Fight FBI harassment in Puerto Rico!

Vol. 86/No. 35 - September 26, 2022

FBI harassment of participants in the Juan Rius Rivera Brigade from Puerto Rico and other opponents of the U.S. economic war on Cuba is a serious threat to rights working people need in both Puerto Rico and the U.S. Labor…


Rail workers battle bosses over deadly job conditions

Bosses threaten lockout, demand gov’t intervene
Vol. 86/No. 35 - September 26, 2022
Rail workers rally Sept. 10 in Toledo, part of nationwide fight for new contract, including end to attacks on crew size, unlivable work schedules, and for pay hikes to keep up with inflation.

LINCOLN, Neb. — Amid ongoing negotiations in Washington for a national contract between the main rail unions and bosses, two rail workers were killed on the job Sept. 8. The two were on a Union Pacific freight train that collided…


Ukrainian forces push Putin back! Support Ukraine independence!

Vol. 86/No. 35 - September 26, 2022
Russian armored vehicles abandoned in river by demoralized troops in Kharkiv region fleeing Ukraine offensive. Russian-led forces, deeply dispirited by lack of support from Ukrainians in cities they occupied, departed in disarray, surrendered or deserted.

Ukrainian government forces are driving back the Russian rulers’ attempts to conquer and crush the Ukraine people and its independence. Kyiv’s forces broke through demoralized Russian front-line troops in northeast Ukraine Sept. 6, who fled in disarray. In a week,…


White House war on constitutional freedoms is key issue in US today

Vol. 86/No. 35 - September 26, 2022

Constitutional freedoms won in blood that are essential for working people are under a concerted assault today from President Joseph Biden’s White House, using the Justice Department, anti-working-class laws like the Espionage Act, and the FBI, Washington’s political police, to…


Build solidarity with workers’ struggles!

Vol. 86/No. 34 - September 19, 2022

Statement issued Sept. 6 by Joanne Kuniansky, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Congress from New Jersey. Thousands of workers came together in Labor Day actions yesterday. Many featured workers involved in strike battles seeking to push back dangerous working…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 86/No. 34 - September 19, 2022

September 22, 1997 The statement below was issued by Janet Post, Socialist Workers candidate for Mayor of Miami, and Rollande Girard, candidate for Miami Commissioner, District 1. The Socialist Workers candidates condemn the September 4 bombings of three hotels and…


Fidel: ‘Cuba never had Stalinist purges, forced collectivization’

Vol. 86/No. 34 - September 19, 2022
Cuban workers in volunteer construction brigade build child care center in 1980s. Castro said voluntary labor was the “brainchild” of Che Guevara. Castro and Guevara sought to put Cuba’s socialist revolution in hands of workers and farmers, opposite class course to Stalinism or Gorbachev’s “perestroika.”

This week — following the death of former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev — we are featuring excerpts from Fidel Castro that help explain the course adopted by Cuba’s Marxist leadership to rectify problems in advancing the socialist revolution, as contrasted…


Build solidarity with rail workers fight! Help strengthen, expand the labor movement!

Rail workers fight for end to deadly schedules, crew size
Vol. 86/No. 34 - September 19, 2022
Over 150 rail workers and supporters rallied July 30 in Galesburg, Illinois, in fight over national rail contract, including against draconian attendance policies and one-person “crews.”

CHICAGO — Mario Aurelio Navarro, a 49-year-old experienced conductor, was killed in a derailment in a Union Pacific rail yard in El Paso, Texas, Aug. 29. Two cars derailed, crushing Navarro and crashing into a neighboring backyard, rupturing a gas…


Ingredion workers rally, win wide support in Iowa strike

Vol. 86/No. 34 - September 19, 2022
Sept. 1 rally of Ingredion workers in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on strike since Aug. 1. Some 122 members of Bakery Workers union Local 100G are fighting bosses to win contract gains.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Nearly 200 strikers, family members, fellow unionists and community supporters marched and rallied at the Ingredion plant here Sept. 1. The 122 members of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 100G at Ingredion have…