W.Va. workers proud of victory of teachers strike there

Vol. 82/No. 19 - May 14, 2018

BLACKSVILLE, W.Va. — A team of Socialist Workers Party members and supporters returned to the coal mining region in West Virginia April 27-30 to speak with miners and other workers the party had met during the recent school workers strike…


Workers are starting to act up today. Join in!

Vol. 82/No. 19 - May 14, 2018

The strikes and protests by teachers and other school workers from West Virginia to Oklahoma, Kentucky, Colorado, Arizona and now North Carolina is something new. We have not seen a working-class fight like this in decades. “It’s a class of…


Nicaraguan workers protest social security cuts, censorship

Vol. 82/No. 19 - May 14, 2018

After five days of protests by tens of thousands of students, workers and others across the country, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega revoked his April 16 directive to raise social security payroll taxes and cut benefits. But even after the reversal…


Korea talks show prospects for nuclear-free peninsula

Vol. 82/No. 19 - May 14, 2018

Kim Jong Un, the leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in the North, met South Korean President Moon Jae-in April 27, the first summit between leaders of the two countries since 2007. The meeting — and more to…



The ‘Militant,’ SWP books welcomed at protest actions

Vol. 82/No. 19 - May 14, 2018

DENVER — “I’m interested in a fighting labor movement. These books and your newspaper look like they point the way,” Eddie Asher told Socialist Workers Party member Jacquie Henderson at the thousands-strong rally of teachers, school workers, bus drivers and…


Thousands march on May Day, demanding, ‘No deportations!’

Socialist Workers Party says: ‘Amnesty now!’
Vol. 82/No. 19 - May 14, 2018
Farmworkers, unionists and others joined May Day action in Yakima, Washington, May 1.

“We are not criminals, we are the workforce,” said the sign Maria Cuevas carried at this year’s May 1 International Workers Day march in Yakima, Washington. Underneath she pasted nearly two dozen photos of immigrant workers picking crops, driving tractors…


Rap artist Meek Mill freed — case exposes US criminal ‘justice’ system

Vol. 82/No. 19 - May 14, 2018

PHILADELPHIA — Meek Mill, an internationally known African-American rap artist, was released on bail from the state penitentiary in Chester April 24. Upon hearing the rumor he would be freed, hundreds gathered outside the prison, including nearby neighbors, some holding…


New Zealand nurses reject contract, protest work conditions

Vol. 82/No. 19 - May 14, 2018

AUCKLAND, New Zealand — Hundreds of nurses and other health care workers joined protests outside hospitals and clinics across New Zealand over two weeks starting April 9. They are demanding increased staffing, higher wages and an end to onerous working…


Contract teachers at Canada’s York University strike over jobs

Vol. 82/No. 19 - May 14, 2018

TORONTO — For the second time in three years, some 3,000 York University teaching assistants, contract faculty and graduate assistants, members of Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 3903, went on strike March 5 for higher wages and job security.…