Join SWP in taking its campaign out to workers!

Vol. 82/No. 40 - October 29, 2018
Dan Fein, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Illinois governor, talks with Willie Norwood, right, in Kankakee. Bedrock of party’s campaigning is going door to door to talk with workers

The Militant calls on working people to join the Socialist Workers Party candidates campaigning up to the Nov. 6 elections. They are the only candidates who explain that working people need to break from the bosses’ political parties, the Democrats and…


Ky concrete workers strike over health care, two-tier

Vol. 82/No. 40 - October 29, 2018

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — “This strike isn’t really about wages. It’s about health insurance and being able to take care of your family,” Ed Sadler, head mechanic with 21 years at Allied Ready Mix, told the Militant as he picketed outside…


‘Working people need to organize, to build unions’

Vol. 82/No. 40 - October 29, 2018
Campaigning door to door in Woodhaven, Queens, in New York Oct. 14, Socialist Workers Party member Willie Cotton, right, speaks with an airport worker who had been involved in organizing a union at his workplace. He purchased The Clintons’ Anti-Working-Class Record, a Militant subscription, and said he wanted to talk more about unions and the party’s activities.

Supporters of the Socialist Workers Party and its candidates in the 2018 elections are campaigning on workers’ doorsteps all across the country, introducing them to the party, its program and perspectives, the Militant  and books by party leaders. They are…


Chinese gov’t arrests Marxist Society for union organizing

Vol. 82/No. 39 - October 22, 2018

Students at Peking University’s Marxist Society read and studied the writings of Karl Marx, V.I. Lenin and Mao Zedong, something that Chinese President Xi Jinping claimed during a May visit to the campus is “the foundation of China’s Communist Party.”…


‘Our revolution is a break with all previous regimes’

Vol. 82/No. 39 - October 22, 2018

The French-language edition of  We Are Heirs of the World’s Revolutions by Thomas Sankara is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for October. Sankara was the central leader of the 1983-87 popular democratic revolution in the West African country of…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 82/No. 39 - October 22, 2018

October 25, 1993 Armed rightist thugs with full backing of the country’s military, have stepped up their violent attacks aimed at preventing Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide from returning to power. Washington claims that its contribution of 600 soldiers, as part…


LA port workers fight for union, immigrant rights

Teamsters, Painters speak out against deportations
Vol. 82/No. 39 - October 22, 2018
Teamsters at Port of Los Angeles join protest at immigration detention center to support port drivers, warehouse workers, others facing deportation if Temporary Protected Status is ended.

WILMINGTON, Calif. — More than 300 port truck drivers, warehouse workers and their supporters held a rally and march in this port town Oct. 3 at the end of a three-day strike against XPO Logistics and NFI Industries. The drivers…


Letters

Vol. 82/No. 39 - October 22, 2018

Their morals and ours Thank you for the story, “Bosses Refuse Help from Locked-Out Unionists in Mass. Gas Explosions,” in the Oct. 8 issue. This is an example of why capitalists have no moral right to rule society. In 2012,…


Amnesty for immigrants! Unite, organize all workers!

Vol. 82/No. 39 - October 22, 2018

The following statement was released Oct. 10 by Dennis Richter, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Senate in California. “I’m not the immigration police,” the head of the Carpenters union recently told the press. The union doesn’t ask painters where…


Correction

Vol. 82/No. 39 - October 22, 2018

In the article “‘Anti-Gentrification Fight’ is Pretext for Attack on Art, Culture that Workers Need” in the Oct. 15 issue, Ellie Garcia was misidentified as a rail worker. She is an aerospace worker. The author, Laura Garza, is a rail…