Thousands of Amazon workers across Italy struck for 24 hours March 22 after talks over onerous schedules and working conditions for delivery workers broke down. This was the first national strike against Amazon there, involving warehouse workers, drivers and those…
Statement by Sara Lobman, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Manhattan Borough president, March 24. The fight to defend women’s rights and end forever the second-class status of women is part and parcel of the working class charting a course to…
LINCOLN, Neb. — “Our party is organizing solidarity with the locked-out Marathon oil workers fight in Minnesota and any other struggles by working people,” Joe Swanson, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Lincoln City Council, told a campaign meeting here March…
ATLANTA — On March 16 Robert Aaron Long, a 21-year-old Caucasian, shot and killed eight people at three massage spas, two in Atlanta and one in nearby Cherokee County. Six of the eight people killed were Korean- or Chinese-American women,…
The Socialist Workers Party special “stimulus” capital appeal, for the long-term work of the party, is off to a strong start. Within a week of the government sending out the first of the most recent “stimulus” payments the fund total…
MINNEAPOLIS — At a lively and well-attended public forum here March 20, the Socialist Workers Party launched its campaign of Doug Nelson for mayor of Minneapolis. Nelson and campaign spokesperson Kevin Dwire spoke, addressing the fight of locked-out Marathon Petroleum…
LONDON — Some 1,500 people joined a protest vigil in Clapham Common, south London, March 13, following the killing of Sarah Everard, a 33-year-old marketing executive. Demonstrators were attacked by the police who pinned some women to the ground, handcuffed…
TORONTO — The 300 Canadian Union of Brewery and General Workers Local 325 members continue to picket 24/7 in front of the Molson Coors brewery here. They were locked out on Feb. 20 after rejecting the company’s contract offer. The…
The authoritarian government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey moved to ban the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), the nation’s third-largest and chief opposition party, March 18. The HDP was formed in 2012 to represent the fight for national rights of…
BESSEMER, Ala. — In the final week of the vote over union representation at the giant Amazon fulfillment center here, solidarity with those fighting for a “yes” vote has picked up. The voting, conducted by mail-in ballot by the National…
