Dennis Richter, Socialist Workers Party candidate for vice president, introduces campaign to Robert Gray in Vermont July 9. So far 1,474 people have signed to put party on the ballot there.
Rachele Fruit president • Dennis Richter vice president

Socialist Workers Party campaign is only voice for the working class

SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. — On a hot, muggy afternoon July 9, Dennis Richter, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for vice president, joined campaigners here outside a Hannaford supermarket. He met Robert Gray, a telephone lineman from Happy Valley, Pennsylvania, who…


As I See It

French election reflects impact of crisis hitting working people

Over 100,000 marched in some 250 rallies across France May 1, 2022, including in Toulouse, above, demanding President Macron drop his move to raise workers’ retirement age. Protesters called themselves “gilets jaunes.” Banner reads, “Yellow vests of all countries, unite!”

The final results of the French elections were an “unexpected blow” to the “far right,” the Washington Post claimed July 7, declaring the result “one of the greatest political upsets in recent French history.” Like much of the capitalist media,…





Features

Mexican rulers surpass China as number one exporter to US

Unionists at ArcelorMittal Mexico vote on proposed contract in Michoacán, Mexico, July 9. Some 3,500 steelworkers, members of the miners union, struck May 24, demanding better wages and working conditions. The company fired 1,200, calling the action illegal.

Mexico has surpassed China as the number one source of goods imported by the United States. The sharpening tensions between Washington and Beijing, as well as the drive by capitalist bosses to tap sources of goods closer to their main…





Socialist Workers Party leadership sets course ahead

Adopts course to build union solidarity • defend constitutional freedoms • fight for wages, hours, job conditions that prevent families in working class from being torn apart • defend Cuba’s socialist revolution and its example in the U.S. and world over
International Educational Conference in Oberlin, Ohio, June 8-10, brought together over 330 people for reports, discussion on communist program, continuity and activities. Right, SWP literature table during conference.
OBERLIN, Ohio — “The sweeping indictment of Donald Trump under the Espionage Act by President Joseph…






Cuba and Chernobyl

This Cuban documentary produced in 2006 tells the story of the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe in Ukraine and Cuba’s exemplary internationalist medical program that treated more than 25,000 victims.