All out to back UAW strike! Bring labor’s power to bear!

Vol. 87/No. 37 - October 9, 2023
Over 400 UAW Local 862 members, supporters rallied in Louisville, Kentucky, Sept. 21, chanting: “Who’s got the power? We’ve got the power! What kind of power? Union power!

TOLEDO, Ohio — United Auto Workers at the Stellantis Assembly Center here have been on strike since Sept. 15, along with autoworkers at the Ford plant in Wayne, Michigan, and General Motors in Wentzville, Missouri. They’ve been joined by walkouts…


Writers Guild discusses new contract, actors continue strike

Vol. 87/No. 37 - October 9, 2023

LOS ANGELES — A tentative settlement in the nearly five-month-long Writers Guild of America strike against the bosses’ Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers was announced Sept. 24 after several days of talks between the union negotiating committee and…


SWP campaigns with ‘Militant,’ books, working class program

Vol. 87/No. 37 - October 9, 2023
Laura Garza, right, SWP candidate for U.S. Senate in California, in San Leandro Sept. 24. She urged workers who signed for party’s right to be on ballot to support striking UAW members.

OAKLAND, Calif. — “When the working class starts to stand up, as they’re doing today, everything changes. More workers start to think, what can I do?” Laura Garza, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Senate from California, said at a…


Cuban president speaks in Harlem on Malcolm X-Fidel Castro meeting

Vol. 87/No. 37 - October 9, 2023
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel speaks at Malcolm X Center in Harlem, New York, Sept. 18.

NEW YORK — Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel spoke about the impact Malcolm X had on a generation of youth and revolutionaries in Cuba during a visit to the Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center here Sept.…


March in Jersey City protests cop killing of Drew Washington

Vol. 87/No. 37 - October 9, 2023

JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Chanting “Say his name: Drew Washington!” 100 people marched and rallied at City Hall here Sept. 20 protesting the Aug. 27 police killing of Andrew Jerome Washington. He suffered from bipolar disorder. Handwritten signs included “Schizophrenia…


Older workers face economic crisis, insecurity, growing homelessness

Vol. 87/No. 37 - October 9, 2023

Despite self-congratulatory reports in the liberal capitalist media that the U.S. economy is doing great, working people increasingly face a growing social crisis today. More and more older workers are losing their lodging, consigned to a shelter or onto the…


Solidarity with UAW strike! Fight for whole working class

Vol. 87/No. 36 - October 2, 2023
United Auto Workers rally in Detroit Sept. 15, as UAW struck assembly plants at Stellantis in Toledo, Ohio; General Motors in Wentzville, Missouri; and Ford in Wayne, Michigan.

TOLEDO, Ohio — There is a working-class battle taking place in the auto industry today that all workers should support. Some 13,000 United Auto Workers’ members went on strike Sept. 15 at the Ford plant in Wayne, Michigan; General Motors…


As 2024 nears, Democrats step up attacks on political rights

Vol. 87/No. 36 - October 2, 2023
Boston cops seize socialist literature during 1919-20 Palmer Raids. Inset, Victor Berger’s 1918 Socialist Party election campaign. Congress voted 309-1 to bar him from office after he won.

The Democrats’ seven-year-long relentless campaign to drive Donald Trump out of politics and bar him from running for president in 2024 is becoming more frantic as the primaries come nearer. President Joseph Biden’s Justice Department and Democratic prosecutors in Georgia…


Join campaign to expand reach of the ‘Militant’!

Vol. 87/No. 36 - October 2, 2023
Laura Garza, right, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Senate from California, discusses politics with participants at Mexican Independence Day celebration in Oxnard Sept. 17.

The Socialist Workers Party’s fall campaign to win 1,350 subscribers to the Militant, sell 1,350 books by party leaders and other revolutionaries and raise $140,000 for the SWP Party-Building Fund is off and running! We’re asking our readers to join…


Protests mark one-year anniversary since death of Zhina Amini in Iran

Vol. 87/No. 36 - October 2, 2023
Sept. 16 protest in New York, above, and around world on anniversary of death of young Kurdish woman Zhina Amini. She died in Tehran after arrest by Iran’s hated “morality police.” Demands included end to counterrevolutionary regime’s repression, release of all political prisoners.

Demonstrations took place around the world Sept. 16 to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the death of Zhina Amini, a young Kurdish woman who died after her arrest by the hated “morality police” in Tehran, accused of violating the dress…