Rebuff by working people, 2021 losses fuel divisions in Democratic Party

Vol. 85/No. 44 - November 29, 2021
Deepening capitalist crisis is behind increased labor actions. Striking bakery workers, members of BCTGM Local 374G, picket Kellogg’s cereal plant in East Hempfield, Pennsylvania, Oct. 30.

Frictions and acrimony roiling the Democratic Party — between so-called moderates like Sen. Joe Manchin from West Virginia, “progressives” like Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton, and liberals and socialist Democrats like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — are exacerbated by the party’s 2021…


Kyle Rittenhouse trial in Kenosha poses question of rights workers need

Vol. 85/No. 44 - November 29, 2021

KENOSHA, Wisc. — The murder trial of Kyle Rittenhouse has drawn renewed attention to events that unfolded here after cop Rusten Sheskey shot Jacob Blake Jr. last year. The trial and debate surrounding it underscore the stakes for working people…


Join SWP to expand reach of ‘Militant,’ books, fund

Vol. 85/No. 43 - November 22, 2021
SWP campaigner Chuck Guerra, right, talks with David Marquez, a welder in Miami, Nov. 8. Marquez, who immigrated from Venezuela, bought Are They Rich Because They’re Smart?

The Militant and books by Socialist Workers Party leaders and other revolutionaries are getting around among working people. Strikers on picket lines say they appreciate the paper’s accurate coverage of their struggles and the news it brings them of other…


What do the 2021 election results mean for the US working class?

Vol. 85/No. 43 - November 22, 2021
Doug Nelson, SWP candidate for Minneapolis mayor, right, at rally against U.S. Cuba embargo July 15. SWP candidates built support for union fights, offered road forward for working class.

The 2021 elections registered a sharp rejection of the anti-working-class politics of the liberal and middle-class socialist wing of the Democratic Party by workers and farmers across the country. From “defund the cops” referendums in Minneapolis and Seattle to the…



Some NY taxi drivers win debt reduction, fight for all continues

Vol. 85/No. 43 - November 22, 2021

Fifteen days after some two dozen New York City yellow-cab drivers began a well-publicized hunger strike, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer and Taxi and Limousine Commissioner Aloysee Heredia Jarmoszuk announced Nov. 3 an agreement had…


Solidarity with striking miners at Warrior Met!

Join fight against court ban on right to picket
Vol. 85/No. 43 - November 22, 2021
Miners and supporters march in New York Nov. 4 to back seven-month strike at Warrior Met Coal in Brookwood, Alabama, protest court ban on all picketing within 300 yards of mines.

NEW YORK — Led by a contingent of miners from the more than seven-month-long strike at Warrior Met Coal in Brookwood, Alabama, over 400 people marched here Nov. 4 to support the strikers and to protest an Oct. 27 court…


Deere strikers: End divisive two-tier, raise all our wages

Vol. 85/No. 43 - November 22, 2021

WATERLOO, Iowa — United Auto Workers members on strike at John Deere plants in Iowa, Illinois and Kansas, and distribution centers in Denver and Atlanta, rejected the bosses’ second contract proposal Nov. 2. While it contained a higher wage offer…


Alabama court bans miners’ right to picket at Warrior Met

Vol. 85/No. 42 - November 15, 2021

ATLANTA — In an outrageous assault on workers’ rights, Tuscaloosa County Circuit Court Judge James H. Roberts Jr. handed down a restraining order Oct. 27 ordering the United Mine Workers of America to halt all picketing or any other union…


Spread word, build support for Deere, Kellogg’s strikes!

Deere strikers vote down contract, fight continues
Vol. 85/No. 42 - November 15, 2021

DENVER — Production and maintenance workers at John Deere’s 12 plants in Iowa, Illinois and Kansas voted 55% to 45% Nov. 2 to reject the agricultural implements bosses’ latest contract offer.   While a majority of United Auto Workers members…