Writers Guild strikers rally at Rockefeller Center

Vol. 87/No. 23 - June 12, 2023

NEW YORK — Over 500 members and supporters of the striking Writers Guild of America union rallied outside Rockefeller Center here May 23. Mike Karnell, who has been a writer for seven years, told the Militant that he believes striking…


‘Workers need a labor party based on the unions’

SWP launches California campaign for US Senate
Vol. 87/No. 23 - June 12, 2023
Laura Garza, left, SWP candidate for U.S. Senate from California in 2024, at May 26 union rally in Los Angeles. Garza says workers need to break from the Democrats, Republicans.

LOS ANGELES — At a May 26 labor rally here, Laura Garza, a rail worker and member of the SMART-Transportation Division union, and her campaign supporters distributed hundreds of flyers announcing she was running as the Socialist Workers Party candidate…


Workers in East Palestine discuss politics, derailment

Vol. 87/No. 23 - June 12, 2023

EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — At the street fair going on here, Nancy Felger, a retired health care worker and former shop steward of her Service Employees International Union local, told Socialist Workers Party member Candace Wagner that she heard that…


Delta airline workers rally for the right to unionize

Vol. 87/No. 23 - June 12, 2023

ATLANTA — Delta airline workers here fighting for union representation held a spirited rally at the Hartsfield-Jackson airport May 25. In-flight crew members are seeking representation from the Association of Flight Attendants; ramp and cargo workers from the International Association…


Toxic chemical fires poison East Texas

Vol. 87/No. 23 - June 12, 2023

Since the beginning of May there have been three fires at refineries and chemical plants near Houston, with one worker dead and over a dozen injured. Like the disaster in East Palestine, Ohio, these dangers are a product of the…


Medical supplies workers strike in Sydney, win pay raise

Vol. 87/No. 23 - June 12, 2023
Medical supplies workers in Sydney, members of United Workers Union, picket Onelink distribution center May 23 during strike for wage raise and improved severance pay.

SYDNEY — “We are striking for more wages,” said Joe Matthews on the picket line outside the Onelink distribution center here May 23. “All we want is a fair go.” United Workers Union members at the warehouse first walked out…


Capitalist crisis drives birth rate, life expectancy down

Vol. 87/No. 23 - June 12, 2023

As prices continue to rise, especially on necessities like food, housing and health care, and as the worldwide decline in capitalist production and trade threatens layoffs, insistence by Joseph Biden administration officials that the economy is doing well ring hollow.…


Democrats, FBI push assaults on political rights workers need

Vol. 87/No. 23 - June 12, 2023

In their factional drive to hound former President Donald Trump out of politics, the Democrats for over six years have done serious damage to crucial constitutional freedoms. Free speech, assembly, protection against unreasonable searches and seizures, the right to a…


Why you should join the SWP campaign

Vol. 87/No. 23 - June 12, 2023

Statement by Seth Galinsky, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New York City Council, May 31. The Socialist Workers Party’s 2024 campaigns are beginning, with Laura Garza announcing her campaign for U.S. Senate in California at a sizable labor rally in…


Over 300 Montreal Steelworkers strike Owens Illinois over wages

Vol. 87/No. 23 - June 12, 2023

MONTREAL — “There’s nothing moving in the plant,” striker Serge Latendresse told the Militant on the picket line in front of Owens Illinois, Quebec’s only glass factory, May 27. Over 300 United Steelworkers Local 206G members walked out May 10…