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Campaign to expand reach of ‘Militant,’ books, SWP fund. Sept. 17 – November 15 (week six)

Back Ukraine independence! Protest Putin’s mass bombing

For over eight months, Ukrainian working people have pushed back the assault by the KGB-police-state regime of Vladimir Putin on their country’s independence. Moscow is retaliating with a brutal bombardment of Ukrainian cities and power infrastructure. After battlefield defeats, Putin’s…

Illinois ballot measure weakens the labor movement

CHICAGO — The Nov. 8 ballot in Illinois includes Amendment 1, a referendum to change the state constitution that many union and Democratic Party officials promote as a “Workers Bill of Rights.” In fact, it does nothing to advance workers’…

Signalmen vote down proposed rail contract as workers’ fight continues

LINCOLN, Neb. — “Railroad union members continue to organize protests to demonstrate their dissatisfaction with the bosses in their fight to get a contract that the membership will approve,” Jakob Forsgren, chair of local Lodge 1320 of the Brotherhood of…

Help expand the reach of the SWP and the ‘Militant’

Days before Nov. 8 elections, the Socialist Workers Party and its candidates are making a final push to reach working people with the party’s program and activities. Gabrielle Prosser, SWP candidate for governor of Minnesota, spoke at a candidates’ forum…

San Bernardino Amazon workers fight for a raise

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. —“We want safety, no retaliation,” several hundred community members and unionists chanted, joining over 100 workers from Amazon’s largest air freight facility on the West Coast, called KSBD Oct. 14. They carried signs saying, “Prime shoppers beware,…

Join protests to oppose US economic war on Cuba!

Demonstrations and other activities will take place in more than a dozen cities across the U.S., Canada and the U.K. from Oct. 28 to Nov. 3 calling for the end to Washington’s more than 60-year-long economic war on Cuba. The…

Back Ukraine people’s fight for sovereignty

Statement by John Studer, Socialist Workers Party national campaign director, issued Oct. 26. Studer made three reporting trips to Ukraine in 2014 and 2015. Socialist Workers Party candidates present an independent working-class foreign policy that starts from the common class…

Iran protests expand, win support, challenge regime

Workers’ strikes add momentum to the protests

Teachers across Iran joined three days of mourning and then held “sit-ins” at elementary and high schools across the country Oct. 23 and 24 in response to the call by the Coordinating Council of Iranian Teachers Trade Union Associations “to…

Ukraine pushes Moscow back, defending its independence!

Eight months into its invasion of Ukraine, Moscow is resorting to the systematic bombing of civilian areas of Ukraine’s major cities and the destruction of vital infrastructure, as a Ukrainian counteroffensive threatens to retake the city of Kherson in the…