MACUNGIE, Penn. — More than 3,600 United Auto Workers members on strike at Mack Truck plants in five cities are standing up to the bosses’ steep concession contract demands. Sweden-based Volvo Group owns Mack. They went on strike Oct. 13…
LOWER MACUNGIE TOWNSHIP, Penn. — More than 3,600 Mack Truck workers in five cities went on strike Oct. 13. “We had to show them we were serious and united about turning down all their concession demands,” Walt Smith, president of…
TOLEDO, Ohio — Morale is high on General Motors workers’ picket lines at 33 factories and 22 parts warehouses around the country, one month into the strike by some 49,000 members of the United Auto Workers union. “The solidarity we’ve…
The Democrats, the liberal big-business media and the middle-class left are stepping up their furious impeachment campaign based on charges coming from the rulers’ political police. Their goal is to overturn the 2016 election and oust President Donald Trump. Their…
The capitalist rulers in Turkey and Islamist Syrian forces they arm and control launched airstrikes, artillery bombardments and a ground invasion of northeastern Syria Oct. 9, targeting the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces there. Their goal is to weaken the…
The drive to expand readership of the Militant and of books by Socialist Workers Party leaders and other working-class revolutionary leaders got off to a good start during its first week. The drive focuses on helping workers, farmers and other…
FORT WORTH, Texas — Hundreds of people, outraged at the cop killing of Atatiana Jefferson, turned out for a vigil and to stand with her family Oct. 13 in front of the house where she was shot dead by Fort…
“We don’t like going on strike, but when we get pushed against the wall, we are going to take action and we did,” United Steelworkers spokesperson Manny Armenta told the press outside the Asarco mine in Sahuarita, near Tucson, Oct.…
Aiming to deal blows to the Kurdish peoples’ struggle for national rights, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has begun airstrikes on the Kurdish-controlled region of northeastern Syria. President Donald Trump announced Oct. 6 the withdrawal of some U.S. troops in…
With an uptick in workers’ battles — like the UAW strike against GM and the Blackjewel coal miners’ fight to win wages stolen from them by the bosses — the Socialist Workers Party has launched a nine-week drive to expand…
