EAST MOLINE, Ill. — The 10,000 striking members of the United Auto Workers at John Deere are setting an example for working people. They’re using their union to push back against decades of attacks by bosses, fighting to end divisive…
The military trial that began Oct. 11 of Blaise Compaore and 13 others for the Oct. 15, 1987, assassination of Thomas Sankara, then president of Burkina Faso, and the overthrow of the popular revolution he led, is increasing interest in…
Statement by Róger Calero, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New York mayor, Oct. 19. The boss press is taking note of the growing number of strikes today — not to spread the word about these fights, but to alert the…
OAKLAND, Calif. — Some 700 members of Local 39 of the International Union of Operating Engineers continue to maintain picket lines around the clock at 24 Kaiser hospitals in Northern California. The strikers are demanding respect and a contract that…
By a 90% margin, over 10,000 United Auto Workers union members at more than a dozen John Deere plants in Iowa, Illinois and Kansas rejected a contract the agricultural-implements company bosses and union officials had agreed on. The union set…
Statement by Joanne Kuniansky, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New Jersey governor, Oct. 13. In the three weeks left before the 2021 elections, Socialist Workers Party candidates will present a program for the working class to defend our interests and…
Maurice Williams, a former member and longtime friend of the Socialist Workers Party, died Oct. 5 from COVID complications in the UAB Hospital in Birmingham. He worked at U.S. Steel in Fairfield, Alabama, for over a dozen years where he…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Just after midnight Oct. 4 nearly 300 members of Local 252G of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union walked out at Kellogg’s plant here. Some 1,400 workers are on strike nationwide at the…
BURTON LATIMER, England — Maintenance engineers at Weetabix breakfast cereal manufacturing plants are fighting attacks on their schedules and wages. Members of the Unite union just concluded the third of 11 planned weekly two-day work stoppages Oct. 6. “The company…
