Vol. 79/No. 2      January 26, 2015

Studer, 68, has been a staff writer since November 2011. He moved to New York from Philadelphia, where he was a leader of the Socialist Workers Party and worked at a Hyundai-Rotem rail car plant.

Studer participated in two Militant reporting teams to Ukraine in 2014, providing firsthand coverage after massive working-class mobilizations toppled the regime of Viktor Yanukovych in February and threw off Moscow’s long domination. Along with Frank Forrestal of Minneapolis, Studer covered struggles by working people defending Ukraine’s national sovereignty and combating attacks from that country’s propertied rulers on workers’ jobs, wages and social rights.

Doug Nelson served as the paper’s editor since 2012. He is taking on assignments to advance the SWP’s political work and strengthen the party’s participation in resistance by workers and unionists against the consequences of the capitalist crisis on employment, wages, job safety and social conditions of working people.

Craine, 44, moved to New York from Miami, where she was an SWP leader, worked most recently in a marine hardware factory, and has helped organize activities in defense of the Cuban Revolution and for freedom of the Cuban Five. She participated in the 2013 VII Continental Conference in Solidarity with Cuba in Caracas, Venezuela. As a participant, Craine covered for the Militant protests against the 2012 killing of Trayvon Martin by “neighborhood watch” vigilante George Zimmerman.

Craine has written for the socialist newsweekly for many years, including as a staff volunteer starting in 1992 and its editor from 1996 through 1999.

Like other writers for the Militant, both staff volunteers and worker correspondents, Studer and Craine have run as Socialist Workers Party candidates for public office, presenting a working-class course in face of assaults by the employing class and explaining to working people the need for a revolutionary struggle to conquer power from the capitalist rulers and their political parties, the Democrats and Republicans.

Studer was Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor of New York in 2014 and New York City comptroller in 2013. Craine was SWP candidate for governor of Florida this year and U.S. Senate in 2012.

Maggie Trowe, who joined the staff last summer, was the SWP’s vice-presidential candidate in 2000, and ran for Des Moines City Council in 2013 and Iowa state senate in 2012.

Staff writer Seth Galinsky was the SWP candidate for Queens borough president in 2013 and U.S. Congress from the 8th C.D. the previous year. Brian Williams was the party’s candidate for mayor of Houston in 2005. And business manager Lea Sherman ran for governor of California on the SWP ticket in 2010 and Congress from the 8th C.D. there in 2008.  
 
 
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