May 1 rallies push for stronger unions, rights of immigrants

Vol. 87/No. 19 - May 15, 2023
Farmworkers lead march for immigrant and workers’ rights in Yakima, Washington, May 1.

NEW YORK — International Workers Day marches and protests across the United States and in the U.S. colony of Puerto Rico May 1 — like similar actions all over the world — attracted working people and youth looking for ways…


UPS workers rally, open battle over new contract

Key issues are two-tier wages, part-time jobs
Vol. 87/No. 19 - May 15, 2023
Teamsters rally at UPS depot in New York April 28, part of national fight for new contract to get rid of two-tier pay, boost wages for part-time workers and unify all the workers.

NEW YORK — Hundreds of Teamsters union members rallied at six UPS hubs in the New York City area at the end of April to advance their fight for a new contract. The current contract expires July 31. Workers’ key…


Workers feel a wind at their backs in combat with the bosses

Vol. 87/No. 19 - May 15, 2023

Over the past couple of years growing numbers of workers have turned to our unions to resist bosses’ efforts to squeeze more from our labor. Underlying this shift is a deepening crisis of capitalist production and trade, sharpening international rivalries…


Working people in East Palestine keep up fight for cleanup, health

Vol. 87/No. 19 - May 15, 2023
Eric “Jake” Cozza, center, who lives half a mile from Norfolk Southern derailment site, testifies at April 27 EPA hearing, saying results of urine test show presence of toxic vinyl chloride.

EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — Three months after the Feb. 3 Norfolk Southern train derailment, fire and burn-off of toxic vinyl chloride here, workers, farmers and small-business people continue to press to gain control over needed steps to clean up the…


Expand reach of SWP campaigns, ‘Militant,’ books by SWP leaders

Vol. 87/No. 19 - May 15, 2023
Socialist Workers Party member Naomi Craine signs up foundry worker Gabriel Quintero for Militant subscription,

We’re entering the home stretch of the international campaign to extend the readership of the Militant by 1,350; sell a similar number of books by Socialist Workers Party leaders and other revolutionaries; introduce the party’s candidates and its program to…


Back public workers on strike all across Canada

Workers fighting for pay raise to offset inflation
Vol. 87/No. 18 - May 8, 2023
Members of Agriculture Union in Public Service Alliance of Canada picket Port of Montreal April 24, part of strike by 155,000 Canadian federal government workers.

MONTREAL — In one of the largest labor actions in Canada in decades, more than 155,000 federal government workers, members of the Public Service Alliance of Canada, set up picket lines from one end of the country to the other…


East Palestine working people fight for control over their lives

Vol. 87/No. 18 - May 8, 2023
Oil refinery worker Rich Miner, center, and Sheree Artis talk to Socialist Workers Party member Seth Galinsky in Paulsboro, New Jersey, April 23. Miner said he volunteered for the cleanup after 2012 derailment there, when vinyl chloride spilled, same chemical as in East Palestine.

EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — Workers, farmers and small-business people here continue to press for action to clean up the area and protect their health after the Feb. 3 Norfolk Southern train derailment, fire and burn-off of toxic vinyl chloride. They’re…


Drop all charges filed against the African People’s Socialist Party!

Vol. 87/No. 18 - May 8, 2023

Striking a serious blow at constitutional protections, Department of Justice prosecutors got a federal grand jury in Florida April 18 to indict three members of the African People’s Socialist Party and Uhuru Movement on trumped-up charges of being “foreign agents.”…


Back Ukraine independence! Moscow out of all of Ukraine

Vol. 87/No. 18 - May 8, 2023
The Putin regime in Russia has banned demonstrations against its invasion of Ukraine, but a rally against the rise in utility bills drew 300 people in Novosibirsk, 2,000 miles east of Moscow, in March. Similar protest actions were held in other cities, free of cop harassment.

As the first large-scale war in Europe since World War II grinds on, tensions between the world’s major capitalist powers grow and the world order imposed by Washington after the second imperialist slaughter is being shaken. At the same time…


Hey, they shrunk the Doritos, and Twinkies, and …

Vol. 87/No. 18 - May 8, 2023

As food prices keep rising, many companies are seeking to maximize profits through “shrinkflation,” which some workers call “skimpflation,” where they fiddle with the packaging and you end up paying the same price but get less. Bosses have been doing…