Louisville forum: ‘SWP is on its way to Cincinnati!’

Vol. 85/ No. 39 - October 25, 2021
Maggie Trowe, at podium, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of Louisville, Kentucky, and Anthony Dutrow, right, member of the SWP National Committee, talk about political opportunities ahead as SWP members move to Cincinnati, at Oct. 2 Militant Labor Forum.

LOUISVILLE, Kentucky — At a special Militant Labor Forum here Oct. 2, the Socialist Workers Party announced its members in Louisville were moving to Cincinnati to take advantage of opportunities to deepen their involvement in the labor movement and build…


John Deere workers reject contract, set strike

Vol. 85/ No. 39 - October 25, 2021

By a 90% margin, over 10,000 United Auto Workers union members at more than a dozen John Deere plants in Iowa, Illinois and Kansas rejected a contract the agricultural-implements company bosses and union officials had agreed on. The union set…


Join Socialist Workers Party campaign!

Vol. 85/ No. 39 - October 25, 2021

Statement by Joanne Kuniansky, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New Jersey governor, Oct. 13. In the three weeks left before the 2021 elections, Socialist Workers Party candidates will present a program for the working class to defend our interests and…


Celebrate political life of Maurice Williams

Vol. 85/ No. 39 - October 25, 2021

Maurice Williams, a former member and longtime friend of the Socialist Workers Party, died Oct. 5 from COVID complications in the UAB Hospital in Birmingham. He worked at U.S. Steel in Fairfield, Alabama, for over a dozen years where he…



India: Farmer protests spread after marchers killed

Vol. 85/No. 38 - October 18, 2021

Indian farmers pledged to step up monthslong protests against laws threatening their livelihoods in response to the killing of eight people during clashes between protesters and officials in the Lakhimpur Kheri district of Uttar Pradesh state Oct. 3. Above, protest…


How Cuba’s working people made a socialist revolution

Vol. 85/No. 38 - October 18, 2021
Rally in Havana in 1960 backs revolutionary government’s nationalization of imperialist- owned properties in Cuba. Workers mobilized to “intervene” to gain control of factories, part of Cuban toilers acquiring class consciousness, making socialist revolution their own.

Below is an excerpt from a March 26, 1962, speech by Fidel Castro, the central leader of the Cuban Revolution. In it Castro discusses how Cuba’s workers and peasants were won through the series of revolutionary mobilizations and struggles to…


Texas ExxonMobil strikers are fighting for all oil workers

Vol. 85/No. 38 - October 18, 2021

DALLAS — Members of United Steelworkers Local 13-243 have maintained their picket lines at the ExxonMobil Refinery and Lubricant Blending and Packaging Plant in Beaumont, Texas, since being locked out over five months ago. After the 650 union members refused…


Build solidarity with Kellogg strike!

Vol. 85/No. 38 - October 18, 2021

Statement by Róger Calero, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New York City mayor, Oct. 6. Join me in getting out the word about, and building solidarity with, Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers union members on strike at Kellogg’s…