As we go to press . . . On Oct. 27 Richard Rich, a member of UAW Local 79, was hit by a car and killed as he crossed over to join the picket line at the Deere parts distribution…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — “This is my first strike,” Gerald Lawrence told this Militant worker-correspondent on the Kellogg’s picket line here Oct. 22. He has worked at the cereal plant for two years. “We’ve gotten so much support! At first I…
With the 2021 elections just days away, the Militant urges readers to campaign for and vote for the Socialist Workers Party candidates and join in the fight to advance the party’s working-class program, which the SWP fights for 365 days…
For 25 years the United Nations has hosted periodic conferences on climate change, where rival government leaders pose as self-righteous defenders of the environment. These capitalist regimes compete ruthlessly to advance their interests while perpetuating the fraud their goal is…
Groups organized and financed by the U.S. government have announced plans for public actions in several provinces in Cuba Nov. 15, pushing the slander that Cuba is a brutal “dictatorship.” Government officials denied the request for march permits, pointing out…
“I wish I had a union at my workplace,” Stephen Hammond told Róger Calero when the Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of New York City knocked on his door in Middletown, New York, Oct. 17. “The little man has…
Rising prices, especially on food, energy, rent and other basic necessities, are eating away at the living standards of working people, hitting those with the lowest income the hardest. As more unionists strike for higher wages and better conditions and…
ALBANY, N.Y. — A meeting here celebrated the life and political contributions of Tim Craine, a supporter of the Socialist Workers Party. Craine died Sept. 25 from leukemia at age 77. Fifty people from around the region attended the Oct.…
OAKLAND, Calif. — Over 30 people came to an Oct. 15 Militant Labor Forum here on “The Rise of Industrial Union Struggles: Prospects for the Working Class and Building the Socialist Workers Party Today,” featuring John Studer, SWP National Committee…
DALLAS — The 650 members of United Steelworkers Local 13-243 locked out by ExxonMobil in Beaumont, Texas, overwhelmingly rejected the company’s six-year contract proposal Oct. 19. “This shows we are still together, we are one group,” USW staff representative Bryan…
