The AUKUS military pact signed by the governments of the U.S., Australia and the U.K. has thrown into sharp relief conflicts with other imperialist powers, especially Paris. The deal is aimed at curbing Beijing’s growing economic clout and military ambitions…
Branches of the Socialist Workers Party across the U.S. are stepping up campaigning among working people as they begin the fall seven-week drive to sell 1,300 subscriptions to the Militant, 1,300 books by SWP and other revolutionary leaders, and to…
CHICAGO — Members of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union at Nabisco plants and distribution centers in Oregon, Colorado, Virginia, Illinois and Georgia voted to adopt a new four-year contract Sept. 16 and 17. The over…
BARDSTOWN, Ky. — Four hundred United Food and Commercial Workers members went on strike Sept. 11 against Heaven Hill Brands bourbon distillery here after their five-year union contract expired. “The biggest issue is what the company calls ‘nontraditional’ scheduling,” Matt…
The Socialist Workers Party is launching a bold, international communist propaganda campaign to the working class to win 1,300 new subscribers to the paper, sell the same number of books by leaders of the party and other revolutionaries, and to…
In a blow to Washington’s stepped-up attempts to isolate Cuba, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador invited Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel to serve as guest of honor for Mexico’s independence day celebration Sept. 16. In his speech at the military…
President Joseph Biden was joined by Scott Morrison and Boris Johnson, the prime ministers of Australia and Britain, Sept. 15 to announce a three-way military alliance — AUKUS. Committing the U.S. rulers and those of the two lesser imperialist powers…
With no end in sight to widespread joblessness, continuing deaths and lockdowns from COVID, inflation eating up our wages and employer attacks on working conditions, growing numbers of workers are looking for ways to use our unions to defend ourselves…
BEAUMONT, Texas — Over 650 oil workers, members of United Steelworkers Local 13-243, have been locked out at the ExxonMobil Refinery and Lubricant Blending and Packaging plant here since bosses marched them out of the facility four months ago. They…
As we go to press … The BCTGM announced Sept. 15 it had reached a tentative agreement with Nabisco. Union members will read, discuss and vote on the proposals in the coming days. Picketing at the six strike locations continues…
