Workers and our unions need to lead fight for jobs

Vol. 85/No. 14 - April 12, 2021
Gap between the productivity squeezed out of workers and their pay has increased dramatically since 1979, as speedup led to a nearly 70% increase in workers’ productivity, while wages rose only 11.6%. Bosses are pushing even harder under crisis conditions unfolding today.

Millions of workers have been forced into long-term joblessness by the crisis of the capitalist rulers and their profit-driven mismanagement of the coronavirus pandemic. At the same time, capitalist investors are plowing trillions of dollars into a frenzy of speculation…


Caravans, rallies worldwide say, ‘End the US embargo of Cuba!’

Vol. 85/No. 14 - April 12, 2021
Rally in Albany, New York, March 28, by participants in car caravan against U.S. economic war against Cuba. Similar caravans and rallies took place in 16 U.S. cities and 60 countries.

Thousands joined car caravans and rallies to protest the U.S. government’s economic war against Cuba in at least 16 U.S. cities and 60 countries around the world March 28. In Cuba, hundreds of cyclists and carloads of people took to…


‘Support amnesty for all immigrant workers in the US’

Vol. 85/No. 14 - April 12, 2021

The Joseph Biden administration insists that its attitude toward immigration is more “humane” than that of Donald Trump’s before it. But the fact is Biden is trying to shut the U.S. southern border as increasing numbers of migrant workers from…


SWP discusses road forward for workers in New Jersey ballot drive

Vol. 85/No. 14 - April 12, 2021
Candace Wagner, SWP candidate for New Jersey lieutenant governor, speaks with Shanice Williams March 28. Williams, a postal worker, signed to put Socialist Workers Party on ballot.

UNION CITY, N.J. — Socialist Workers Party campaign supporters continue to make steady progress toward ballot status for Joanne Kuniansky, the party’s candidate for New Jersey governor. By March 29, 914 signatures were collected toward the goal of 1,500. Petitions…


Montreal longshore workers fight for safety on the job

Vol. 85/No. 14 - April 12, 2021

MONTREAL — By an almost unanimous vote March 21 longshore workers at the Port of Montreal rejected the latest “final” concession contract demands by the Maritime Employers Association. The online strike authorization vote by members of Canadian Union of Public…


Help put SWP on NJ ballot: Give working people a voice

Vol. 85/No. 13 - April 5, 2021
“Workers need to fight for jobs, not rely on government ‘stimulus,’” Joanne Kuniansky, Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor of New Jersey, told Jamel Perry, a musician, in Irvington March 20. Perry said, “This is just hush money to try and pacify us.”

UNION CITY, N.J. — A target weekend to campaign and collect signatures to put Joanne Kuniansky, Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor, and Candace Wagner, for lieutenant governor, on the ballot in New Jersey was a big success March 20-22.…


770,000 file for unemployment in one week — Workers need jobs!

Vol. 85/No. 13 - April 5, 2021
Protest in Boston March 23 demanding hotel bosses recall workers they have laid off during COVID-19 pandemic. Nonunion Marriott Copley is one of hundreds of hotels across the country that have thrown large numbers of workers out on the street over the last year.

The Joseph Biden Democratic Party administration says it plans to follow up its coronavirus relief package of $1,400 one-time checks with a swath of proposals it says will transform the country’s crumbling infrastructure. This includes building millions of electric car…


Debate over how to answer killings targeting women at Georgia spas

Vol. 85/No. 13 - April 5, 2021

ATLANTA — On March 16 Robert Aaron Long, a 21-year-old Caucasian, shot and killed eight people at three massage spas, two in Atlanta and one in nearby Cherokee County. Six of the eight people killed were Korean- or Chinese-American women,…


SWP special ‘stimulus’ capital appeal off to strong start

Vol. 85/No. 13 - April 5, 2021

The Socialist Workers Party special “stimulus” capital appeal, for the long-term work of the party, is off to a strong start. Within a week of the government sending out the first of the most recent “stimulus” payments the fund total…