Washington tree farmers take on new government attacks

Vol. 87/No. 14 - April 10, 2023

SEATTLE — Small logging farmers in Washington state are waging a battle with the state Forest Practices Board that controls logging on private land. It involves state regulations enforcing excessively large buffers that the farmers are required to maintain next…


National farmers convention takes up crisis facing toilers on the land

Vol. 87/No. 14 - April 10, 2023
Socialist Workers Party members Ellie García and Joel Britton with farmer Will Scott in Fresno, California. Britton participated in National Farmers Union convention, talked to working farmers about need for a labor party, based on the unions and worker-farmer alliance.

SAN FRANCISCO — Some 475 farmers, ranchers and other members of the National Farmers Union held their 121st Anniversary Convention here March 5-7. The NFU includes capitalist, middle and working farmers. The presentations and discussions reflected the consequences of today’s…


Join fight to defend rights workers need

Vol. 87/No. 14 - April 10, 2023

The following is an excerpt from the Political Resolution adopted by the SWP at its convention last December and printed in The Low Point of Labor Resistance Is Behind Us: The Socialist Workers Party Looks Forward by Jack Barnes, Mary-Alice…


Campaign to win ‘Militant,’ book readers, spring fund contributors

Vol. 87/No. 14 - April 10, 2023
Socialist Workers Party members introduce Militant, literature by party leaders at rally of school workers in Los Angeles March 23 on final day of strike winning better pay, work hours.

“You should go talk to the Murphys. They are very outspoken about the train derailment disaster here,” Tish McDevitt, a greenhouse worker in East Palestine, Ohio, told Socialist Workers Party members who were bringing solidarity and covering the response of…


US bakery workers discuss job safety with unionists in Cuba

Vol. 87/No. 14 - April 10, 2023
Che Guevara, second from left, visits factory as Cuba’s minister of industry in the early 1960s. He talked with workers about setting an example and reinforcing communist consciousness of work as a social responsibility. Along with Fidel Castro, Che was part of leadership cadres forged in struggle who led Cuban working people to take state power and begin to transform themselves as they transformed society.

HAVANA — Several industrial bakery workers from the U.S., members of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers union, had the opportunity to exchange experiences with leaders of Cuba’s trade unions earlier this year. We met with Jorge Luis…


Protest marks Lac-Mégantic disaster, land expropriations

Vol. 87/No. 14 - April 10, 2023
Tanker cars running through Lac-Mégantic April 2022. Trains carry toxic chemical vinyl chloride, like in Feb. 3 toxic derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. “Canadian Pacific, responsible for 2013 tragedy, will get $1 billion” for bypass, said Robert Bellefleur of committee for rail safety.

FRONTENAC, Quebec — Some 70 workers, farmers, area residents and others turned out to a press conference here March 10 called by the Union of Agricultural Producers and the Union of Forestry Producers of Southern Quebec, which represents landowners who…


Book fair reflects class politics in Kurdistan and Iraq

600,000 turn out, interested in titles on politics, culture, history of revolutionary struggle
Vol. 87/No. 14 - April 10, 2023
Volunteer Joe Young, right, with visitors to Pathfinder booth at book fair in Kurdistan region of Iraq. Participants bought 1,200 books by communist and other revolutionary leaders.

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region, Iraq — On March 16 participants in the 15th Erbil International Book Fair observed a moment of silence, joining people across Kurdistan in marking 35 years since the Saddam Hussein dictatorship attacked the town of Halabja with…


Militant Fighting Fund key to financing the paper

Vol. 87/No. 14 - April 10, 2023

The Militant is 100% financed by its readers — workers, farmers and youth who think the paper’s coverage is crucial to help our class find a road forward against the attacks of the bosses, their government and their state. We…


Socialist Workers Party author speaks on new title at book fair forum

Vol. 87/No. 14 - April 10, 2023
SWP leader Steve Clark signs copies of The Low Point of Labor Resistance is Behind Us, following March 11 presentation at Erbil International Book Fair in Kurdistan Region of Iraq.

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region, Iraq — Over 50 people attended a March 11 presentation by Steve Clark on The Low Point of Labor Resistance Is Behind Us: The Socialist Workers Party Looks Forward. Clark is editorial director of Pathfinder Press and…


Paris strike boosts fight against gov’t raising retirement age

Vol. 87/No. 14 - April 10, 2023

PARIS — After two-and-a-half weeks on strike, workers at three garbage incinerators, including the Paprec Energies plant in Saint-Ouen, a northern suburb, returned to work March 24. The strike was part of the ongoing mass opposition to French President Emmanuel…