Volkswagen workers vote overwhelmingly for UAW

Vol. 88/No. 18 - May 6, 2024

In an important victory for unions across the U.S., workers at the Chattanooga, Tennessee, Volkswagen plant voted by 73% to be represented by the United Auto Workers, giving impetus to workers fighting for union recognition elsewhere. It’s the first assembly…


Support Israel as refuge from Jew-hatred and pogroms!

Vol. 88/No. 18 - May 6, 2024

The reactionary clerical regime in Iran had hoped the Oct. 7 anti-Jewish pogrom it organized with Hamas, along with Israel’s response to defend itself, would reverse moves by governments in Muslim-majority countries toward normalized relations with Israel. The opposite is…


Rachele Fruit: ‘Workers need a labor party based on the unions’

Vol. 88/No. 18 - May 6, 2024
Rachele Fruit, Socialist Workers Party candidate for president, speaks at campaign rally in Fort Worth April 20. “The future of humanity depends on the U.S. working class taking power away from the capitalist rulers and starting down the road to a socialist revolution,” she said.

FORT WORTH, Texas — “We’ve been on strike going on nine weeks. We have a lot of union support, but we need more,” Rick Miedema, secretary-treasurer of Teamsters Local 997 on strike at Molson Coors big brewery here, told Socialist…


Workers hit with rising medical care costs as bosses boost profits

Vol. 88/No. 18 - May 6, 2024
Brookdale Senior Living residents in Shawnee, Kansas, December 2023. Bosses of nationwide assisted living chain use algorithms to make staff cuts, limit time per patient to ramp up profits.

Increasing numbers of working people are finding themselves unable to cover the exorbitant costs of health care for their family. This is because under capitalism medical care is treated like every other industry, a way to generate profit, not to…




SWP campaigners win new support

Vol. 88/No. 18 - May 6, 2024
When Candace Wagner, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Congress, knocked on his door in Butler, Pennsylvania, UAW member Richard LeGrande said even with a union job it’s hard to afford housing. LeGrande got a Militant subscription, three books by SWP leaders.

Campaigners for Rachele Fruit, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for president, are introducing the party’s working-class program and activity widely among working people and making good use of the just-published title The Fight Against Jew-Hatred and Pogroms in the Imperialist…


Daimler workers prepare for strike as contract deadline nears

Vol. 88/No. 18 - May 6, 2024
United Auto Workers members join strike preparation rally April 10 outside Daimler trucking warehouse in Buford, Georgia. Workers are fighting for a wage raise, cost-of-living protection.

BUFORD, Ga. — Chanting “No bucks, no trucks!” and “We are the union — mighty, mighty union!” some 80 members of the United Auto Workers marched here April 20 in a practice picket in front of the Daimler Trucks parts…


Working people in Ukraine fight to defend their independence

Vol. 88/No. 18 - May 6, 2024

Moscow is stepping up its murderous assault on Ukrainian workers’ lives and on the mines and factories of the country’s eastern Donetsk region, as well as on crucial infrastructure across the country. Yet the Ukrainian people’s courageous determination to defend…


800 Toronto airport Teamsters strike for higher pay, safety

Vol. 88/No. 18 - May 6, 2024

MISSISSAUGA, Ontario— “Share the news. It must get around to everybody,” striker Maged Awad told the Militant as we walked the picket line at Toronto Pearson International Airport here April 20. Some 800 Teamsters Local 647 members struck airline meal…