Bakery workers at Form-A-Feed in Wisconsin strike for pay raise

Vol. 86/No. 25 - July 11, 2022

NEW RICHMOND, Wis. — Nine members of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 22, went on strike at Form-A-Feed here June 13. They are the only union members among the over 200 workers at the company’s two mills,…


We need our own party, a labor party

Vol. 86/No. 24 - July 4, 2022

Statement by Lea Sherman, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Congress from New Jersey, June 22. Working people face high stakes in defending ourselves and our families from rampant price hikes and boss attacks today. The threat of an economic…


Iran-backed terror, Israeli retaliation increase Mideast tension

Vol. 86/No. 23 - June 13, 2022
Iran’s Natanz underground “missile city” houses large quantities of missiles, other weapons. Iran’s counterrevolutionary rulers continue efforts to develop nuclear arms, back terrorist attacks on Israeli and Jewish targets from the Golan Heights to South America, Europe, Asia.

The assassination in Tehran May 22 of Col. Hassan Sayyad Khodaei, an operative of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Quds Force, widely believed to have been carried out by Israel’s spy and counterterrorism agency Mossad, has ratcheted up tensions in the Middle…



Ukraine workers fight Moscow invasion, boss attacks at home

Vol. 86/No. 21 - May 30, 2022
Rail workers load up rail car May 3 in Lviv with food, medicine and other supplies for union members, fellow workers and Ukraine combatants, in areas hardest hit by Moscow’s invasion.

Workers and their unions in Ukraine are joining in the fight to defeat Moscow’s invasion of their country, while standing up to assaults on jobs, wages and working conditions by bosses who are backed by the government of President Volodymyr…


Putin’s charge Ukraine gov’t is ‘fascist’ is a lie

Vol. 86/No. 21 - May 30, 2022

Russian President Vladimir Putin claims Moscow had to invade Ukraine to “denazify” the country. He propagates through his rigidly government-controlled media the charge that “neo-Nazis” and “far-right nationalists” took over Ukraine in 2014 in a “coup” backed by Washington and…



Chinese workers seethe over Shanghai COVID lockdown

Vol. 86/No. 19 - May 16, 2022
Working people protested eviction from their homes in Shanghai, mid-April, as apartment block was turned into COVID isolation facility. They were removed by cops in protective suits.

Weeks of rising anger toward government officials in response to severe COVID restrictions and accompanying food shortages spurred protests in Shanghai at the end of April.  Dozens of residents in Jinze, a Shanghai suburb, marched through the streets demanding food.…


May Day rallies across France protest Macron gov’t

Vol. 86/No. 19 - May 16, 2022
May Day rallies across France protest Macron gov’t

Some 250 rallies took place across France on May Day, with over 100,000 people protesting the anti-working-class policies of the newly reelected government of President Emmanuel Macron, especially his plan to raise the retirement age from 62 to 65. Among…


Railroad workers protest BNSF attack on unions and conditions

Vol. 86/No. 19 - May 16, 2022

OMAHA, Neb. — For three hours in a cold rain April 3, over 40 working train conductors and locomotive engineers, members of the SMART-Transportation Division and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen that work for the Burlington Northern Santa…