BMWE rail workers protest in Omaha, demand sick pay

Vol. 87/No. 14 - April 10, 2023

OMAHA, Neb. — Members of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees union continue to organize protests at railroad bosses’ headquarters demanding paid sick days. On March 24, nearly 100 BMWE members and other union supporters — from American Federation…


Iraqi Communist Party message of solidarity with Cuba

Vol. 87/No. 14 - April 10, 2023

Below is the solidarity message sent by Raid Fahmi on behalf of the Central Committee of the Iraqi Communist Party to the two-day International US-Cuba Normalization Conference held in New York City March 11-12. Fahmi is secretary of the party’s…


Sanitation workers in Denmark strike over onerous work schedule

Vol. 87/No. 14 - April 10, 2023

Some 550 sanitation workers went on strike in Copenhagen, Denmark, March 20 after officials at the municipal trash-collection agency refused to back down on imposing a more onerous work schedule. The strikers set up a mass picket, blocking the entrance…


Hawaii hospital workers strike wins growing support

Vol. 87/No. 14 - April 10, 2023

Contract negotiations between the United Public Workers union and three hospitals in the Kaiser health system on the Hawaiian island of Maui took place March 17. The nurses’ aides, therapists, technicians, groundskeepers, housekeepers, cooks, laundry workers and other union members…


Gov’t court ‘reform’ paused after protests paralyze Israel

Vol. 87/No. 14 - April 10, 2023

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu put his government’s push for judicial “reform” on hold March 27 in the face of growing opposition, including a national strike at the airport, stock exchange and hospitals called by the Histadrut labor federation, paralyzing…


Support East Palestine fight for control over the cleanup

Rail workers win victory against 1-person ‘crew’
Vol. 87/No. 14 - April 10, 2023
“People from all over have been coming together to help,” Kaylee Ball, holding a copy of the Militant amid donations at her Salem, Ohio, farm, told SWP member Jacquie Henderson March 23. Working people are battling effects of derailment in East Palestine.

EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — Solidarity with working people, farmers and small-business people who have been affected by the Feb. 3 Norfolk Southern train derailment and their fight to win control over the cleanup and rebuilding here is being expressed through…


Teachers strike schools throughout New Zealand

Vol. 87/No. 14 - April 10, 2023

AUCKLAND, New Zealand — Fifty thousand teachers shut down schools throughout New Zealand March 16 in a 24-hour nationwide strike demanding better pay and conditions. The strike involved primary school and kindergarten teachers organized by the New Zealand Educational Institute…


Defend crucial constitutional freedoms from gov’t assault

Vol. 87/No. 14 - April 10, 2023

While New York City prosecutor Alvin Bragg pushes to indict former President Donald Trump on charges even he admits would be difficult to prove, federal prosecutors announced they plan to charge up to 1,200 more people in connection with the…


Farmworkers fight for gov’t aid for flooded communities

Vol. 87/No. 14 - April 10, 2023
At bridge between Pajaro and Watsonville, California, residents lambast government officials March 17 for inadequate response, lack of information and aid in face of flooding in Pajaro.

WATSONVILLE, Calif. — “They don’t care about us.” This is how farmworker Jose Narvaez summed up the attitude of governmental agencies responsible for the unfolding social disaster after the flooding of Pajaro, just south of Watsonville, where many farmworkers live.…


Defend Ukraine independence!
Moscow out of all of Ukraine!

Vol. 87/No. 14 - April 10, 2023
Drawing by 12-year-old Masha Moskaleva from Yefremov, south of Moscow. Ukrainian woman and child defy Russian missiles, with “Glory to Ukraine” on Ukraine flag, “No to war!” on Russian flag. Her father has been sentenced to prison while she’s confined in a children’s home.

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s brutal efforts to conquer Ukraine have been deadlocked for months as a result of the courageous efforts of working people in Ukraine. The Russian rulers occupy almost a fifth of Ukraine but the front lines have…