UK food workers strike against wage cuts, for union rights

Vol. 88/No. 42 - November 11, 2024
Members of Unite union on strike against Oscar Mayer rally in Wrexham, Wales, Oct. 18 against company demands for wage cuts that include reducing breaks and not paying for them.

WREXHAM, Wales — “We are here, we are stronger, and we will win this fight. It’s not impossible!” Joanna Kowalska, a striking Unite union member, told a rally of hundreds of food production workers here Oct. 18. Six hundred workers…


Join us in expanding the reach of SWP, ‘Militant’

Vol. 88/No. 42 - November 11, 2024
Rachele Fruit, right, SWP candidate for president, talks with Isabel Beteta at BeLoved Asheville aid center Oct. 18. She is one of hundreds of volunteers who came to aid hurricane victims in North Carolina.

Vote for Rachele Fruit and Dennis Richter, the Socialist Workers Party candidates for president and vice president, and the party’s candidates for Congress and Senate around the country Nov. 5! And join party members in the days and weeks ahead…


Montreal port workers plan strike at Termont Terminals

Vol. 88/No. 42 - November 11, 2024

MONTREAL — Montreal port workers, members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 375, are stepping up their fight for safe and livable working conditions. They’ve been working without a contract since the beginning of the year, and their…


Boeing workers vote to continue their strike, win broad support

Vol. 88/No. 42 - November 11, 2024
Huelguistas del sindicato IAM en planta de Boeing en Renton, Washington, 21 de octubre, antes de rechazar firmemente oferta de contrato de la empresa el 23 de octubre. La propuesta no incluía un plan de pensiones. “Más trabajadores están organizando sindicatos y los están utilizando”, dijo Rachele Fruit, candidata del PST para presidente de Estados Unidos.

SEATTLE — Members of the International Association of Machinists District 751 and W24 decisively voted down Boeing’s latest contract offer — by 64% — Oct. 23. Some 33,000 workers at the aerospace manufacturer from here in Washington to Southern California…


San Francisco hotel workers join expanding UNITE HERE strike

Vol. 88/No. 42 - November 11, 2024

SAN FRANCISCO — Hundreds of UNITE HERE Local 2 members at the Palace and Marriott Union Square hotels here have joined the strike launched a month earlier at three other hotels. Some 2,000 workers are now picketing and chanting. Their…


UN votes to condemn US economic war against Cuba

Vol. 88/No. 42 - November 11, 2024
Cuban Minister of Foreign Affairs Bruno Rodríguez, center, addresses supporters Oct. 30 at U.N. where resolution against U.S. embargo on Cuba passed 187-2 with one abstention.

In a special two-day session, the United Nations General Assembly met Oct. 29-30, debated and voted overwhelmingly in favor of a resolution submitted by Cuba calling for an end to Washington’s punishing 65-year economic war against the island’s people and…


Strikers at Bakkavor in UK say fight is strengthening their union

Vol. 88/No. 42 - November 11, 2024

SPALDING, England — As they enter their fifth week on strike for higher pay, Unite members at the food giant Bakkavor say their union is getting stronger. Over 100 workers in the plant have now joined the 700 who initially…


SWP leaders explain deepening showdown in the Middle East

Vol. 88/No. 42 - November 11, 2024
Hamas thugs in Khan Younis, Gaza, with woman brutally taken hostage from Israel Oct. 7, 2023. Anti-Jewish pogrom by Tehran-backed terror group launched war across Middle East.

NEW YORK — “One year after the Oct. 7 pogrom in Israel, there is no change in the decadeslong reactionary aims of the regime in Tehran and the organizations it leads, Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis and others,” said Dave Prince,…


‘Reads as if it had been written today’

Vol. 88/No. 42 - November 11, 2024
Mary-Alice Waters, left, and Isabel Moya, at Feb. 14, 2011, Havana launch of Cuban edition of Cosmetics, Fashions and the Exploitation of Women. The book takes up “the explosive development of the consumerist phase of imperialism,” Moya said, “a phase that today, paradoxically, has reached both its highest expression and its deepest crisis.”

“Is the use of cosmetics worth the attention of a Marxist?” JACK BUSTELO “Naked or clothed, dressed in linen or polyester, shaved, plucked, tattooed, painted, adorned with pearls or ceramic beads, siliconed, liposuctioned, covered with visible or invisible scars, with…


Democrat, Republican campaigns have no answers for working people

Vol. 88/No. 42 - November 11, 2024

For eight years Democrats have hammered away on one central point — telling the world that Donald Trump is “dangerous” and has to be stopped at all costs. Lacking any positive program to deal with the crisis conditions working people…