SWP: Building solidarity helps boost working class struggle

Vol. 83/No. 37 - October 14, 2019
UAW picket line at GM plant in Arlington, Texas, Sept. 28. From left, striker Scott Rigney; Malcolm Jarrett, SWP candidate for Pittsburgh City Council; striker Chris Roberts; and Alyson Kennedy, SWP 2016 presidential candidate. Working-class solidarity boosts struggle.

“We came here to be in solidarity with the fight pressing for Amber Guyger to be convicted and jailed for killing Botham Jean,” Malcolm Jarrett, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Pittsburgh City Council told Shelia Bennett, one of the many…


UK rulers move to stop ‘Brexit’ as Johnson seeks US trade bloc

Vol. 83/No. 37 - October 14, 2019

LONDON — Prime Minister Boris Johnson is shifting his minority government towards a closer trade and foreign policy bloc with Washington and away from the European Union, as conflicts sharpen with opponents of all stripes who are determined that the…



Drive to expand reach of ‘Militant,’ revolutionary books

Vol. 83/No. 37 - October 14, 2019

Starting Saturday, Oct. 5, the Militant  is launching a nine-week drive to expand the readership of the paper and of books by Socialist Workers Party leaders and other revolutionaries internationally. The drive has an international goal of 1,100 subscriptions and…


Climate change panic fuels Dutch gov’t attack on farmers

Vol. 83/No. 37 - October 14, 2019

Thousands of farmers organized tractor convoys from across the Netherlands to the Hague Oct. 1, protesting a government report that blames them and their livestock for fouling the air. “No farmers, no food,” read their placards. Farmers are fed up…


Castro: Coup opened door to US invasion of Grenada

Vol. 83/No. 37 - October 14, 2019

Fidel Castro: Nothing Can Stop the Course of History, one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for October, is a wide-ranging interview by Jeffrey M. Elliot and Mervyn M. Dymally with the central leader of the Cuban Revolution. The excerpts…


Working people need their own party

Vol. 83/No. 37 - October 14, 2019

As growing evidence points to a slowdown in the world capitalist economy, no ruling class around the world has any solution to defending their profits and national interests other than through currency, trade and military conflicts — and above all…


Oberlin College keeps up drive to crush the Gibsons

Vol. 83/No. 37 - October 14, 2019

Despite a unanimous jury verdict finding Oberlin College and Dean of Students Meredith Raimondo guilty of libeling father and son Allyn W. and David Gibson, and their bakery, as racist, officials of the liberal arts school continue to go after…


Calif. sheet metal workers walk out over low pay, health care

Vol. 83/No. 37 - October 14, 2019

STOCKTON, Calif. — More than 250 members of the Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers Local 104 on strike against Simpson Strong-Tie here overwhelmingly voted down what workers said was the company’s “last, best and final contract offer” Sept.…


Steelworkers in British Columbia strike Western Forest Products

Vol. 83/No. 37 - October 14, 2019

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Some 2,600 loggers and sawmill workers who are members of United Steelworkers Local 1-1937 have been winning solidarity in their strike against Western Forest Products. The unionists, who walked out July 1, are fighting concessions demanded…