MONTREAL — On Jan. 28 rail bosses at Canadian National Railway and union officials of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, which represents the signal and communications workers, announced that a tentative four-year agreement had been reached, the same day…
The Socialist Workers Party and Communist League in Canada are launching 2025 election campaigns with candidates presenting a working-class program to fight against the effects on us of the unfolding political and economic crisis of the capitalist system. The candidates…
“The Socialist Workers Party campaign speaks in the interests of working people, as we face unemployment, high prices, a deep social crisis and the threat of more wars,” Eric Simpson, the party’s candidate for mayor of Oakland, California, told supporters…
As the crisis of the U.S. rulers’ capitalist system deepens, they are stepping up efforts to place the burden on the backs of working people. One punishing expression of this is the growing shortage of housing working-class families, the young…
The Militant is appealing the banning of its Nov. 11, 2024, issue of the paper by authorities at the Lower Buckeye Jail in Phoenix. The paper is urging supporters of civil liberties and prisoners’ rights to join this fight and…
The inauguration of President Donald Trump marks a change from one of the two major parties that serve the U.S. capitalist class to the other. It does nothing to change the class-against-class reality workers face every day. Trump won support…
MONTREAL — “At the very moment [Canada] needs stable and credible leadership” — as a trade conflict with Washington is imminent — “it is instead wracked by the prolonged death throes of a minority government,” complained the editors of the…
Statement by Laura Garza, organizer of the Los Angeles Socialist Workers Party, Jan. 20. The dog-eat-dog capitalist system is incapable of addressing the crisis now facing working people, small-business owners and thousands of others in the aftermath of the deadly…
The bourgeois press, particularly the liberal-run media, has gone to great lengths to portray recently deceased Democratic Party politician and former President James Earl Carter Jr. as a “humanitarian” and “peacemaker.” Carter was the 39th president, the executive officer for…
LONG SUTTON, England — Some 300 members of Unite, the union at the Princes food company here, walked out Jan. 7. Princes produces canned fish, meat, vegetables, soft drinks and pickles. Their action was part of a series of strikes,…
