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

Solidarity with food workers strike in U.K. for union rights

WREXHAM, North Wales — Several hundred Unite union members at Oscar Mayer rallied here Nov. 8, one of almost daily actions marking their determination to win their nine-week strike.  The walkout began after the large majority East European workforce was…

IBEW union workers win vote in Siemens Texas plant

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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…

Richter visits memorial to Black struggle in Memphis

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — During a tour stop here to meet with unionists and others who had helped put the Socialist Workers Party on the Tennessee ballot Oct. 30, SWP vice presidential candidate Dennis Richter visited the I Am A Man…