Union City, South Hayward teachers strike for higher pay

Vol. 83/No. 23 - June 10, 2019

UNION CITY, Calif. — Teachers, counselors and students picketed outside Logan High School May 20, in the first strike ever at New Haven Unified District schools here and in South Hayward. “It’s the cost of living we’re up against,” social…


SWP: Oppose US threats on Iran, protest anti-Semitism

Vol. 83/No. 23 - June 10, 2019
Right, Steve Clark, Socialist Workers Party National Committee member, told New York Militant Labor Forum May 25 anti-Semitism is not a form of racism or xenophobia. As crisis deepens, capitalist rulers will promote Jew-hatred to divert workers from real source of economic and social catastrophe: capitalism. Below, anti-Semitic cartoon of Donald Trump and Netanyahu in New York Times. The editors later “apologized.”

NEW YORK — “The Socialist Workers Party unconditionally opposes U.S. threats and economic sanctions against Iran,” Socialist Workers Party National Committee member Steve Clark told those at the Militant Labor Forum here May 25. “We’re not predicting a war between…


Over the top! ‘Militant’ goes over goals in paper, book, fund drives

Vol. 83/No. 23 - June 10, 2019
Socialist Workers Party campaigner Sergio Zambrana, right, talks with aerospace worker Kyle Miller at Miller’s doorstep in Peru, New York, April 27, about party’s program and activities.

Welcome to those of you who subscribed to the Militant  during the just-concluded drive to expand the readership of the paper, bought books by Socialist Workers Party leaders and other working-class fighters, and helped raise $115,000 for the Militant Fighting…


Join fight against new censorship of ‘Militant’ in Florida prisons!

Vol. 83/No. 23 - June 10, 2019

Officials at the Florida State Prison and the New River Correctional Institution, both in Raiford, informed the Militant  May 28 that they had impounded two more issues of the working-class newsweekly. That brings to five the number of issues impounded…


2019 version of Roosevelt New Deal no road forward for working people

Vol. 83/No. 23 - June 10, 2019

The “Green New Deal,” the project of Democratic Socialists of America member and liberal media darling House member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other young self-anointed progressives, that’s backed by at least five of the Democratic Party presidential hopefuls, claims to address…