Steelworkers strike ArcelorMittal plant in Ohio

Vol. 90/No. 12 - March 30, 2026

SHELBY, Ohio — Some 450 United Steelworkers members at the ArcelorMittal Tubular Products plant here have been on strike since Jan. 13 fighting demands by the company to limit health care for workers’ spouses and change their work schedule in…


Support fight by Haitians for TPS protection!

Vol. 90/No. 12 - March 30, 2026
Support fight by Haitians for TPS protection!

WASHINGTON — At a press conference and rally in front of the U.S. Supreme Court building here March 17, Faith in Action Executive Director Bishop Dwayne Royster, above, called for the court to uphold Temporary Protected Status for some 350,000…


Protests in Montreal, Seattle hit US oil blockade of Cuba

Vol. 90/No. 12 - March 30, 2026

MONTREAL — “As a labor union, we must support the Cuban people,” said Chantal Ide, general secretary of the Montreal Metropolitan Council of the National Trade Unions Confederation (CSN), at a conference to support Cuba at the union’s offices here…



Moscow bombs Ukraine miners, uses its troops as cannon fodder

Vol. 90/No. 12 - March 30, 2026
Toll on workers, oppressed nationalities in uniform in Russian army since all-out invasion by Moscow began Feb. 24, 2022. Casualties now regularly outstrip recruitment efforts.

Ukrainian working people are determined to continue fighting to defend their country’s sovereignty, despite Moscow’s airstrikes causing blackouts in cities across Ukraine during the depths of winter. Four years after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his war of conquest, Moscow…


March 8 protest for women’s rights in Ukraine

Vol. 90/No. 11 - March 23, 2026
March 8 protest for women’s rights in Ukraine

Over 3,000 women marched through central Kyiv March 8 on International Women’s Day for the first time since Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began four years ago. They rejected a proposed bill drawn up behind closed doors by Ukraine’s parliament…


Refinery workers fight for contract

Vol. 90/No. 11 - March 23, 2026

MARTINEZ, Calif. — “Fair contract now!” demanded dozens of process operators and maintenance workers, members of United Steelworkers Local 5, who rallied in front of the Marathon biodiesel refinery here March 3. Criff Reyes, an operator and Marathon Local 5…


SWP candidates speak out against US war on Iran, Cuba blockade

Vol. 90/No. 11 - March 23, 2026

Around the country Socialist Workers Party candidates are speaking out against Washington’s bombardment of Iran and its mounting threats against the Cuban Revolution. They’re explaining that the working class can prevent the rulers’ march toward a third world war by…


High school students in Illinois protest ICE raids, deportations

Vol. 90/No. 11 - March 23, 2026

PARK RIDGE, Ill. — A spirited student walkout at East Maine High School here drew some 100 participants March 3. Many held homemade signs as they marched through the neighborhood to protest immigration raids and deportations. Some participated in their…


SWP campaign kicks off in new Pittsburgh headquarters

Vol. 90/No. 11 - March 23, 2026
SWP campaign kicks off in new Pittsburgh headquarters

PITTSBURGH — Tony Lane, Socialist Workers Party candidate for lieutenant governor in Pennsylvania, speaking, and Sergio Zambrana, SWP candidate for Congress in the 12th District, formally kicked off their campaigns here March 7, at a meeting in the party’s new…