Eaton Aerospace workers keep up strike over pay, pensions

Vol. 88/No. 43 - November 18, 2024

JACKSON, Mich. — The 525 members of United Auto Workers Local 475 remain on the picket line at Eaton Aerospace here, after rejecting a second contract proposal more than a month into their strike. “The new pay offer was only…



W.Va. IAM members strike at Union Carbide, win contract

Vol. 88/No. 43 - November 18, 2024

SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. — After 10 days on strike at the Union Carbide plant here, members of International Association of Machinists Local 598 won an improved contract Oct. 31.  The 77 workers walked off the job Oct. 21 in a…


IBEW union workers win vote in Siemens Texas plant

Vol. 88/No. 43 - November 18, 2024

FORT WORTH, Texas — The Nov. 1 election victory for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers union at the Siemens plant here “was a landslide. An absolute landslide,” Joshua Worthey, business manager and financial secretary of IBEW Local 220, told…


Support ‘New York Times’ tech workers strike!

Vol. 88/No. 43 - November 18, 2024
Support ‘New York Times’ tech workers strike!

NEW YORK — Many of the over 600 tech workers on strike at the New York Times picketed outside the paper’s headquarters Nov. 5 to demand equitable pay increases with similar workers at other media outlets, as well as stronger…


US rulers turn FBI into anti-labor political police operation

Vol. 88/No. 43 - November 18, 2024
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, second from left, watches President Franklin Roosevelt sign 1934 bill expanding federal bureau’s powers. As U.S. rulers prepared to enter imperialist competition for markets and power in World War II, they used FBI to frame up union fighters and SWP.

50 Years of Covert Operations in the US: Washington’s Political Police and the American Working Class by Larry Seigle, Farrell Dobbs and Steve Clark is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for November. It traces the U.S. capitalist rulers’…


2024 US election reflects blows of capitalist crisis on working class

Workers need our own party to fight for power
Vol. 88/No. 43 - November 18, 2024

The 2024 U.S. presidential election and its outcome reflected the growing dissatisfaction of tens of millions of working people with the economic and social conditions and growing threats of war they and their families have faced for many years. These…


Lenin backed self-determination for nations oppressed by Moscow

Vol. 88/No. 43 - November 18, 2024
Red Army troops in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Dec. 8, 1917. Bolshevik Revolution put Russian workers and peasants in power, ended Moscow’s involvement in World War I, and overturned czar’s “prison house of nations,” offering self-determination to Ukraine and other nationalities.

Days before Russian President Vladimir Putin launched Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, he denied the country really exists as an independent nation, claiming it was “an inalienable part” of Russia. He blamed V.I. Lenin, the central leader of the…


SWP campaign shows way forward for working people

Vol. 88/No. 43 - November 18, 2024
Rachele Fruit, Socialist Workers Party candidate for president, speaks at event in Pittsburgh Oct. 30, chaired by Candace Wagner, party’s candidate for U.S. Congress from Pennsylvania.

Fruit: ‘Today’s strikes key to building the labor movement PITTSBURGH — “The presidential campaign of the Socialist Workers Party is the only voice representing the interests of our class — and I mean the working class worldwide,” Rachele Fruit, Socialist…


BCTGM members in Buffalo on strike at Milk-Bone

Vol. 88/No. 43 - November 18, 2024
BCTGM members in Buffalo on strike at Milk-Bone

Workers who make Milk-Bone dog treats went on strike in Buffalo, New York, Oct. 28. Milk-Bone is owned by the J.M. Smucker Company. The union says that 165 members of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 36G…