Canadian rail workers fight back against gov’t back-to-work order

Vol. 88/No. 35 - September 23, 2024

PORT MOODY, British Columbia — A rally and picnic was held at Rocky Point Park here Sept. 6 by rail workers fighting against Canadian government intervention ending their strike at the Canadian National and Canadian Pacific Kansas City railroads. They’re…


Richter supports fight by Pittsburgh nurses

Vol. 88/No. 35 - September 23, 2024

PITTSBURGH — Socialist Workers Party vice presidential candidate Dennis Richter discussed the party’s campaign with Helen Huber, an operating room nurse at West Penn Hospital, above, at a Sept. 4 rally here called by the Service Employees International Union. Nurses…


Refugees in Australia protest, demand right to visas

Vol. 88/No. 35 - September 23, 2024

SYDNEY — Over a hundred refugees and supporters of refugee rights gathered at Dorothy Reserve in Bankstown here Aug. 31, protesting conditions faced by asylum-seekers on longterm bridging visas in Australia. They called on the government to grant them permanent…


Anniversary of Zhina Amini death nears amid uptick in protests in Iran

Vol. 88/No. 35 - September 23, 2024

The Iranian government has been arresting opponents, especially in the Kurdish region, hoping to head off demonstrations on the second anniversary of the death of Zhina Amini. The young Kurdish woman died Sept. 16, 2022, after she was arrested in…


Russian pensioner attacked for anti-war views wins support

Vol. 88/No. 35 - September 23, 2024

Dmitry Grinchiy, an 87-year-old pensioner, was recently assaulted by two hefty men on a Moscow bus for muttering about the former Wagner Group mercenaries and against the war in Ukraine. The assailants then forced the driver to take them to…


Malcolm X led fight for Black liberation and workers power

Vol. 88/No. 35 - September 23, 2024

The French edition of Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers Power by Jack Barnes is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for September. Below is an excerpt from a talk by Barnes, national secretary of the…


‘Working class needs to take political power’

Vol. 88/No. 35 - September 23, 2024
Rachele Fruit, SWP presidential candidate, is interviewed by Fox News at Sept. 7 New York Labor Day march. She spoke with workers there, at Harlem Book Fair and at a public meeting.

Rachele Fruit: ‘We need to build a party of labor’ BY SARA LOBMAN NEW YORK — “The fight over which class rules is the central question facing working people everywhere in the world,” Rachele Fruit told the 48 people at…


Defending protections in US Constitution

Vol. 88/No. 35 - September 23, 2024

The Democrats yearslong efforts to use the FBI and frame-up court cases to bring down Donald Trump pose serious challenges to the working class. In the course of their attacks, and counterattacks by the Republicans, blows are being dealt to…


17,000 AT&T workers strike over wages, health care in the Southeast

Vol. 88/No. 34 - September 16, 2024
“We have gotten a lot of support from other unions,” striker Dennis Lawrence, right, told the Militant on picket line Aug. 26 in East Point, Georgia. CWA member Kelvin Gordon on left.

ATLANTA — Over 17,000 members of the Communications Workers of America in nine states across the Southeast went on strike Aug. 16 against telecommunications giant AT&T. Service technicians and customer service representatives walked out in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana,…


Fruit, UK Amazon workers discuss union battles

Vol. 88/No. 34 - September 16, 2024
Fruit, UK Amazon workers discuss union battles

COVENTRY, England — Warehouse workers Ceferina Floresca, left, and Garfield Hylton, second right, discuss their fight for a union at Amazon’s BHX4 facility here, with Socialist Workers Party presidential candidate Rachele Fruit, center; SWP leader Mary Martin, second from left;…