Signalmen vote down proposed rail contract as workers’ fight continues

Vol. 86/No. 42 - November 14, 2022
Amtrak train hit truck in Missouri June 27 with four killed. Bosses stalled on putting in warning signals there. Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen voted down proposed contract Oct. 26.

LINCOLN, Neb. — “Railroad union members continue to organize protests to demonstrate their dissatisfaction with the bosses in their fight to get a contract that the membership will approve,” Jakob Forsgren, chair of local Lodge 1320 of the Brotherhood of…


Help expand the reach of the SWP and the ‘Militant’

Vol. 86/No. 42 - November 14, 2022
Olivia Ortiz, left, shows Joanne Kuniansky, SWP candidate for Congress in New Jersey, a video of her working construction job. Ortiz appreciated Militant’s coverage of Iran and subscribed.

Days before Nov. 8 elections, the Socialist Workers Party and its candidates are making a final push to reach working people with the party’s program and activities. Gabrielle Prosser, SWP candidate for governor of Minnesota, spoke at a candidates’ forum…


NY meeting hits FBI harassment in Puerto Rico

Vol. 86/No. 42 - November 14, 2022
Oct. 28 event in People’s Church in New York. From left, Rev. Dorlimar Lebrón, chair; Milagros Rivera, Cuba Solidarity Committee in Puerto Rico; Gail Walker, Pastors for Peace; Oronde Lumumba Shakur, African People’s Socialist Party; Ana López, Frente Independentista Boricua; and Martín Koppel, SWP.

NEW YORK — “The FBI will not intimidate us!” Milagros Rivera, president of the Cuba Solidarity Committee in Puerto Rico, told an audience of 120 people here Oct. 28. “We will continue to fight for the freedom of our homeland,”…




Help spread the word about the SWP campaign!

Vol. 86/No. 41 - November 7, 2022
Deborah Liatos, right, SWP candidate for U.S. Congress, talks with people at rally of thousands in Los Angeles Oct. 1 protesting death of Mahsa Amini in Iran after arrest by “morality” police.

With elections less than two weeks away, Socialist Workers Party candidates and campaign supporters are stepping up efforts to reach working people with the party’s program. Campaigners are bringing solidarity to strike picket lines, talking to workers and farmers door…


Iran protests expand, win support, challenge regime

Workers’ strikes add momentum to the protests
Vol. 86/No. 41 - November 7, 2022
Huge crowd Oct. 26 at cemetery in Saqqez, Kurdish region of Iran, hometown of Mahsa Amini, 40 days since her death in the hands of Tehran’s “morality” police. Protests keep growing.

Teachers across Iran joined three days of mourning and then held “sit-ins” at elementary and high schools across the country Oct. 23 and 24 in response to the call by the Coordinating Council of Iranian Teachers Trade Union Associations “to…


Ukraine pushes Moscow back, defending its independence!

Vol. 86/No. 41 - November 7, 2022

Eight months into its invasion of Ukraine, Moscow is resorting to the systematic bombing of civilian areas of Ukraine’s major cities and the destruction of vital infrastructure, as a Ukrainian counteroffensive threatens to retake the city of Kherson in the…


Vote Socialist Workers Party, back working class struggles!

Vol. 86/No. 41 - November 7, 2022
Alyson Kennedy with Gerardo Sánchez, right, Socialist Workers Party candidates for governor of Texas and U.S. Congress, speak to unionists at May 1 picnic at Lake Cliff Park, Dallas.

With early voting already underway, both Democrats and Republicans claim the midterm elections are the most important in decades. The bosses’ two main parties are laser focused on factional battles against each other. Whichever party controls the House and Senate…


Moscow out of Ukraine now! Back Ukraine independence!

Kyiv’s sovereignty rests on its working class
Vol. 86/No. 40 - October 31, 2022
Rally in Vancouver, British Columbia, Oct. 16 by 300 supporters of Ukrainian independence. Putin’s terror bombing of Ukraine cities is deepening opposition across Russia.

Moscow’s deadly bombardment of Kyiv and other cities, targeting civilians as well as infrastructure needed for heat and power, has done nothing to deter the willingness of Ukrainians to defend their homeland. Kyiv’s forces continue to press to retake areas…