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June 11, 2018

In defense of the US working class

SWP leader at Havana event answers question: ‘Can working people in US make a socialist revolution?’
Striking teachers at West Virginia Capitol in Charleston, Feb. 26, 2018, as one of most significant labor battles in U.S. in decades exploded. Teachers and other school workers went on strike statewide, winning support from students, parents, churches and other unions. Strikes and protests spread to Oklahoma, Kentucky, Arizona, Colorado, and North Carolina. “What happened there is a living refutation of the portrait of working-class bigotry and ‘backwardness’ painted by middle class liberals and much of the radical left,” says Socialist Workers Party leader Mary-Alice Waters.

…— on the land and in jobs from coal mines, oil refineries and railroads, to garment shops, construction sites, slaughterhouses, auto assembly lines, warehouses, and retail giants like Walmart —…




May 25, 2020

Fight for jobs! Act now to protect wages, conditions

Protests spread against attacks by bosses, gov’t
New Orleans “hoppers,” workers who jump on and off sanitation trucks to collect garbage, went on strike May 5, protesting unsafe conditions, long hours and low wages.

…bosses announced they will cut 12,000 workers. Similar deep cuts are in store at other airlines, plane builders like Boeing and General Electric, in auto and steel plants, and more,…


September 21, 2020

25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

…Motors, the world’s largest manufacturer, bringing to a head two months of fruitless contract negotiations between the 1.4-million member United Auto Workers and the “Big-3” auto producers — Ford, Chrysler…


September 28, 2020

25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

…“unauthorized” strikes are holding firm despite terrific pressure not only from the auto barons and the government conciliators, but from the International as well. Any such strikes will interfere with…


December 28, 2020

Bob Cantrick, communist cadre for over 5 decades

Above, Steve Penner, organizer of Communist League in Canada, speaks at Dec. 5 celebration of political life of Bob Cantrick held in Montreal. “Bob was won to the communist movement in the late 1960s under the impact of the Black rights, women’s liberation, anti-Vietnam War movements, and the Cuban Revolution, which points the way forward toward humanity’s socialist future,” Penner said. Inset, Cantrick working at Marley Cooling Tower in Kansas City, Missouri in 1990.

…place the overwhelming majority of its members in industry, to carry out union and political work alongside other workers in auto plants, steel mills, rail yards, coal mines, garment shops,…


June 28, 2021

Volvo Truck workers strike over wages, divisive two-tier

Workers reject bosses’ offer, go back on picket line
Picket at Volvo truck factory in Dublin, Virginia, June 13. UAW members had ended strike April 30, then rejected boss proposals twice by 90%. They went back out on strike June 7.

DUBLIN, Va. — Some 2,900 United Auto Workers Local 2069 members entered their second week back on strike at Volvo Truck, fighting for higher wages and against bosses’ demands for…


July 5, 2021

Anti-labor outfit demands workers quit their unions

Thousands of members of the United Steelworkers, United Mine Workers, United Auto Workers and Teamsters unions are on picket lines across the U.S. and in Canada, the beginnings of stirrings…