Extend the reach of SWP campaigns, ‘Militant,’ books and Fighting Fund

Vol. 87/No. 20 - May 22, 2023
SWP member Andrea Morell, right, selling Militant subscription at Berkeley, California, book fair May 7. At one-day fair, 21 subscriptions and 63 Pathfinder books were sold amid lively discussions on union solidarity, constitutional rights and the fight against antisemitism.

Socialist Workers Party and Communist League candidates and members are responding to political opportunities opened up by the continuing crisis of capitalism and the working-class resistance it spawns to meet and exceed this spring’s goal of signing up 1,350 Militant…


Back Ukraine independence! Moscow out of Ukraine now!

Vol. 87/No. 20 - May 22, 2023

Hit with a new wave of cruise missile strikes on Kyiv and aerial attacks on other cities, working people in Ukraine deepened their determination to resist Moscow’s assaults on their independence. At home, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime is tightening…


DHL Express workers vote in the Teamsters at DHL’s largest hub

Vol. 87/No. 20 - May 22, 2023

CINCINNATI — Over 1,100 ramp workers and tug drivers at the DHL Global Hub at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport scored a victory April 28 when they voted 505-287 to be represented by Teamsters union Local 100. The key issues in…


UAW strikers win first contract at Illinois steel plant

Vol. 87/No. 20 - May 22, 2023

BEDFORD PARK, Ill. — “After 65 days on the picket line, workers at Metal-Matic [here] have ratified their first union contract, winning equal pay for equal work, and an end to major pay disparities,” the United Auto Workers union announced…


Working people in East Palestine keep up fight for cleanup, health

Vol. 87/No. 19 - May 15, 2023

EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — Three months after the Feb. 3 Norfolk Southern train derailment, fire and burn-off of toxic vinyl chloride here, workers, farmers and small-business people continue to press to gain control over needed steps to clean up the…



Irish workers discuss prospects for unification as support grows

Vol. 87/No. 19 - May 15, 2023

DUBLIN, Ireland — Marking the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak went to Belfast to sell his government’s latest attempt to stabilize British rule in Northern Ireland. President Joseph Biden also toured Ireland, touting…


Expand reach of SWP campaigns, ‘Militant,’ books by SWP leaders

Vol. 87/No. 19 - May 15, 2023
Socialist Workers Party member Naomi Craine signs up foundry worker Gabriel Quintero for Militant subscription,

We’re entering the home stretch of the international campaign to extend the readership of the Militant by 1,350; sell a similar number of books by Socialist Workers Party leaders and other revolutionaries; introduce the party’s candidates and its program to…


Farmers fight to make ends meet in Ireland

Vol. 87/No. 19 - May 15, 2023

“We lost money for nearly two years solid,” Roy Gallie, chairperson of the Irish Farmers’ Association Pigs Committee, told the Militant by phone April 16. Last year he helped organize protests at retailers to highlight the fact that prices paid…


Support Ukraine independence! Join fight against Moscow invasion

Vol. 87/No. 19 - May 15, 2023

With its invading forces unable to overcome staunch Ukrainian resistance, Moscow resumed long-range airstrikes aimed at doing maximum damage to civilians, their homes and work sites in Ukraine at the end of April. Working people there are at the center…