MANCHESTER, England — Forty production workers at Saica Paper UK here have been carrying out a series of one-day strikes for higher pay and better job conditions. The Unite union members voted 97% in favor of strike action after rejecting…
The following is a statement by Alyson Kennedy, who was the SWP 2023 candidate for mayor in Fort Worth, Texas. She won 5.2% of the vote. The 2024 presidential election is well on, with Democratic and Republican candidates throwing their…
Statement by Seth Galinsky, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New York City Council, May 3. There are more openings to strengthen our unions today, to join labor and working-class struggles and to build solidarity. Working people need to be prepared…
PAJARO, Calif. — There has been an outpouring of solidarity for workers whose homes were flooded here when a levee broke March 11. Some 200 volunteers turned out April 15 to help flood victims clean up mud, rip out water…
Below are excerpts from the preface to The Low Point of Labor Resistance Is Behind Us: The Socialist Workers Party Looks Forward by SWP leader Mary-Alice Waters. Copyright © 2023 by Pathfinder Press. Reprinted by permission. The articles and documents…
In Militant issue no. 17, the headline on page 6 was misspelled. It should have read “Back Ukraine independence fight!”
Two-tier wages, part-time jobs, dangerous conditions, schedules that wreak havoc with workers’ lives and constant company harassment are what bosses impose on millions of workers. These are the conditions the Teamsters at UPS are fighting to change as they rally…
The reactionary capitalist government in Iran is trying to reimpose its dress code for women and beat back the widespread political debate that exploded after the hated morality police took Zhina Amini, a young Kurdish woman, into custody, leading to…
The Iranian government arrested Mohammad Habibi, a leader of the Coordinating Council of Iranian Teachers Trade Unions, April 5, at the school where he teaches in Shahryar near Tehran. He was just released from jail on Feb. 8 after nearly…
Jorge Sariol, a journalist for Revista ANAP, magazine of the National Association of Small Farmers in Cuba, reported on a Feb. 24 visit by socialist workers from the U.S. and the U.K. to the Cuban-Bulgarian Friendship Agricultural Cooperative in Güines,…
