Locked-out Ohio aerospace strikers win broad solidarity

Vol. 86/No. 10 - March 14, 2022

TROY, Ohio — “UAW Locked out!” declared signs carried by dozens of workers, members of the United Auto Workers Local 128, at two plant gates outside Collins Aerospace here Feb. 26. Passing drivers honked in support. Ellen Brickley, Jacquie Henderson…


Canadian truckers continue to face gov’t attack, keep pressing for rights

Vol. 86/No. 10 - March 14, 2022
Truck driver Wesley Green, right, at Lebanon, Ohio, truck stop Feb. 22 told Socialist Workers Party member Ned Measel he supports Canadian truckers and “protests outside White House.”

MONTREAL — Attacks continue against truckers and other participants in the recent Freedom Convoy organized in Ottawa demanding an end to government vaccine mandates, despite the protest ending and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau lifting the Emergencies Act Feb. 23. The…


Prosecutors quit as frame-up of former President Trump unravels

Vol. 86/No. 10 - March 14, 2022

After three years probing former President Donald Trump’s alleged financial skullduggery, two leading Manhattan prosecutors, Carey Dunne and Mark Pomerantz, quit Feb. 23, convinced there would be no prosecution of Trump. The grand jury they were running, empaneled as part…


Ukraine toilers put up fierce resistance to Putin’s invasion

Vol. 86/No. 10 - March 14, 2022

Unleashing a deadly bombardment on Ukrainian urban centers, the regime of Russian President Vladimir Putin is slaughtering thousands. Overwhelmingly outgunned and outmanned, Ukrainian troops and civilians are mounting courageous and tenacious resistance that has so far prevented Moscow’s forces from…


As Islamist attacks batter West Africa, Mali government orders French out

Vol. 86/No. 9 - March 7, 2022

President Emmanuel Macron announced the withdrawal of French troops from Mali Feb. 17 after a nine-year failed effort to crush Islamist terrorist groups operating there and in other former French colonies. This comes on top of growing political instability, including…



Defend the independence of Ukraine! Moscow out now!

Get Washington out of Eastern Europe!
Vol. 86/No. 9 - March 7, 2022
Russian tank in Donetsk Feb. 22. Flagrantly violating Ukraine sovereignty, Moscow claims that Ukraine is part of Russia and sends troops, tanks into eastern provinces, surrounds country.

Russian President Vladimir Putin Feb. 21 declared that the Moscow-backed “People’s Republics” of Donetsk and Luhansk set up in Ukraine in 2014 were independent countries and ordered Russian troops to go in as “peacekeepers.” The Kremlin’s invasion is backed by…


Machinists in Iowa strike in struggle over wages, respect

Vol. 86/No. 9 - March 7, 2022

DAVENPORT, Iowa — “It’s a wonderful feeling to be in a room with 242 union members and 98% vote to go on strike and reject the company’s ‘first, last, best and final offer,’” striker Scott Lang told this Militant worker-correspondent…


SWP takes truckers’ fight in Canada to working class

Vol. 86/No. 9 - March 7, 2022
Eleanor García, SWP leader and candidate for U.S. Senate from California, speaks to driver Chris Weber at a truck stop in Castaic, north of Los Angeles, Feb. 20. With high fuel prices, low freight and long unpaid hours waiting, he said. “I’m for the Canadian truckers.”

Members of the Socialist Workers Party have been building on the momentum of the recently concluded successful renewal campaign to introduce the paper and the party’s election campaign to workers and farmers at plant gates, strike picket lines, political events…