Rail workers send solidarity to residents in East Palestine

Working people step up fight after toxic derailment
Vol. 87/No. 22 - June 5, 2023
Shell chemical fire in Deer Park, near Houston, May 5, one of several recent disasters in East Texas. Big business drive for profits causes such “accidents,” as it did in East Palestine, Ohio.

PITTSBURGH — “By speaking out and supporting efforts to hold the nation’s rail carriers accountable,” SMART-TD, the rail conductors’ union, proclaimed in its spring 2023 newsletter, “We do our part to keep what happened in East Palestine from happening again.”…


Durham report details attacks by Democrats, FBI on rights

Vol. 87/No. 22 - June 5, 2023

Department of Justice special counsel John Durham’s 306-page report released May 15 meticulously details the unconstitutional spy operation and “Russian collusion” witch hunt instigated by FBI bosses and Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign to try to prevent Donald Trump from winning…


Beijing looks to expand but can’t match weight of US imperialism

Vol. 87/No. 22 - June 5, 2023

For decades the rulers in Beijing have sought to expand control over trade routes and increase their military while seeking markets for their rapidly growing capitalist economy. Rivalry with the U.S. rulers for influence in Asia, the Pacific and beyond…


Truckers’ Indiana caravan protests brokers’ moves to slash their income

Vol. 87/No. 22 - June 5, 2023
Hundreds of owner-operators, fleet drivers protested in Indianapolis May 17 against brokers slashing of freight rates. Punjabi drivers from India and Pakistan are 20% of all U.S. truckers.

WASHINGTON — Hundreds of owner-operators and fleet drivers joined together May 17 to protest the disastrous impact of freight brokers slashing rates. The caravan of bobtails — trucks without their trailers — cars and pickup trucks convoyed from Greenwood, Indiana,…



Support Ukraine independence! Defeat Moscow’s bloody invasion!

Vol. 87/No. 22 - June 5, 2023
Shelled building in destroyed city of Bakhmut, eastern Ukraine. Moscow’s forces suffered devastating losses during nine months of combat there, taking most of the city by May 20. Ukrainian forces took hills to west of city. They’re planning to launch a counteroffensive.

On May 20 Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner mercenary army claimed it had pushed Ukrainian forces defending Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine out of the devastated city. For nine months it has been the bloodiest battleground in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s attempts to…


Rail workers build support for people of East Palestine

Residents seek control over cleanup, health care
Vol. 87/No. 21 - May 29, 2023
Michelle and Dave Shaffer talk with SWP member Kaitlin Estill in East Palestine, Ohio, April 30. He said rail disaster proves “we can’t trust politicians, the government or Norfolk Southern.”

EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — In an ongoing series of meetings here hosted by the Environmental Protection Agency, working people, farmers and small-business people continue to express their anger and distrust at claims being made by the railroad and government agencies.…


What is road forward for the working class in 2024 election?

Vol. 87/No. 21 - May 29, 2023

The 2024 presidential campaign is well underway, with Donald Trump, Joseph Biden, Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and more announced or just running. Biden threw his hat in the ring via video, evidently not wanting to make…


‘Militant,’ book, fund campaigns go over the top!

Vol. 87/No. 21 - May 29, 2023
“The government is responsible for the crisis in the health care system,” hospital worker Eliane St-Germain, right, told Communist League campaigner Rosemary Ray at protest in Quebec, May 13. St-Germain got Militant subscription, The Low Point of Labor Resistance Is Behind Us.

The international campaign to expand the reach of the Militant, sell books by Socialist Workers Party leaders and other revolutionaries, and raise needed funds for the paper has been a big success. Members of the SWP and Communist Leagues in…