Despite brutal attacks by police, the Iranian regime’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and its Basij thugs, and the arrests of thousands, daily protests across Iran have continued for more than 30 days and are still going strong. The protests began…
LINCOLN, Neb. — Some 115,000 rail workers across the country are debating their future as they vote on proposed new contracts, which will determine if there will be a strike. The members of the two largest unions, with 60,000 members…
In the final couple of weeks leading up to elections, candidates of the Socialist Workers Party are campaigning to get out news of key strikes and working-class battles worldwide and presenting the party’s program. And they are introducing working people…
MERRILLVILLE, Ind. — More than 200 United Steelworkers members from U.S. Steel’s Gary Works braved rain and stiff winds to send a message to the corporation’s CEO, David Burritt, who was speaking here Oct. 11 to the local chapter of…
With just three weeks before midterm elections, Democrats are ratcheting up their anti-Donald Trump crusade to a fever pitch, with more televised congressional show trial hearings into the Jan. 6, 2021, melee at the Capitol and the House select committee’s…
SAN FRANCISCO — After three days on strike, over 1,000 cooks, servers, dishwashers, baristas, lounge attendants and cashiers at San Francisco’s International Airport won a new contract Sept. 28. They got a $5 an hour wage increase over two years,…
Rising prices are having a devastating impact on workers’ lives in the U.S., across the advanced capitalist world and, especially, in the semi-colonial countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America, with no end in sight. The capitalist crisis increasingly involves…
PHILADELPHIA — Unionized graduate assistants at Temple University protested outside the school’s board of trustees meeting taking place at Charles Library here Oct. 11 demanding a new contract. The demonstration, organized by Temple University Graduate Student Assistants, American Federation of…
Statement issued Oct. 19 by Alyson Kennedy, Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor of Texas. A former coal miner, Kennedy was part of a Militant reporting team to Soma, Turkey, in 2014. The methane gas explosion in the state-owned Turkish…
LARYMNA, Greece — A solidarity concert attended by over 250 mine and smelter workers, their families and area unionists and other supporters took place here Oct. 9, about a two-hour drive north of Athens. Larco, the largest nickel producer in…
