Workers, families look for relief from price hikes, capitalist crisis

Vol. 86/No. 8 - February 28, 2022

How to win protection from the disastrous effects of the deep-rooted social crisis of capitalism is a question confronting more working people and our families today. It’s becoming harder and harder to start a family, or hold one together. Beginning…



To fight effects of rising prices, fight for cost of living protection

Vol. 86/No. 3 - January 24, 2022

Rising prices — especially on food, gas, rent and other necessities — are wreaking havoc with the lives of millions of working people. Strikes and other struggles by workers and their unions today for wage raises include demands for cost-of-living…



As prices of necessities rise, workers need unions to fight back

Vol. 85/No. 42 - November 15, 2021
Food prices have soared. Government doesn’t count ‘volatile’ figures in official inflation rate.

Rising prices on food, energy, rent and other necessities are upending the lives of millions of working people. Claims by government economists that this is just temporary are wearing thin. The government aids the bosses by making inflation appear lower…



Workers increasingly turn to our unions to fight assaults by bosses

Vol. 85/ No. 39 - October 25, 2021
Striking health care workers picket at Mercy Hospital in Buffalo, New York, Oct. 12, on day 12 of their strike for safe staffing, higher wages, especially for lowest-paid workers.

More workers are walking picket lines and using their unions to resist the bosses’ drive to overturn gains won in previous struggles and push for yet more concessions on wages, schedules and working conditions. Building support for each of these…


Using unions, building solidarity vital to defending working-class interests

Vol. 85/No. 35 - September 27, 2021
Fighting for safe staffing levels for themselves and patients, nurses picket St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts, Aug. 16. Six-month strike is longest nurses strike in 15 years.

“Organizing to support unionists on strike to defend their wages and working conditions today is crucial for expanding and strengthening the labor movement,” Dennis Richter, Socialist Workers Party candidate for California governor, told the Militant. “Spread the word about struggles…


What is driving the employers to attack working people today?

Vol. 85/No. 34 - September 20, 2021

The disastrous impact of the worldwide capitalist crisis of production and trade accelerated sharply at the start of the pandemic when government lockdowns led bosses to throw millions out of work. With competition among workers for jobs still severe today,…


Fight for shorter workweek with no pay cut to put us back to work!

Vol. 85/No. 32 - August 30, 2021

Workers today face an ongoing struggle for jobs, safe working conditions and enough pay to survive. Some are locked out or are on strike over boss demands to worsen workers’ conditions, including at the Warrior Met coal mine in Alabama,…