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Campaign to expand reach of ‘Militant,’ books, SWP fund October 2 – November 23 (week six)

Kellogg’s workers strike for ‘Equal pay for equal work!’

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — The Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union negotiating committee voted down a Nov. 4 “last, best and final” set of contract demands from Kellogg’s bosses. Since Oct. 5, 1,400 union members have been…

Correction

The photo caption on the Kaiser workers’ protest in issue no. 42 should have identified Jenny Wong Swanson as a shop steward in the United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals.

Guantánamo trial exposes brutality of CIA torture

In testimony before a sentencing jury of eight senior military officers Oct. 28, Majid Khan read a statement in court detailing his personal experiences being tortured by the CIA. Khan has been imprisoned for 15 years by the U.S. government…

We need our own party, a labor party

Statement by John Studer, Socialist Workers Party national campaign director, Nov. 10. The only party that told the truth in the 2021 elections about how working people can fight back against mounting attacks we face today was the Socialist Workers…

Women in Benin win right to choose abortion

After lengthy debate, Benin’s parliament voted Oct. 20 to decriminalize abortion during the first trimester of pregnancy. If ratified by the constitutional court, Benin will become the first country in West Africa to legalize a woman’s right to choose to…

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

October 2 - November 23 (week five)

Solidarity with striking miners at Warrior Met!

Join fight against court ban on right to picket

NEW YORK — Led by a contingent of miners from the more than seven-month-long strike at Warrior Met Coal in Brookwood, Alabama, over 400 people marched here Nov. 4 to support the strikers and to protest an Oct. 27 court…

Deere strikers: End divisive two-tier, raise all our wages

WATERLOO, Iowa — United Auto Workers members on strike at John Deere plants in Iowa, Illinois and Kansas, and distribution centers in Denver and Atlanta, rejected the bosses’ second contract proposal Nov. 2. While it contained a higher wage offer…

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

The Militant and books by Socialist Workers Party leaders and other revolutionaries are getting around among working people. Strikers on picket lines say they appreciate the paper’s accurate coverage of their struggles and the news it brings them of other…