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September 30, 2019

25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

…Association of Los Angeles, which aims to outlaw the union shop. The open shop drive in California follows the pattern established in a number of states, which have adopted vicious…




July 15, 2019

Liberals’ Green New Deal is trap for working class

Modeled on Roosevelt’s WWII attacks on unions

…the Northwest Organizer, the paper of the militant SWP-led Teamsters union in Minnesota, and in books like Labor’s Giant Step by Art Preis. Ocasio-Cortez’s proposal demands an “economic mobilization on…


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.

…one of the books you’ll find on the Pathfinder table at the back, Labor’s Giant Step by Art Preis, one of the Militant’s principal labor reporters for many years. What…



October 16, 2023

Bring labor’s power to bear in UAW strike

…the unions. These lessons are discussed weekly in the Militant, and in books like Farrell Dobbs’ four-volume Teamsters series and Labor’s Giant Step, Art Preis’s riveting history of the rise…