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Campaign to expand reach of ‘Militant,’ books, SWP fund

2024 US election reflects blows of capitalist crisis on working class

Workers need our own party to fight for power

The 2024 U.S. presidential election and its outcome reflected the growing dissatisfaction of tens of millions of working people with the economic and social conditions and growing threats of war they and their families have faced for many years. These…

SWP in final weeks of ‘Militant,’ books, party fund drive

CHICAGO — In the final week before the vote for the U.S. presidency, Socialist Workers Party members continued to find interest in and support for the party’s working-class program and course. They’re taking steps toward successfully completing the eight-week campaign…

Eaton Aerospace workers keep up strike over pay, pensions

JACKSON, Mich. — The 525 members of United Auto Workers Local 475 remain on the picket line at Eaton Aerospace here, after rejecting a second contract proposal more than a month into their strike. “The new pay offer was only…

SWP campaign shows way forward for working people

Fruit: ‘Today’s strikes key to building the labor movement PITTSBURGH — “The presidential campaign of the Socialist Workers Party is the only voice representing the interests of our class — and I mean the working class worldwide,” Rachele Fruit, Socialist…

Meeting to celebrate life, political contributions of Jim Altenberg

OAKLAND, Calif. — A meeting to celebrate the life and political contributions of Jim Altenberg will take place in San Leandro Nov. 16. Altenberg, 70, a member of the Socialist Workers Party for more than 20 years and a party…

W.Va. IAM members strike at Union Carbide, win contract

SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. — After 10 days on strike at the Union Carbide plant here, members of International Association of Machinists Local 598 won an improved contract Oct. 31.  The 77 workers walked off the job Oct. 21 in a…

IBEW union workers win vote in Siemens Texas plant

FORT WORTH, Texas — The Nov. 1 election victory for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers union at the Siemens plant here “was a landslide. An absolute landslide,” Joshua Worthey, business manager and financial secretary of IBEW Local 220, told…

Support ‘New York Times’ tech workers strike!

NEW YORK — Many of the over 600 tech workers on strike at the New York Times picketed outside the paper’s headquarters Nov. 5 to demand equitable pay increases with similar workers at other media outlets, as well as stronger…

US rulers turn FBI into anti-labor political police operation

50 Years of Covert Operations in the US: Washington’s Political Police and the American Working Class by Larry Seigle, Farrell Dobbs and Steve Clark is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for November. It traces the U.S. capitalist rulers’…