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…



May 1 rallies push for stronger unions, rights of immigrants

Vol. 87/No. 19 - May 15, 2023
Farmworkers lead march for immigrant and workers’ rights in Yakima, Washington, May 1.

NEW YORK — International Workers Day marches and protests across the United States and in the U.S. colony of Puerto Rico May 1 — like similar actions all over the world — attracted working people and youth looking for ways…


Chernobyl disaster result of Stalinist contempt for workers

Vol. 87/No. 19 - May 15, 2023

On April 26, 1986 — 37 years ago — the people of Ukraine bore the brunt of the world’s worst nuclear disaster, the explosion, fire and meltdown at the Chernobyl power plant. It was a catastrophe denied by Soviet authorities…


Join fight for a working-class road forward!

Vol. 87/No. 19 - May 15, 2023

Statement by Seth Galinsky, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New York City Council, May 3.  There are more openings to strengthen our unions today, to join labor and working-class struggles and to build solidarity. Working people need to be prepared…