Workers need unions to fight for jobs and for higher wages

Vol. 85/No. 27 - July 12, 2021
Unionists hold protest picket at Frito-Lay plant in Topeka, Kansas, May 3. On June 26 members of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Union Local 218 voted 353-30 to strike July 5. Bosses have stalled negotiations over pay raise and ending forced overtime.

Reversing far-reaching unemployment still faced by millions, along with fighting the effect of rising prices for key necessities, requires action by working people and our unions — joining together to stand up to the bosses, their government and their two…


Iran vote reflects working people’s distrust of regime

Vol. 85/No. 27 - July 12, 2021

Ebrahim Raisi’s election as president of Iran June 18 was marked by the growing lack of trust in the country’s bourgeois clerical regime by working people. Less than half of eligible voters turned out, the lowest for a presidential election…


Back Warrior Met miners out on strike in Alabama!

Solidarity crucial in months-long battle
Vol. 85/No. 26 - July 5, 2021
Striking miners at expanded picket at entrance to Warrior Met Coal No. 7 mine June 15 where company is using scabs. This is first union contract strike battle in Alabama mine since 1980s.

MCCALLA, Ala.—Striking United Mine Workers of America members, backed by their families, retirees and other union supporters, gathered for a solidarity rally at Tannehill State Park here June 16, marking 2½ months on strike against Warrior Met Coal. The rallies…


Workers need to fight for jobs, wages to match all price hikes

Vol. 85/No. 26 - July 5, 2021
United Steelworkers union members on strike against Allegheny Technologies Inc. and their supporters rally at plant in Washington, Pennsylvania, June 22. Workers are fighting against company attacks on union, cuts in retirement benefits, demand workers pay more for health insurance.

Workers face a triple whammy today — continued high unemployment, price hikes on basic necessities like gas and food, and efforts by the bosses to protect their dog-eat-dog competitive edge and profits on our backs. What millions confront shows the…


‘Workers in US, Puerto Rico face the same enemy’

Vol. 85/No. 26 - July 5, 2021

The U.N. Special Committee on Decolonization held its annual hearing on the status of Puerto Rico June 18, after skipping the previous year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Puerto Rico has been under the boot of Washington as a U.S.…


Join the Socialist Workers Party campaign! Help spread the word

Vol. 85/No. 26 - July 5, 2021
In Woodland Park June 13, Richard Beinabel and Yamilka Mendez told Joanne Kuniansky, right, Walmart worker running as SWP candidate for N.J. governor, they liked that she is independent of Democrats and Republicans. They got Militant, books on working-class politics.

The Socialist Workers Party is on the ballot in New Jersey! The June 14 deadline passed with no challenge to the 1,500 signatures SWP campaign supporters collected for Joanne Kuniansky, the party’s candidate for New Jersey governor. The party plans…


‘New York Times,’ liberal press act as propaganda agents for Hamas

Vol. 85/No. 26 - July 5, 2021

The Hamas group, which rules Gaza, mounted an incendiary balloon attack against civilian areas in Israel June 16, which caused at least 20 fires inside the country. This was meant to provoke a military response from the new Israeli administration,…


SWP campaign expands reach, builds solidarity in Ill. coalfields

Vol. 85/No. 25 - June 28, 2021
Dennis Richter, SWP candidate for California governor, talks to unemployed home care worker Liliana Garcia in San Ysidro June 11 about amnesty for undocumented workers living in U.S.

Everywhere Socialist Workers Party campaigners are finding interest in discussing what workers and farmers face and how we can stand up together against the bosses’ assaults. Campaigners are in the final weeks of a nine-week drive to sell 1,400 Militant…