran are using the unstable ceasefire in Gaza to try to recover from the blows Israel has dealt them and to advance their long-term aim of destroying Israel and all the Jews there. Some 17 months after…
PALMETTO, Ga. — A determined group of six Teamsters, members of Local 728, have been staffing the picket line at the 10 Roads Express satellite yard here every day since Feb. 27 when they joined 500 others in eight states…
EDMONTON, Alberta — Over 6,600 school workers, members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, are on strike across Alberta for higher wages. The workers include educational assistants, cafeteria workers, librarians, administrative office workers and custodians. “Many of us have…
The Spanish edition of Capitalism’s World Disorder: Working-Class Politics at the Millennium by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for March. The book explains the coming apart of the…
Germany’s imperialist rulers are making a sharp shift to boost preparations for war — and to kick-start their floundering economy — with a historic debt deal. Their goal was captured in a Financial Times headline, “From a welfare state to…
