Uber, Lyft drivers strike, rally at New York airport

Vol. 87/No. 10 - March 13, 2023
Uber and Lyft drivers staged one-day strike at LaGuardia airport Feb. 26 to demand “pay raise we’re entitled to,” Yohan Fulgencio, an Uber driver since 2015, told the Militant. Another Uber driver, Ajay Singh, said, “The company takes too much of our money,” more than 50% of fares.

NEW YORK — “We’re fighting to receive the pay raise we’re entitled to,” Yohan Fulgencio, an Uber driver since 2015, told the Militant Feb. 26. “With inflation, all of our operating expenses have gone up — gas, insurance, repairs, maintenance…


Hundreds protest beating death of prisoner in Montreal

Vol. 87/No. 10 - March 13, 2023

MONTREAL — Hundreds marched here Feb. 10 to protest the death of Nicous D’André Spring, a 21-year-old black man on Dec. 25, a day after he was assaulted by prison guards at Montreal’s Bordeaux prison. He was arrested Dec. 20…


‘Workers and working farmers both face common class enemy’

Vol. 87/No. 10 - March 13, 2023
U. S. farm debt in billions of dollars. After rising for decades, average farm debt has reached a record high. A disproportionate amount of this debt falls on the backs of working farmers.

MOUNT OLIVE, N.J. — “My father inherited his family’s debts, then we inherited his,” Hunter Hildebrant, 25, told the Militant at her family’s farm Feb. 18. Together with brothers Roy and Forrest, and twin sister Aspen, she grows tomatoes, onions,…


Read new book by SWP leaders, get ‘Militant’ around

Vol. 87/No. 9 - March 6, 2023

Socialist Workers Party members Ved Dookhun and Candace Wagner visited East Palestine, Ohio, Feb. 19. They got into a discussion with a cook, Michael McIntosh, at his house a few hundred yards from the area where a 150-car Norfolk Southern…


New earthquakes hit, social disaster continues to unfold in Syria, Turkey

Vol. 87/No. 9 - March 6, 2023
Collapsed buildings in Hatay, Turkey, after Feb. 6 earthquakes. Tens of thousands of people died and millions are homeless in Turkey and Syria because of for-profit building construction.

The course of the Turkish and Syrian governments, alongside intervention by Washington, Moscow, Tehran and others, is exacerbating the disastrous consequences of earthquakes that struck Syria and Turkey Feb. 6. More than 45,000 people have died as of Feb. 17,…


SWP debates constitutional rights at Florida Forum

Vol. 87/No. 9 - March 6, 2023

Steve Warshell, who was the Socialist Workers Party 2022 candidate for U.S. Senate from Florida, spoke before the Deerfield Progressive Forum Feb. 18 about the worsening crisis of the capitalist economy, of politics, of morality, of education, of family and…


1918: Soviet forces liberate Ukraine, inspire fighters worldwide

Vol. 87/No. 9 - March 6, 2023
Red Army troops welcomed in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Dec. 8, 1917. Bolshevik Revolution in October 1917 put Russian workers and peasants in power, ended Russian involvement in World War I, put an end to czar’s “prison house of nations,” forming Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

My Life: An Attempt at an Autobiography by Leon Trotsky is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for February. Under V.I. Lenin, Trotsky was a central leader of the Russian Revolution, including as foreign minister of the young Soviet…


Build worker-farmer alliance to fight for our class interests

Vol. 87/No. 9 - March 6, 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.

Socialist Workers National Campaign Statement issued by Ellie García Feb. 21. Exploited farmers and ranchers face skyrocketing prices for fuel, seed, fertilizer, equipment and other inputs today. At the same time, capitalists reap vast profits from land speculation, driving up…



Workers in China protest gov’t attack on their health care

Vol. 87/No. 9 - March 6, 2023
Thousands of older retirees protested in Wuhan, above, Feb. 15, and elsewhere in China, against government cuts to their health benefits, chanting “Give us back our money!”

Thousands of working people, mostly older retirees, have been demonstrating in China since the government announced Feb. 1 the most significant health care reforms in over two decades. In reality, the “reforms” give the regime the ability to steal the…