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…


May Day actions to defend immigrants, workers’ rights

Vol. 88/No. 18 - May 6, 2024

Events to celebrate May 1 — International Workers Day — are being held around the country, from strikes by e-hail drivers in several cities, to actions to win support for union contract fights and protests for the rights of immigrant…


SWP campaigns to win ballot status in New Jersey

Vol. 88/No. 17 - April 29, 2024
Tyrique Blount in Bloomfield, New Jersey, signs April 15 to put SWP presidential ticket and Joanne Kuniansky, right, the SWP candidate for U.S. Senate, on the ballot.

BLOOMFIELD, N.J. — Israel’s right to exist and to defend itself as a refuge for Jews, and the importance to the working class everywhere of the fight against Jew-hatred were central to discussions that Socialist Workers Party campaigners had knocking…


How Cuba’s socialist revolution transformed the working class

Vol. 88/No. 17 - April 29, 2024
Minister of Industry Che Guevara presents literacy drive banner at paint factory in Havana in November 1961. Don’t try to set “a world record,” he said, but “combine study and work.”

Trying to find out more about the photo on the cover of Pathfinder’s new edition of Che Guevara on Economics and Politics in the Transition to Socialism by Carlos Tablada, I and other socialist workers from Australia, Canada, United Kingdom…


Fight for workers control of production, safety

Vol. 88/No. 17 - April 29, 2024

Year after year thousands of workers die on the job as a result of speedup and unsafe conditions pushed by the bosses. The lives of these workers will be commemorated by the labor movement on Workers Memorial Day April 28.…


Quebec farmers rally against gov’t policies

Vol. 88/No. 17 - April 29, 2024

VAUDREUIL-DORION, Quebec — More than 65 tractors, with their front bumpers sporting signs such as “Feeding your family is our profession,” came from throughout the region to join a rally of over 300 farmers and their supporters here April 10.…