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October 14, 2024

Back dockworkers strike! East, Gulf Coast ports shut

Hundreds of International Longshoremen’s Association workers picket at Port of Miami Oct. 2 as 45,000 dockworkers strike at 36 U.S. ports from Maine to Texas for first time in decades.

…percent of U.S. imports come through these ports. Like tens of thousands of other workers, dockworkers are fighting for a union contract that includes wage increases to offset today’s high…


October 14, 2024

East Palestine residents protest settlement with railroad

…fire and burn-off of toxic chemicals. Salem News reported Pearson called the settlement “fair, reasonable, and adequate,” despite affidavits challenging earlier test results. The Unity Council for the East Palestine…


October 28, 2024

‘Working class needs to take political power’

Dennis Richter, left, SWP candidate for U.S. vice president, joined picket of 200 Service Employees International Union members at Los Angeles airport Oct. 11 for higher wages.

SWP Vice Presidential candidate Richter: ‘Defending Israel’s right to exist is in the interests of the world working class’ LOS ANGELES — “Hamas’ so-called Al-Aqsa Flood — their name for…







September 2, 2024

‘Working people need our own party, a party of labor’

Rachele Fruit, SWP candidate for U.S. president, met Aug. 19 in Manchester, England, with Festus Igho, center, and Israel Akanji, rail gateline workers who are active in the fight to win recognition for the Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers union on the job.

…battles,” Fruit said. But they’re under attack today, especially by the Democratic Party, “through frame-ups — the stock-in-trade method for going after working-class fighters — and attacks on freedom of…