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October 21, 2019

UAW strike against GM is battle for all workers

Back fight to end bosses use of temps, two-tier pay
Autoworkers picket line at Bolingbrook, Illinois, GM plant was reinforced by Steelworkers Oct. 5. As bosses force longer strike, UAW strikers need solidarity to stand up to auto barons.

FLINT, Mich. — So many drivers were honking their horns in solidarity that at times it was hard to carry on a discussion on the United Auto Workers picket lines…




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…