‘Amnesty for immigrants in the US, unify working class’

Vol. 88/No. 23 - June 10, 2024
Dennis Richter, center, Socialist Workers Party candidate for vice president, campaigns in New York among delivery workers, many from West African countries, May 24. He said workers in the U.S. and Africa have common interests in the fight against capitalist rule.

NEW YORK — During a visit here May 24, Dennis Richter, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. vice president, spoke with a dozen or more app-based bicycle food delivery workers — many from West African countries — about conditions faced…


Flight attendant unions call June 13 rallies at airports in US and Britain

Vol. 88/No. 23 - June 10, 2024
Flight attendants rally in Washington, D.C., May 9. With no pay raise in five years, their unions called protests at 30 airports June 13, demanding new contract, pay for all hours worked.

The Association of Flight Attendants-CWA and Association of Professional Flight Attendants, representing some 77,000 flight attendants between them, have called for picket lines at 30 airports June 13 to press their demands for new contracts. After working more than two…




Richter joins locked-out Boeing firefighters’ picket

Vol. 88/No. 22 - June 3, 2024
SWP vice presidential candidate Dennis Richter, left, on Boeing firefighters’ picket May 13.

SEATTLE — Dennis Richter, Rachele Fruit’s running mate as Socialist Workers Party candidate for vice president, joined International Association of Fire Fighters Local I-66 members at their picket line outside Boeing’s factory gates here May 13. Some 125 firefighters at…


Join fight to overturn ban on ‘Militant’ in Florida prison

Vol. 88/No. 22 - June 3, 2024

Prison officials in Florida have banned an issue of the Militant in violation of inmates’ constitutional rights and the right of the Militant to reach its subscribers behind bars. Aided by the Militant’s attorney, David Goldstein, we are fighting to…


Support Israel’s fight to defeat Hamas, prevent more pogroms

Vol. 88/No. 22 - June 3, 2024
Aftermath of Hamas’ slaughter of 370 Jews and others at Nova music festival in Israel, part of Oct. 7 pogrom that killed 1,200 people overall. More than 40 of the hostages Hamas seized were at the festival. “Everything we do is justified,” says Hamas leader Ghazi Hamad, inset.

With their move into Rafah, Israeli forces are making progress in the fight to dismantle Hamas in Gaza, an absolute necessity to prevent the Tehran-backed group from carrying out its threats to keep massacring Jews “again and again.” Since May…



UAW wins 44% in first union vote at Mercedes, workers vow to fight on

Vol. 88/No. 22 - June 3, 2024

Following the victorious United Auto Workers unionization campaign by workers at the Volkswagen auto plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in April, workers at Mercedes-Benz in Vance, Alabama, voted down representation by the UAW by 56% — 2,642 to 2,045 “Of course…


As Trump trial in NY winds down, judge steps up attacks on rights

Vol. 88/No. 22 - June 3, 2024

Democrats desperately hope the outcome of the frame-up trial of Donald Trump they have engineered in New York will be successful and advance their seven-year-long drive to bring him down. Over that time they’ve fabricated claims he colluded with Moscow,…