White House acts to refurbish FBI, target rights workers need

Vol. 86/No. 37 - October 10, 2022

Serious blows are being struck to constitutional freedoms by President Joseph Biden’s White House, congressional Democrats and the FBI in the course of a mounting number of legal assaults against former President Donald Trump and his family members in the…


Join fight for amnesty for all immigrants living in the US!

Vol. 86/No. 37 - October 10, 2022

Republican governors in Arizona, Florida and Texas have been sending busloads of migrants who’ve crossed the Mexican border to liberal northern “sanctuary” cities, saying authorities there should be glad to get them. Democratic mayors, like New York’s Eric Adams, and…


Protest Putin’s new war moves! Defend Ukraine independence!

Protests in Russia: ‘No to war! No to mobilizations!’
Vol. 86/No. 36 - October 3, 2022
Manifestantes (izq.), en Ulan-Ude en Siberia con carteles contra guerra contra Ucrania y nuevas movilizaciones, 21 septiembre. Der., manifestantes en Moscú, corearon, “¡No a guerra!” “¡Envíen a Putin a las trincheras!” Miles protestaron a pesar de represión y arrestos por la policía.

Advances by Ukrainian forces, backed by the local population, fighting Moscow’s invasion have set back Russian President Vladimir Putin’s attempt to crush the country’s independence. Weakened by recent battlefield reversals, Putin’s regime also faces growing pressure from opponents at home,…


White House, FBI attacks on constitutional rights continue

Vol. 86/No. 36 - October 3, 2022

Since Joseph Biden’s Sept. 1 speech singling out “MAGA Republicans” as a “clear and present danger,” the president and other Democrats continue to target former President Donald Trump and the tens of millions who voted for him as a danger…


Rail unionists debate contract deal, vow to keep up fight

Vol. 86/No. 36 - October 3, 2022
Massive 3-mile-long cargo train in Southern California in 2020. Rail bosses are pushing longer freight trains, one-person “crews,” unsafe and inhuman schedules, on call 24/7. These conditions wreak havoc on rail workers’ lives and endanger them, other workers and communities near the tracks.

LINCOLN, Neb. — In the next several weeks, nearly 100,000 union rail workers will vote on tentative agreements negotiated by rail union officials on the one side and five Class 1 rail companies and 30 local railroad bosses, organized together…



SWP campaigns to build support for labor battles, win new readers

Vol. 86/No. 36 - October 3, 2022
BSNF rail worker Gary Cockerham, right, told SWP member Dennis Richter, center, in Ft. Worth Sept. 20 about how crew cuts and increasingly longer trains make rail work more dangerous.

Members of the Socialist Workers Party — and Communist Leagues in Australia, Canada and the U.K. — are going out to workers’ doorsteps, union picket lines, labor movement events and protest actions to discuss conditions confronting workers and farmers today,…


Rail workers battle bosses over deadly job conditions

Bosses threaten lockout, demand gov’t intervene
Vol. 86/No. 35 - September 26, 2022
Rail workers rally Sept. 10 in Toledo, part of nationwide fight for new contract, including end to attacks on crew size, unlivable work schedules, and for pay hikes to keep up with inflation.

LINCOLN, Neb. — Amid ongoing negotiations in Washington for a national contract between the main rail unions and bosses, two rail workers were killed on the job Sept. 8. The two were on a Union Pacific freight train that collided…


Ukrainian forces push Putin back! Support Ukraine independence!

Vol. 86/No. 35 - September 26, 2022
Russian armored vehicles abandoned in river by demoralized troops in Kharkiv region fleeing Ukraine offensive. Russian-led forces, deeply dispirited by lack of support from Ukrainians in cities they occupied, departed in disarray, surrendered or deserted.

Ukrainian government forces are driving back the Russian rulers’ attempts to conquer and crush the Ukraine people and its independence. Kyiv’s forces broke through demoralized Russian front-line troops in northeast Ukraine Sept. 6, who fled in disarray. In a week,…