With one week left, ‘Militant’ renewal drive is over the top

Vol. 86/No. 7 - February 21, 2022
SWP campaigner Leroy Watson, left, spoke to train car repairman William Robinson in Broadview, Illinois, Feb. 6. He renewed Militant subscription, looks for further discussions.

As we go into the final week of the international drive to expand the long-term readership of the Militant, supporters worldwide are poised to meet and exceed their goals. Overall, we’re already over the top, winning 310 renewals, 10 over…


SWP: ‘Combat Jew-hatred wherever it raises its head’

Vol. 86/No. 7 - February 21, 2022
Joanne Kuniansky, SWP candidate for US Congress in New Jersey, carries party placard: “It’s not ‘hate,’ it’s Jew-hatred!” in 2020 New York “No Hate, No Fear” rally that drew 25,000.

UNION CITY, N.J. — “The Socialist Workers Party and its candidates join working-class struggles against attacks by bosses and their parties, and present a course to lead workers to take power into our own hands,” Joanne Kuniansky, the SWP’s candidate…


Website upgrade eases search for revolutionary books

Vol. 86/No. 6 - February 14, 2022

Recent enhancements to the website of Pathfinder Press — www.pathfinderpress.com — make it easier for working people and youth to find their way to books presenting the lessons of 175 years of revolutionary working-class struggle, through the eyes of participants,…


Actions protest U.S. economic war against Cuba

Vol. 86/No. 6 - February 14, 2022

Nearly 100 people, a majority Cubans and Cuban Americans, gathered Jan. 30 at City Hall in Miami to demand an end to the U.S. embargo against Cuba. A close to 100-car caravan then circled through the Little Havana neighborhood for…


History of the fight for Ukrainian independence

Vol. 86/No. 6 - February 14, 2022

With the threat of Moscow’s troops crossing the border against the people of Ukraine — launching the first serious land war on European soil in decades — class conscious workers worldwide side with the long fight of Ukrainian toilers for…


Cops in North Carolina kill 2 unarmed men

Vol. 86/No. 6 - February 14, 2022

RALEIGH, N.C. — Two deadly police shootings of unarmed men in North Carolina within days of each other provoked an outcry and protests demanding the facts about what really transpired. In Fayetteville, on Jan. 8, off-duty Cumberland County Deputy Sheriff…


Chevron refinery workers rally as contract expiration nears

Vol. 86/No. 6 - February 14, 2022
Chevron oil workers, members of USW Local 5, rally outside gate of company’s oil refinery in Richmond, California, Jan. 27 in fight for new contract with wage raise to cover rising prices.

RICHMOND, Calif. — “Power in solidarity” read one of the signs carried by the more than 100 members of United Steelworkers Local 5 outside the main gate of the Chevron oil refinery here Jan. 27. The maintenance workers and process…


BNSF bosses get court to outlaw national rail strike

Vol. 86/No. 6 - February 14, 2022

SEATTLE — Bosses on the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway, the second largest of the seven Class I lines in the U.S., announced in early January that as of Feb. 1 they would unilaterally impose “Hi-Viz,” a new and…


New union votes set at Amazon Alabama, New York warehouses

Vol. 86/No. 6 - February 14, 2022

The National Labor Relations Board has set a second union election at the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, to begin Feb. 4, ruling the notoriously anti-union company, owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos, intimidated workers and corrupted the earlier vote. The…


Steelworkers strike enters 4th month in West Virginia

Rail track workers join picket line in solidarity
Vol. 86/No. 6 - February 14, 2022
Steelworkers picket Special Metals in Huntington, West Virginia, Jan. 22, fighting bosses’ push to jack up health insurance costs and refusal to raise pay. Rail workers joined the picket line.

“Union power! Who’s got the power? We got the power! Union power!” These were the chants on the picket line in front of Special Metals in Huntington, West Virginia, Jan. 22. Some 450 members of United Steelworkers Local 40 on…