How can workers strengthen the union movement today?

Vol. 88/No. 7 - February 19, 2024
UAW picket at Stellantis plant in Morrow, Georgia, Sept. 22. Some 40,000 autoworkers walked out at GM, Ford and Stellantis for up to six weeks in 2023 contract fight. More workers are using unions to resist bosses’ attacks, while percentage of workers in unions continues to fall.

The U.S. Labor Department reported last month that union membership dropped last year to 10%. At the same time, more workers are using unions to resist the employers’ assaults. As the Socialist Workers Party 2022 resolution explains, “The low point…


Che fought to extend socialist revolution in Latin America

Vol. 88/No. 7 - February 19, 2024
Fighters in 1952 Bolivian national revolution. Prerevolutionary crises in Latin America led Che Guevara, Bolivian fighters to try to open socialist revolution across the continent in 1966.

The Bolivian Diary of Ernesto Che Guevara is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for February. Guevara, an Argentinian who helped lead the Cuban Revolution, set out in Bolivia to forge a continent-wide revolutionary movement of workers and peasants.…


Grocery prices bite despite Biden claims inflation is over

Vol. 88/No. 7 - February 19, 2024

Liberals desperate to boost President Joseph Biden’s reelection hopes claim there is an unprecedented “upswing” in the U.S. economy underway today. At a meeting of the United Auto Workers in Warren, Michigan, Feb. 1, Biden bragged the U.S. has “the…


Oakland forum protests attacks on actions against Jew-hatred

Vol. 88/No. 7 - February 19, 2024
“We’re organizing to bring a stop to violence against Jews,” said Margaret Trowe, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Congress, at Militant Labor Forum in Oakland, California, Jan. 28. Faith Meltzer, left, was assaulted by pro-Hamas thugs Jan. 6 in El Cerrito.

OAKLAND, Calif. — The Jan. 28 Militant Labor Forum here featured a speakout against recent attacks on protesters in El Cerrito who defend the right of Israel to exist as a refuge for Jews and a discussion on how to…


‘Militant’ finds audience among Ohio rail workers

Vol. 88/No. 7 - February 19, 2024

“I find that paper very interesting,” rail worker Anthony Veach told Socialist Workers Party members Jacquie Henderson and Anthony Dutrow as they were introducing the Militant and Pathfinder books to workers going in to work at the CSX yard plant…


UK unions march to protest against new anti-union law

Vol. 88/No. 7 - February 19, 2024
Members of Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen, the U.K. train drivers’ union, picket Manchester Piccadilly Jan. 31, protesting new law limiting impact of strike action.

CHELTENHAM, England — Some 5,000 workers marched behind union banners here Jan. 27 to protest against a new anti-union government law, the “Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act.” The law was passed to cripple the impact of union strike action. Enacted…


25, 50, and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 88/No. 7 - February 19, 2024

February 22, 1999 NEW YORK — Four New York City cops killed Amadou Diallo, a 22-year-old vendor from Guinea, here Feb. 4 in a fusillade of 41 bullets. The unarmed man was struck by 19 bullets as he stood in…


Israel’s blows against Hamas open road to unite Arabs, Jews

Vol. 88/No. 7 - February 19, 2024
Protest in Gaza against Hamas near Al Aqsa Hospital in Deir al Balah Jan. 24. Demonstrators chanted, “The people want to end the war!” “We want to go to our homes” and “Yes to handing over the hostages.” Israel’s blows against Hamas are opening space for Palestinians in Gaza to speak out.

The Israeli army continues to advance against Hamas in Gaza. A decisive defeat of Hamas — which is armed, financed and trained by the reactionary bourgeois regime in Iran — would be a blow to forces that promote Jew-hatred, from…



Fight for workers control of production

Vol. 88/No. 7 - February 19, 2024

Fighting for workers to take control of production and transportation, including the railroads, is vital to protecting our lives and limbs and extending that protection to all who live near the plants, rail tracks and mines where we work. In…