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Fall 2018 Militant Subscription Campaign

Socialist Workers Party 2018 Fall Fund Drive

Canada postal workers strike over pay equality, health care

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Some 50,000 members of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers began a series of rotating strikes Oct. 22. One- or two-day walkouts have been organized in Montreal, Vancouver, Ottawa, Toronto, Edmonton, Calgary, Winnipeg and Halifax. The…

‘We’re working for peanuts,’ says striking bus driver in New Zealand

AUCKLAND, New Zealand — Bus drivers here and in Hamilton, members of First Union, went on strike Oct. 23, the latest in a series of walkouts over pay and conditions at bus companies nationwide. “We’re working for peanuts, it’s modern…

Amazon robots intensify the exploitation of labor

Amazon is the second-largest employer in the U.S. after Walmart and one of only two U.S. companies ever valued at over $1 trillion. It operates huge fulfillment warehouses where workers face relentless speedup and unsafe conditions amid miles of conveyor…

Marriott strikers fight bosses over wages, hours, safety

SAN FRANCISCO — UNITE HERE Local 2 President Anand Singh was the first speaker Nov. 2 when the San Francisco Board of Supervisors convened a hearing on the union’s strike of some 2,500 hotel workers at Marriott here. The strike,…

Australia: Workers march, demand end to anti-union laws

SYDNEY — Hundreds of thousands of workers rallied in cities and towns across Australia Oct. 23-24 to defend union rights and back demands for higher wages. The slogan for the nationwide rallies organized by the Australian Council of Trade Unions…

25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

November 22, 1993 Violence and lies are the stock-in-trade of the employing class. In the strike by 18,000 coal miners in seven states the bosses are exposing their true face. The frame-up is a trusted method of the coal operators.…

Join SWP taking ‘Militant’, books to working class

Millions of workers see in their own lives and lives of those they love how working people face the debilitating effects of the ongoing economic, political and moral crisis of capitalist rule. The bosses and their government have nothing to…

Workers need unions, break with bosses’ political parties

Workers, farmers seek road forward out of capitalist crisis

“The problems that the working class faces — and working farmers — are the result of the decay of the capitalist system that we live under, and that only by uniting and building a working-class movement in struggle can we…