End forced sterilization of Native women in Canada!

Vol. 87/No. 4 - January 30, 2023

MONTREAL — Two recent reports document the longstanding practice of the capitalist rulers in Canada to promote forcibly sterilizing Indigenous women. And the numbers reported are just the tip of the iceberg. This is part of the long history of…


SWP candidates file for the ballot in Texas

Vol. 87/No. 4 - January 30, 2023
SWP candidates file for the ballot in Texas

FORT WORTH — Alyson Kennedy, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor, and Gerardo Sánchez, running for City Council in the 5th District, filed for the ballot for the May 6 election in the city secretary’s office here Jan. 18. “We…


Meeting to celebrate political life of Mary Lou Montauk

Vol. 87/No. 4 - January 30, 2023

Mary Lou Montauk, a lifelong member and supporter of the Socialist Workers Party, died Jan. 5, a few days before turning 93. A meeting to celebrate her life and political contributions will be held Jan. 21 at 8400 Enterprise Way…


Capitalist rulers in Europe mask depth of rising prices

Vol. 87/No. 4 - January 30, 2023
Thousands demonstrate in Paris Jan. 7 demanding higher wages to cover soaring prices and to protest President Emmanuel Macron’s plan to increase retirement age beyond 62 years.

The big-business media is hailing the slight drop in inflation rates in Europe last month as a sign that the capitalist rulers are getting price rises under control. But this masks the intolerable impact that decades-high levels continue to have…


Port of Quebec workers fight for livable schedules

Vol. 87/No. 4 - January 30, 2023
Port of Quebec workers fight for livable schedules

QUEBEC CITY — Eighty-one longshoremen, members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 2614 at the Port of Quebec here, have been on the picket line since bosses locked them out Sept. 15. While visiting the picket line Dec.…


Solidarity key to strengthening union actions in UK

Vol. 87/No. 4 - January 30, 2023
Hundreds of trade unionists join protest against government anti-strike bill Jan. 16, Downing Street, London. Action was called by the Rail, Maritime and Transport union.

MANCHESTER, England — “On our 16th day of action fighting for a pay rise I want to extend support to all the other unions that are in this fight,” train conductor Clayton Clive told a Jan. 7 solidarity rally of…


Amnesty for undocumented workers, unify working class!

Vol. 87/No. 3 - January 16, 2023
Immigrant rights march April 2021 near the White House. Fighting for amnesty for undocumented workers in the U.S. is key to working-class unity, strengthening our unions.

Now halfway through the term of President Joseph Biden, his Border Patrol agents arrested a record 2.2 million immigrants in 2022 at the border with Mexico. Nearly half were deported back under Title 42, a 1944 law invoked in March…


Cuba’s socialist revolution is an example for all workers

Vol. 87/No. 3 - January 16, 2023

Sixty-four years ago, on Jan. 1, 1959, workers and farmers in Cuba brought down one of the bloodiest tyrannies in the Americas, the U.S.-backed dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, opening the door to making a socialist revolution. Led by Fidel Castro…


Back Ukraine independence! Protest Putin’s war, bombings

Vol. 87/No. 3 - January 16, 2023

Ukrainian people have stepped up the courageous defense of their homeland as fighting grinds on in the south and east and as Moscow’s bombardment of cities across the country continues. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s assault on the country’s power infrastructure…


Solidarity with Ingredion workers strike, stop boss takeback demands

Vol. 87/No. 3 - January 16, 2023
Mike Moore, center, president of BCTGM Local 100G, on strike against Ingredion in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, receives check on picket line for $1,521 from Dan Fein and Veronica Hopkins (taking picture) Dec. 29 from BCTGM Local 1 collection at Mondelez bakery in Chicago.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — “This is our 151st day on strike and we’re still holding the line,” Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 100G President Mike Moore told this fellow union member and Militant worker-correspondent on the picket…