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Campaign to expand reach of ‘Militant,’ books, SWP fund Sept. 21 – November 19 (week five)

Norms of beauty and fashion are inseparable from the class struggle

Below are the first two chapters of the new 2024 edition of Cosmetics, Fashion, and the Exploitation of Women by Mary-Alice Waters, Evelyn Reed and Joseph Hansen, available in December. Waters is a longtime leader of the Socialist Workers Party and…

Fruit discusses road forward with workers in Charleroi

Hundreds of United flight attendants demand new contract

CHICAGO —Some 500 Association of Flight Attendants-CWA members at United Airlines and their supporters ringed the Willis Tower in Chicago’s downtown in a spirited picket line that stretched for four blocks Oct. 17. The skyscraper — formerly known as the…

Working people in Iran stand up to rulers’ warmongering

Despite attempts by the reactionary capitalist regime in Iran to whip up support among working people for its escalating confrontation with Israel and convince workers now is not the time for protests, growing numbers of workers are taking to the…

Unionists help prevent closure of New York state birth center

ALBANY, N.Y. — At the Capital District Area Labor Federation’s Annual Gala Oct. 11, Save the Burdett Birth Center Coalition received the federation’s Solidarity Award. Ashley Saupp, a leader of the coalition, said they could not have succeeded without the…

Canada port, rail workers back each others’ right to strike

MONTREAL — Port and railroad union members in Quebec and across Canada are fighting for better pay to cope with high prices and more livable schedules. On Oct. 7, Longshoremen’s Union Local 375, an affiliate of Canadian Union of Public…

Locked out for four months, Prelco unionists stand firm

MONTREAL — Over 100 locked-out Prelco workers and their supporters gathered in front of this industrial glass manufacturer here Oct. 18 for a solidarity concert and food. The 90 members of the Confederation of National Trade Unions (CSN) have been…

Columbus ‘deserves our respect, deserves to be remembered’

The attempts by liberals and the middle-class left to eradicate Columbus Day, a national holiday in October since 1937, honoring 15th-century explorer Christopher Columbus, along with statues and other tributes to Columbus, stepped up this year. These ahistorical political forces…

NY Proposition 1 is threat to rights, ploy to boost Democrats

NEW YORK — Proposition 1, often referred to by its Democratic Party boosters as the “Equal Rights Amendment” or the “Equal Protection of the Law Amendment,” will be on the ballot in New York Nov. 5. The measure is being…