Seattle union support grows for machinists Boeing strike

Vol. 88/No. 40 - October 28, 2024

SEATTLE — Over 500 workers on strike at Boeing packed the International Association of Machinists Local 751 hall here Oct. 15, chanting, “One day longer, one day stronger” and “Pension! Pension!” Hundreds more spilled outside the hall, where supporters from…


‘Social solidarity is moral basis of Cuba’s socialist revolution’

Vol. 88/No. 40 - October 28, 2024
Peasant women learn to read, write at Ana Betancourt school in Havana in 1960. Under Fidel Castro’s leadership, all widows and children — whether those of rebel combatants or soldiers of former Batista dictatorship — were schooled, treated equally. The moral foundation of the socialist revolution was equality for all.

The Spanish edition of  Marianas in Combat: Teté Puebla and the Mariana Grajales Women’s Platoon in Cuba’s Revolutionary War, 1956-58 is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for October. Puebla was an officer in the first all-women platoon in…


Mideast showdown: Israelis fight to defend a refuge from Jew-hatred

Vol. 88/No. 40 - October 28, 2024
As it threatens to destroy Israel, the reactionary bourgeois regime in Tehran is worried about growing opposition among working people in Iran to its military adventures in the region. Above, teachers and retirees protest for higher wages, pensions in Tehran Oct. 13.

The Israeli government has released documents its forces captured in Gaza that provide further proof Iran’s capitalist rulers and the leadership of Hezbollah in Lebanon — despite their denials — were centrally involved in the yearslong preparations for Hamas’ Oct.…


Endorse, build the SWP’s 2024 campaign!

Vol. 88/No. 40 - October 28, 2024

For the growing number of workers repelled by the Democratic and Republican parties and seeking ways to strengthen working-class interests and our unions, there is an alternative in 2024. The Socialist Workers Party is running Rachele Fruit for president, Dennis…


‘The working class needs to fight to take political power’

Vol. 88/No. 39 - October 21, 2024
Rachele Fruit, right, SWP candidate for U.S. president, speaks to Kate McKinney, a Boeing structural mechanic, Oct. 5 on picket line in Everett, Washington. “Jewish people have been persecuted forever,” McKinney said, pointing to attacks on Jewish students at U.S. campuses.

Fruit joins Boeing picket, builds support for strike SEATTLE — “We’re out here, not for me, but for my son” and other younger hires, Tom Brown, a striking Boeing worker told Rachele Fruit, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for president,…


Endeavor flight attendants protest for equal pay in Atlanta

Vol. 88/No. 39 - October 21, 2024
Endeavor Air flight attendants and supporters protest at Delta Air Lines headquarters in Hapeville, Georgia, Oct. 3, demanding equal pay with Delta flight attendants, improved conditions.

HAPEVILLE, Ga. — Marching behind a big red banner that read “Same work, poverty pay. End the Delta disparity difference,” some 50 Endeavor Air flight attendants, backed by pilots and other supporters, held a spirited protest at Delta Air Lines…


Monogram UAW workers hang tough in California strike

Vol. 88/No. 39 - October 21, 2024

COMMERCE, Calif. — With over two months on strike against the bosses at Monogram Aerospace Fasteners here, United Auto Workers Local 509 members are determined to come out on top. “The one exciting thing that’s come out of this is…


Contract rail workers in UK win fight for union recognition

Vol. 88/No. 39 - October 21, 2024
Manchester Carlisle Support Services rail workers, who check tickets on Northern Trains, in strike protest Jan. 27, one of many over years. They won broad support from other rail workers.

MANCHESTER, England — “We’ve won a major victory,” said David Lawrence, one of the leaders of the many-years-long fight to win union recognition by more than 150 rail workers employed by contractor Carlisle Support Services. They won recognition of the…


Hotel workers strike at two Boston-area Hilton hotels

Vol. 88/No. 39 - October 21, 2024

BOSTON — A spirited picket line of striking hotel workers marched around the Hilton Boston Park Plaza, chanting, dancing and drumming on Home Depot buckets Oct. 8. Over 600 workers, members of UNITE HERE Local 26, have been on strike…


Striking food workers say wage proposal is an ‘insult’

Vol. 88/No. 39 - October 21, 2024

SPALDING, England — Some 700 workers at the Bakkavor food factory here, members of the Unite trade union, walked out Sept. 27 over demands for higher pay. When two Militant worker-correspondents visited their lively picket lines Oct. 2, we found…