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Socialist Workers Party 2018 Fall Fund Drive (week 5)

Solidarity, struggle is road to unite the working class

SWP says ‘Build unions, chart course to take political power’

The Socialist Workers Party ran 19 candidates for U.S. Senate, governorships and other offices across the country in the 2018 midterm elections, speaking out against the capitalist rulers’ attacks on workers, farmers and others. They explained that workers need to…

US troops out of Korea, Middle East, Afghanistan!

Under Democratic and Republican presidents alike, the U.S. government has been embroiled virtually nonstop in wars to defend U.S. capitalist interests for the last 28 years. The 1990-91 Gulf War and ensuing combat that went on and off through this…

Marriott strike makes gains, picketing goes on at 19 hotels

SAN DIEGO — Workers at Marriott’s Westin San Diego Gaslamp hotel voted to accept a new contract after their more than monthlong strike here Nov. 11. The settlement came a few days after 100 strikers, members of UNITE HERE Local…

Saudi, Tehran fueled war in Yemen brings death, famine

Intensified bombing by the Saudi Arabian air force and an allied ground offensive by pro-government forces against the Houthi-held port of Hodeida in Yemen began in early November, after Washington urged its Saudi ally to hold cease-fire talks with the…

Amnesty for all immigrants in US, cancel Honduran debt to US banks

After a month on the road, more than 5,000 workers and farmers from Honduras and some from other parts of Central America have left Mexico City, heading for the U.S. border. Many workers in the U.S. have mixed feelings about…

Messages protest Florida prison censorship against the ‘Militant’

Opposition to ongoing Florida prison censorship is growing after the system’s Literature Review Committee at the end of October upheld a ban on the Sept. 17 issue of the Militant. Several groups have sent letters urging prison officials to lift…

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…