Rally marks five weeks of bus drivers strike in Manchester

Vol. 85/No. 15 - April 19, 2021

MANCHESTER, England — Determined to win further support for their fight, hundreds of striking bus drivers at Go North West and their supporters gathered at the Queen’s Road depot in north Manchester April 3 to mark five weeks on the…


Small fishermen in UK face gov’t, EU attack on livelihoods

Vol. 85/No. 15 - April 19, 2021
Andrés Mendoza, left, Communist League candidate for London mayor, talks to Lee Colgan March 12 in Hastings, south of London. Colgan, a small fishing boat crewman, said because of U.K., EU restrictions, he “can’t make a living as a fisherman” and has to work a second job.

HASTINGS, England — “The first thing you need to know is that the commercial fishing industry is divided between those fishing from boats shorter or longer than 10 meters,” Paul Joy told Andrés Mendoza, Communist League candidate for London mayor…


Amazon India delivery workers strike over payments, benefits

Vol. 85/No. 15 - April 19, 2021

Over 8,000 Amazon workers at 20 delivery hubs in Delhi and Pune, India, stopped work March 16, a day after the bosses at the giant e-commerce company slashed pay for parcel deliveries. The drivers, mainly hired through subcontracting firms, are…


SWP ‘stimulus’ appeal at $98,700 and growing!

Vol. 85/No. 15 - April 19, 2021

Contributors to the Socialist Workers Party “stimulus” appeal from the $1,400 U.S. government payments are setting the appeal on course toward $120,000! As we go to press $98,700 has been donated by 77 individuals. From Pittsburgh, Tony Lane wrote with…



SWP in Amarillo: Asarco strike lessons, back labor fights today

Vol. 85/No. 15 - April 19, 2021
In Amarillo, Texas, April 1, roofer Marcos Mendoza, left, told Gerardo Sánchez, SWP candidate for Dallas City Council, that bosses take advantage of undocumented workers to pay them lower wages. SWP fights for amnesty for all immigrant workers in the U.S., Sánchez said.

AMARILLO, Texas — Gerardo Sánchez, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Dallas City Council, and a team of campaign supporters spoke with a wide range of workers during a campaign visit here March 31 to April 1. “Workers in Dallas, in…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 85/No. 15 - April 19, 2021

April 22, 1996 The Clinton administration is leading the bosses’ assault on immigrant workers. Clinton has pushed for increases in border cops and use of U.S. armed forces to aid them. Under his Democratic tutelage raids, arrests, and deportations of…



Paris Commune was first workers government in history

Vol. 85/No. 15 - April 19, 2021
Meeting of elected representatives of Paris Commune, which lasted for 72 days in 1871. Karl Marx called the Commune “the glorious harbinger of a new society,” where “the proletariat for the first time held political power.” It showed the future, not just for France, but for working people worldwide.

This week’s special feature commemorates the 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune, the world’s first working-class government. It lasted from March 18 to May 28, 1871, before its overthrow in a bloody counterrevolution. The excerpts below are from an article,…


Tampa caravan: ‘End US embargo of Cuba!’

Vol. 85/No. 15 - April 19, 2021

TAMPA, Fla. — Some 40 people, mostly Cuban Americans, joined a car caravan here March 28, part of protests in the U.S. and around the world demanding the U.S. government end its nearly 60-year embargo against Cuba. The action was…