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Socialist Workers Party Fund Drive Oct. 5 – Dec. 10 (Week 2)

Fall Campaign to sell Militant subscriptions and books Oct. 5 – Dec. 10 (Week 2)

US rulers step up economic war against Cuban Revolution

The U.S. government announced new measures Oct. 18 that step up its nearly 60-year-long economic war on the Cuban Revolution. Elliot Abrams, U.S. special envoy for Venezuela, told Reuters Oct. 9, “We’re always looking to ways to squeeze [Cuba] because…

Catalonia protests hit jailing of independence leaders

Half a million protesters marched from all across Catalonia to converge in the capital Barcelona Oct. 18 after Spain’s Supreme Court four days earlier sentenced nine Catalan parliamentarians to up to 13 years in prison for “sedition.” This comes on…

Socialist Workers Party says workers need our own party

PITTSBURGH —“From the United Auto Workers union members on strike against General Motors, and the UAW Mack Truck workers, to the Asarco copper miners in Arizona, we see the beginnings of a new uptick in the struggles of working people,”…

Protest anti-Semitic attack on German synagogue

Two people were killed in a failed anti-Semitic assault on a synagogue Oct. 9 in Halle, Germany, on Yom Kippur, considered by Jews to be one of the most sacred days of the year. Heavily armed Stephan Balliet, 27, from…

Copper miners reject Asarco’s ‘insulting’ offer, shut down mines

“We don’t like going on strike, but when we get pushed against the wall, we are going to take action and we did,” United Steelworkers spokesperson Manny Armenta told the press outside the Asarco mine in Sahuarita, near Tucson, Oct.…

‘Standing up, fighting back helps unite working people’

MONTREAL, Quebec — “The heart of a union is workers’ activity in defense of our rights,” Alyson Kennedy, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for president in 2016, told striking members of United Steelworkers Local 9414 Oct. 10, when she visited…

Lift US sanctions on NKorea! For a nuclear-free peninsula!

Washington should immediately and unconditionally “lift all sanctions against the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea” and “live up to the White House pledge last year to halt joint war games with Seoul,” wrote Steve Clark, Oct. 10, for the Socialist…

Georgia cop faces prison in shooting of Anthony Hill

DECATUR, Ga. — After six days of deliberation, jurors Oct. 14 found former DeKalb County cop Robert Olsen guilty of aggravated assault and other lesser charges in the 2015 killing of Anthony Hill. The 27-year-old African American veteran of the…