‘The SWP is unalterably opposed to all imperialist wars’

Vol. 88/No. 22 - June 3, 2024
Revolutionary leaders of SWP and Minneapolis Teamsters Local 544-CIO were sentenced to prison during World War II for leading opposition in labor movement to Washington’s drive to enter imperialist slaughter to win markets and power. Using Militant, pamphlets and Industrial Organizer, they won working-class support, defense of political rights.

Socialism on Trial, one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for May, contains the testimony of James P. Cannon, a founding leader of the Socialist Workers Party and then its national secretary, at the 1941 trial of 18 leaders of…



25, 50 and 75 years ago

Vol. 88/No. 22 - June 3, 2024

June 7, 1999 PASCAGOULA, Miss. — “Good news to Newport News, Ingalls workers want money too!” declares a picket sign at the main gate of Ingalls Shipbuilding in this Gulf Coast town. With 11,500 workers, it’s Mississippi’s largest private employer.…


Richter joins locked-out Boeing firefighters’ picket

Vol. 88/No. 22 - June 3, 2024
SWP vice presidential candidate Dennis Richter, left, on Boeing firefighters’ picket May 13.

SEATTLE — Dennis Richter, Rachele Fruit’s running mate as Socialist Workers Party candidate for vice president, joined International Association of Fire Fighters Local I-66 members at their picket line outside Boeing’s factory gates here May 13. Some 125 firefighters at…


School cleaners in Australia rally for better pay and conditions

Vol. 88/No. 22 - June 3, 2024

SYDNEY — Around 70 school cleaners, members of the United Workers Union, and their supporters rallied in pouring rain at Parramatta in west Sydney May 11 to protest low pay and the erosion of their working conditions. “I’ve been a…


Join fight to overturn ban on ‘Militant’ in Florida prison

Vol. 88/No. 22 - June 3, 2024

Prison officials in Florida have banned an issue of the Militant in violation of inmates’ constitutional rights and the right of the Militant to reach its subscribers behind bars. Aided by the Militant’s attorney, David Goldstein, we are fighting to…


Track workers demand sick days at Canadian Pacific Kansas City

Vol. 88/No. 22 - June 3, 2024
Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way workers picket at Canadian Pacific Kansas City community steam train event in Franklin Park, Illinois, May 8, in fight for paid sick leave.

FRANKLIN PARK, Ill. — “What do we want? Paid sick days!” chanted track workers and supporters outside the CPKC railroad’s community relations event here May 8. The rail bosses are touring a steam locomotive from Canada to Mexico to celebrate…


Support Israel’s fight to defeat Hamas, prevent more pogroms

Vol. 88/No. 22 - June 3, 2024
Aftermath of Hamas’ slaughter of 370 Jews and others at Nova music festival in Israel, part of Oct. 7 pogrom that killed 1,200 people overall. More than 40 of the hostages Hamas seized were at the festival. “Everything we do is justified,” says Hamas leader Ghazi Hamad, inset.

With their move into Rafah, Israeli forces are making progress in the fight to dismantle Hamas in Gaza, an absolute necessity to prevent the Tehran-backed group from carrying out its threats to keep massacring Jews “again and again.” Since May…


‘Your fight can be an example,’ Richter tells flight attendants

Vol. 88/No. 21 - May 27, 2024

CHICAGO — Dennis Richter, Socialist Workers Party candidate for vice president, joined the American Airlines flight attendants rallying at O’Hare airport May 9, a highlight of his campaign visit here. Dray Howard, president of the Association of Professional Flight Attendants…