Chattanooga VW workers to vote on UAW April 17-19

Vol. 88/No. 15 - April 15, 2024

ATLANTA — Some 4,300 Volkswagen autoworkers in Chattanooga, Tennessee, will vote on union recognition April 17-19, aimed at bringing the United Auto Workers in to represent them. The election was set after union supporters filed what they called a “supermajority”…


Fight Jew-hatred! Defend Israel’s right to exist as a refuge for Jews!

Vol. 88/No. 15 - April 15, 2024
More than 1,000 people defend synagogue in Teaneck, New Jersey, April 1, outmobilizing 100 pro-Hamas protesters who claimed firsthand accounts of Oct. 7 pogrom atrocities given at fundraiser that night would “fuel Gaza genocide.” Gila Rachlin, who lives in the neighborhood, told the press, “I want them to know that the Jewish people can’t be intimidated.”

As the sixth-month anniversary of Hamas’ Oct. 7 pogrom against Jews in Israel approaches, the Israel Defense Forces are dealing blows to the reactionary Jew-hating group in Gaza and to the Tehran-led “axis of resistance.” But Hamas still holds some…


Over 200 Autoport strikers in Nova Scotia face injunction, scabs

Vol. 88/No. 15 - April 15, 2024

The 239 Unifor union members at Canadian National Railway’s Autoport in Eastern Passage, Nova Scotia, have been on strike since Feb. 27. CN bosses have brought in scabs and filed for an injunction against the strikers’ right to picket. The…


Cuba fights brutal effects of US rulers’ economic war

Vol. 88/No. 15 - April 15, 2024

For 65 years the U.S. government has carried out a far-reaching economic, trade and financial war against Cuba. This brutal policy has been continued by every one of the 13 Democratic and Republican administrations since 1959. The U.S. rulers’ stated…


Striking rail workers in UK: ‘Solidarity shows we’re not alone’

Vol. 88/No. 15 - April 15, 2024

MANCHESTER, England — Rail workers hired by contractor Carlisle Support Services who staff ticket gate lines for Northern Trains took their third day of strike action March 16 in a fight over two-tier pay, working conditions and for union recognition.…



Calif. nurses protest understaffing

Vol. 88/No. 15 - April 15, 2024

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Hundreds of nurses and supporters picketed outside the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center here April 2, the first day of a three-day strike by over 3,000 members of the Registered Nurses Professional Association at three county…


Student newspaper ‘Corsair’ interviews Rachele Fruit

Vol. 88/No. 15 - April 15, 2024
Corsair reporter Bunker King asked Fruit why the SWP has so many books. “The books contain our history, the history of the working class, that we need to learn from,” she explained.

Bunker King goes to Santa Monica College and is an editor at the Corsair, the student newspaper. He attended the March 30 talk by Rachele Fruit, SWP candidate for president, and interviewed her afterwards. These were some of the exchanges,…


Minn. Democrats attack third party ballot rights

Vol. 88/No. 15 - April 15, 2024

MINNEAPOLIS — A judge here March 20 ruled in favor of a suit filed by the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party that will revoke the major-party status of the Legal Marijuana Now Party, the last political party, other than the Democrats and Republicans,…


Leeds students take stand against Jew-hatred in UK

Vol. 88/No. 15 - April 15, 2024

LEEDS, England — “Jewish students have had enough,” Emma Levy, president of the Jewish Society at the University of Leeds, told several hundred students at a “Stand Against Antisemitism” vigil here March 1. It was called in response to mounting…