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Statement by Malcolm Jarrett, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Pittsburgh mayor, May 19. “Our strength does come from our sticking together,” Dave McCall, international vice president of the United Steelworkers, told a May 15 rally of striking steelworkers and their supporters in Louisville, Ohio. The support steelworkers are winning gives a glimpse of the potential for strengthening their strike against the union-busting bosses at ATI. Solidarity can make a difference in their fight, ...

By Terry Evans April 19, 2021 Persistent, large-scale unemployment — a result of the crisis of capitalist production and trade exacerbated by government lockdowns — remains the biggest challenge before working people today. Organizing a fight to get the millions who have been thrown out of work back into jobs is essential to put workers and our unions in a stronger position to fight as a class against the bosses’ attacks on our wages, wo...

Join the picket lines, send support, donations By Malcolm Jarrett April 19, 2021 Buffalo News/Robert KirkhamSteelworkers picket at ATI in Lockport, New York. Union members are on strike in five states. WASHINGTON, Pa. — “The concession stand is closed,” was the slogan used by Steelworkers at Allegheny Technologies Inc. when the bosses locked them out for seven months in 2015-16. Today some 1,300 United Steelworkers members are o...

By Terry Evans April 12, 2021 Economic Policy InstituteGap between the productivity squeezed out of workers and their pay has increased dramatically since 1979, as speedup led to a nearly 70% increase in workers’ productivity, while wages rose only 11.6%. Bosses are pushing even harder under crisis conditions unfolding today. Millions of workers have been forced into long-term joblessness by the crisis of the capitalist rulers and their prof...

By Seth Galinsky March 15, 2021 Militant/Jacquie HendersonMaggie Trowe, SWP candidate for Louisville mayor, and Dave Perry, right, discuss need for workers to organize themselves, with Gary Fabre at his home in Florence, Kentucky, Feb. 27. Bernie Senter, Socialist Workers Party candidate for California State Senate, and his supporters campaigned at the Marathon Petroleum refinery shift change in Carson, California, Feb. 23, and urged...

White House executive orders aim to hold workers in check By Terry Evans February 8, 2021 Chart shows steep fall in employment in 2020, even with partial recovery. Rate is falling again now. Workers need to be at work, alongside fellow workers, to fight attacks by bosses, gov’t. President Joe Biden spent his first days in office churning out executive orders, avoiding debate or vote by Congress. He aims to put a st...

By Seth Galinsky January 18, 2021 Militant/George ChalmersFactory worker Daniela Veloz subscribed to Militant after Alyson Kennedy, left, knocked on her door in Ennis, Texas, Jan. 4. Socialist Workers Party is building on success of its work last year to continue campaigning among working people in cities, towns and farm areas. In the midst of 2020’s capitalist economic, social and pandemic crisis, and government-ordered lockdowns, t...