Workers give bosses’ ‘blood money’ bribes to build SWP

Vol. 85/No. 25 - June 28, 2021

As bosses everywhere try to boost their competitive edge and profits at the expense of workers, they sometimes feel compelled to hand out some bribes, hoping to buy workers’ acquiescence. Socialist Workers Party members call this “blood money” — production,…


SWP to host Int’l Active Workers Conference in Ohio July 22-24

Vol. 85/No. 25 - June 28, 2021

The Socialist Workers Party is hosting an International Active Workers Conference at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio, July 22-24. As COVID restrictions are being lifted, this is the first time in nearly two years the party has been able to…


Book on Chinese Cubans in the Cuban Revolution out in Greek

Vol. 85/No. 24 - June 21, 2021
Cuba’s Ambassador in Greece, Zelmys María Domínguez Cortina, left, and book editor Natasha Terlexi, speak at May 30 book launch of Our History Is Still Being Written in Greek.

ATHENS, Greece — Publisher Diethnes Vima publicly launched its newly released Greek-language edition of Our History Is Still Being Written: The Story of Three Chinese Cuban Generals in the Cuban Revolution here May 30. The book is a series of…


Hong Kong protests defy ban, mark Tiananmen massacre

Vol. 85/No. 24 - June 21, 2021
Hong Kong protests defy ban, mark Tiananmen massacre

Despite facing over 7,000 police, ostensibly mobilized to block “illegal assemblies,” throngs of people gathered outside barricaded Victoria Park in Hong Kong June 4. They were honoring hundreds killed 32 years ago when Beijing brutally crushed mass protests for political…


Autoworkers back on picket line in Volvo Truck strike

Vol. 85/No. 24 - June 21, 2021
Picket at Volvo Truck plant in Dublin, Virginia, June 7. UAW members voted down contract offer for second time by 90%.

After twice voting down proposed contracts by 90%, 2,900 United Auto Workers Local 2069 members at Volvo Truck’s New River Valley plant in Dublin, Virginia, went back on strike June 7. Horns blared as workers drove out of the plant…


Ongoing protests in Colombia hit jobs crisis, police brutality

Vol. 85/No. 24 - June 21, 2021
Indigenous Misak join in anti-government protest in Bogotá, Colombia, June 2, demanding jobs, guaranteed income, subsidies for small farmers and dismantling of hated riot police.

Nationwide strikes and protests demanding jobs and an end to police attacks have paralyzed Colombia for almost two months. Tens of thousands of people took to the streets again June 2 after negotiations between the government and protest leaders stalled.…


Graves of Indigenous youth provoke outrage in Canada

Vol. 85/No. 24 - June 21, 2021

MONTREAL — The discovery of the remains of 215 Indigenous children in an unmarked mass grave on the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia, confirmed May 27, has provoked outrage among working people across Canada.…


Women in Dominican Republic protest ban on abortion

Vol. 85/No. 24 - June 21, 2021

NEW YORK — The Dominican Republic is one of four countries in Latin America — along with Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador — where abortion is completely illegal, no exceptions. Only four Latin American countries have legalized abortion: revolutionary Cuba,…