Case workers hold strike rallies in Wisconsin, Iowa

Vol. 87/No. 1 - January 2, 2023
Striking United Auto Workers Local 180 members at Case New Holland rally in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, Dec. 17 to build support in fight for higher wages, affordable health care.

MOUNT PLEASANT, Wis. — Some 200 United Auto Workers Local 180 members and their supporters rallied in subfreezing weather here Dec. 17 to build support for their strike against the bosses at Case New Holland. The 600 Case workers at…


Letters

Vol. 87/No. 1 - January 2, 2023

Ken Evenhuis Ken Evenhuis, a nearly six-decades-long member and supporter of the Socialist Workers Party, died in Los Angeles Dec. 1. He was 77. Ken and his wife, Donna, joined the Young Socialist Alliance in 1964, attracted by the SWP…


Capitalist crisis fuels stagflation: prices rise as recession bites

Vol. 87/No. 1 - January 2, 2023
South African public workers protest in Pretoria Nov. 22 on “National Day of Action,” demanding 10% wage raise to cover rising prices. Similar actions are taking place worldwide.

With prices continuing to rise alongside growing numbers of layoffs, working people face the beginning of what could be an extended period of “stagflation” — a combination of increased prices and falling capitalist production, trade and jobs. The impact of…


Starbucks workers go on strike, advance fight for a union

Vol. 87/No. 1 - January 2, 2023

ROSS TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Strikers picketed the Starbucks here Dec. 16-18 as part of a three-day national work stoppage, organized by Starbucks Workers United at some 100 of the company’s shops, demanding union recognition and negotiations for a contract. According…


Nurses, rail, postal workers go on strike across the UK

Vol. 87/No. 1 - January 2, 2023
Nurses picket Royal Marsden Hospital in London Dec. 15, one of a series of nationwide work stoppages aimed at beating back low wages, effects of inflation and eroding work conditions.

LONDON — Rail workers, postal workers, ambulance drivers and nurses are joining in nationwide union work stoppages to fight declining real wages, job cuts and eroding conditions of work, and they’re winning support from other workers. Ten thousand members of…


Volunteers win bookstore, library orders for Pathfinder books

Vol. 87/No. 1 - January 2, 2023

This fall’s campaign to get Pathfinder books into bookstores, libraries and classrooms is well underway with volunteers on course to meet their goal of 115 orders by the end of January. So far, 81 orders have been won for books…


Rail workers protest as gov’t imposes contract, bars strike

Rallies from Washington, DC, to Sparks, Nevada
Vol. 87/No. 1 - January 2, 2023
Over 40 unionists at SMART-TD-organized rally Dec. 13 in Denver back rail workers’ struggle over job conditions, for safer crew sizes and family-friendly work schedules.

CHICAGO — In rail yards and on locomotives across the country discussion and debate continue among rail workers over how to respond to the ongoing attacks from the rail bosses and the government. These include grueling schedules, draconian attendance policies,…


Canada school workers stood ground, won wage raise

Vol. 87/No. 1 - January 2, 2023
Canadian Union of Public Employees march in Ontario Nov. 4 wins support in strike that defeated provincial government anti-union law.

TORONTO — Ontario school workers, members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, voted to approve a new contract, union President Laura Walton announced Dec. 5.  The vote followed the victory won by CUPE members when they defied provincial Premier…


Tehran regime repression fails to stop protests and strikes in Iran

Vol. 86/No. 46 - December 12, 2022
Striking workers at Isfahan iron smelting factory Nov. 26. Unionists have waged a series of strikes against boss, government attacks alongside widespread protests sweeping Iran.

Despite the death of more than 400 protesters and the arrests of thousands, the bourgeois clerical regime in Iran has not been able to stop working people and youth from joining protests and strikes that have swept the country since…


Democrats, antifa push anti-Catholic attacks, bigotry

Vol. 86/No. 46 - December 12, 2022

Over the last two years there have been at least 170 attacks on Catholic churches across the U.S. In 38 states and the District of Columbia, week after week churches have had services disrupted, windows broken out, bullets shot through…