United Auto Workers members on strike at Volvo truck plant in Dublin, Virginia, June 27.

Autoworkers stand up to Volvo truck bosses

Fight to close wage, benefit gap for new hires

Some 2,900 United Auto Workers Local 2069 members voted down a new tentative agreement with Volvo truck bosses July 9 — the third time angry union members have rejected deals they consider insufficient this year. Since the vote the striking…


Help take SWP campaign out to working people far and wide

SWP campaigners, from left, Dave Perry, Ned Measel and Samir Hazboun talk politics with Ralph Robinson Jr., a Kroger store worker and member of UFCW union, in Cincinnati July 10.

“The Socialist Workers Party’s International Active Workers Conference July 22-24 will be a springboard for campaigns led by the 20 candidates the party has endorsed in the 2021 elections,” John Studer, SWP national campaign director, told the Militant. “We will…


Protest hits Jew-hatred, backs Israel’s right to exist

WASHINGTON — Over 1,000 people joined the July 11 “No Fear: A Rally in Solidarity with the Jewish People” here. The protest was called following a spate of anti-Jewish assaults in May. There were more than 1,200 incidents of antisemitic…




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Socialist Workers Party leadership sets course ahead

Adopts course to build union solidarity • defend constitutional freedoms • fight for wages, hours, job conditions that prevent families in working class from being torn apart • defend Cuba’s socialist revolution and its example in the U.S. and world over
International Educational Conference in Oberlin, Ohio, June 8-10, brought together over 330 people for reports, discussion on communist program, continuity and activities. Right, SWP literature table during conference.
OBERLIN, Ohio — “The sweeping indictment of Donald Trump under the Espionage Act by President Joseph…






Cuba and Chernobyl

This Cuban documentary produced in 2006 tells the story of the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe in Ukraine and Cuba’s exemplary internationalist medical program that treated more than 25,000 victims.