Teamsters in Indiana strike at FireKing over health coverage

Vol. 86/No. 28 - August 1, 2022
Members of Teamsters Local 69 stand firm on picket line at FireKing, in New Albany, Indiana, July 14. Working conditions, high costs for health insurance sparked first-ever strike there.

NEW ALBANY, Ind. — Spirits were high on the picket line in front of the FireKing plant here July 14 where 83 members of Teamsters Local 89 have been on strike since May 9. This Militant worker-correspondent visited the pickets…


Strikers at Case fight for pay raise, ‘rational schedule’

Vol. 86/No. 28 - August 1, 2022

STURTEVANT, Wis. — “Case is in trouble, and they know it,” said Anthony Ford, one of 1,100 workers, members of United Auto Workers Locals 180 and 807, who struck the agricultural implement giant here and in Burlington, Iowa, May 2.…


Build solidarity with UAW strikers at Case New Holland!

Vol. 86/No. 27 - July 25, 2022

Help get the word out about the strike by workers at Case New Holland widely in the labor movement and beyond! This fight by hundreds of United Auto Workers members in Iowa and Wisconsin is a fight in the interest…


UAW workers at Case strike for better pay, safer conditions

Vol. 86/No. 27 - July 25, 2022

BY NAOMI CRAINE, JOHN HAWKINS, AND LEROY WATSON BURLINGTON, Iowa —“We’re fighting for wages that will keep up with inflation, and better retirement benefits. And they don’t want to give that to us,” said Gary Binder, a worker at Case…


SWP candidates in Minneapolis speak out against antisemitic flyers

Vol. 86/No. 27 - July 25, 2022

Socialist Workers Party candidates in Minnesota issued a statement July 5 answering vile antisemitic leaflets distributed anonymously in the Highland Park neighborhood of St. Paul, near Talmud Torah’s Newman elementary school. The rightist leaflet was headlined “Every Single Aspect of…


Back Ukraine independence! Moscow’s troops out now!

Working people in Russia find ways to oppose invasion
Vol. 86/No. 27 - July 25, 2022
Russian students wore green sashes for high school graduation to show opposition to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. Dressed in black, they used peace sign in place of “0” in date. Those who saw them on street “thanked us for our position.” One said he was proud of us, they reported.

Despite significant troop losses and festering disquiet at home, Moscow continues to press its war aimed at conquering Ukraine and crushing its decadeslong battle for independence. While facing resistance in occupied areas (see article on Mariupol protest), Russian forces have…


In blow to rights, Ukraine upholds ban on Communist Party

Vol. 86/No. 27 - July 25, 2022

In a serious blow to political rights, a Ukrainian administrative court in Lviv July 5 upheld the government’s longstanding ban on the Communist Party and the Happy Ukraine Party. Both were among the 11 parties ordered shut down by President…


Constitutional right to freedom of worship is upheld by court

Vol. 86/No. 27 - July 25, 2022
Blaine amendments, laws targeting state government aid to Catholic schools, were adopted during rise of anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic bigotry in the 19th century. They are still on books in 37 states. Drawing from 1871 depicts Catholic bishops as crocodiles looking to gobble up American schoolchildren.

Two recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions protecting the constitutional right to freedom of worship are good for working people. At the same time, these rulings are attacked by liberals as reactionary and as a further reason why Democrats must win…


Protests hit Russian-occupied Mariupol over lack of water

Vol. 86/No. 27 - July 25, 2022

People living in the largely devastated outskirts of the Russian-occupied city of Mariupol erupted in a substantial protest July 8 after two pensioners died in the street trying to find drinking water. A meeting at a school in the Volonterivka…