15,000 Uber drivers strike over pay cuts in Australia

Vol. 82/No. 32 - August 27, 2018

SYDNEY — Uber drivers across Australia stopped work Aug. 6 to protest the decline in their take-home pay caused by two new programs the company has imposed on them. The action was called by Ride Share Drivers United, which reported…


SWP: Fight for independent working-class political action

Vol. 82/No. 32 - August 27, 2018

As historic changes are taking place in the world — in Korea, the Middle East, Europe and elsewhere — members and supporters of the Socialist Workers Party are taking their class-struggle program broadly to working people. They knock on workers’…


Join fight against censorship in Illinois, Florida prisons!

Vol. 82/No. 32 - August 27, 2018
Join fight against censorship in Illinois, Florida prisons!

The Militant  urges readers to join in winning support for the newspaper’s fight to overturn a ban imposed on the paper to a subscriber at the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ medium security facility in Greenville, Illinois. Warden Tom Werlich justified…


Primaries expose ongoing crisis wracking both capitalist parties

Vol. 82/No. 32 - August 27, 2018

The primary contests underway to select candidates for the two main capitalist parties contending in the November elections have been marked by the political crisis wracking both the Democrats and Republicans, a crisis that accelerated with Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential…


SWP: Build fighting alliance of workers and farmers!

Vol. 82/No. 31 - August 20, 2018

The following statement by Róger Calero, Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor of New York, was released Aug. 8. The crisis facing working farmers and ranchers and the pressing need for the unions to mobilize solidarity with their struggles was…


SWP takes campaigns to workers’ doorsteps

Socialist Workers Party says workers need to take power
Vol. 82/No. 31 - August 20, 2018
SWP candidate for US Senate Alyson Kennedy, right, discusses fight against police brutality, for amnesty for workers without papers with Victoria Dominguez in Waxahachie, Texas, July 30.

“I know all about Santos Rodriguez! I grew up in southwest Dallas,” Victoria Dominguez told Alyson Kennedy, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Senate from Texas, when she knocked on her door July 30. “You need to meet my mother.…


Workers have nothing to gain in US moves on China trade

Vol. 82/No. 31 - August 20, 2018

Claiming Beijing has been “cheating,” Washington imposed a series of tariffs on Chinese goods, seeking to use its superior clout to gain concessions to aid U.S. bosses in trade between the two countries. The Chinese rulers, so far, have responded…


‘Militant’ files appeal against ban by Illinois federal prison

Vol. 82/No. 31 - August 20, 2018

The fight continues against the move by prison authorities at the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ medium security facility in Greenville, Illinois, to ban the Militant. Authorities there have prevented a subscriber from getting the paper since the June 11 issue.…


New round of protests in Iran oppose impact of rulers’ wars

Vol. 82/No. 31 - August 20, 2018
Track workers near Nayshabour, Aug. 7 protest effects of Iranian rulers’ counterrevolutionary wars. Banner says, “We have not been paid wages for several months. We have no job security. We have no future. We have no honor. We have no bread. We have no social benefits.”

A new round of protests and strikes are unfolding across Iran, following the working-class-led protests that took place in late December and early January. They’re fueled above all by the impact on the working class of the wars conducted by…


US, NKorea denuclearization moves good for working class

Vol. 82/No. 31 - August 20, 2018

Washington and Pyongyang continue to take steps to implement the agreement for the “denuclearization” of the Korean Peninsula reached at the June 12 summit in Singapore between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. The agreement is…