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Campaign to expand reach of Militant,’ books, fund April 4 – June 2 (final chart)

SWP ‘stimulus’ appeal over $105,000 and growing

In the past week “stimulus” appeal contributions to the Socialist Workers Party reached $105,700 from 94 contributors with 10 new people in the last week. The total continues to grow. “I am so happy to be sending my contribution to…

‘Militant’ drive goes over the top as protests and workers’ fights spread

Participants in rapidly growing protests around the country against the cop killing of George Floyd are buying up copies of the Militant newspaper and subscribing, purchasing books by Socialist Workers Party leaders and other revolutionaries, and contributing to the Militant…

Workers resist clampdown on protests by gov’t in Chile

“The company, the supervisors, the government authorities, the police, the virus and the rain are all against us,” said Claudio Higueras Osorio, union president and one of nearly 500 workers on strike at Promasa, a lumber company in Los Ángeles,…

Yakima fruit packers fight for wages, hours, safety

YAKIMA, Wash. — Fruit packing plant workers continue their weekslong strikes for higher wages and safer working conditions at Columbia Reach Pack here and at Matson Fruit in Selah, Washington. Strikers at Matson returned to work after the bosses said…

Defend jobs, wages, working conditions!

Alyson Kennedy, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for president, issued the following statement June 3. Malcolm Jarrett is the party’s candidate for vice president. From strikes by thousands of autoworkers at Nissan in Spain fighting to keep their jobs, to…

Demand freedom for Jalil Muntaqim now

Former Black Panther Jalil Muntaqim, who has been imprisoned for 49 years, was rushed to the hospital from the Sullivan Correctional Facility in Fallsburg, New York, May 25 after testing positive for COVID-19. His blood oxygen level was at a…

Back fights to defend wages, jobs, working conditions!

Workers are increasingly taking action today to defend their wages, working conditions and dignity: from thousands of autoworkers on strike at Nissan in Spain and Renault in France over having jobs eliminated; to fruit packers out for better pay and…

25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

June 19, 1995 MONTREAL — Protests involving thousands of working people are being organized almost every day since the Quebec government announced plans May 11 to close nine hospitals in the Montreal area. Close to 1,600 beds are slated to…

Crimean Tatars mark 1944 mass deportation, Moscow occupation

On May 18 a group of Crimean Tatars put on trial by Moscow on trumped-up terrorism charges staged a daring protest during a military court hearing in Rostov-on-Don in Russia. Placed behind a glass cage for the hearing, the seven…