Amnesty for immigrant workers! Unify working class

Vol. 84/No. 16 - April 27, 2020

The social crisis unfolding today — marked by mass layoffs, attacks on working conditions and skirmishes with the bosses — is hitting hardest on working people. The propertied rulers seek to salvage, off our backs, their profits system and their…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 84/No. 16 - April 27, 2020

May 1, 1995 WASHINGTON, D.C. — “The struggle the Cuban people are waging is a struggle for dignity, sovereignty, and the independence of our nation,” stated Cuban youth leader Kenia Serrano to an audience of some 95 people April 5…


Bangladesh garment workers protest for jobs, pay

Vol. 84/No. 16 - April 27, 2020

“We want our wages!” and “Break the black hands of the owners!” shouted thousands of garment workers as they protested in Dhaka, Bangladesh, April 13. Actions started April 12 and continued for days. They hit all the major production centers…


Letters

Vol. 84/No. 16 - April 27, 2020

Open the libraries! Thank your for your excellent coverage of the coronavirus epidemic and how it’s being used to attack the working class. One other institution vital for the working class that has been shut down are the libraries. These…


Use the bosses’ ‘blood money’ to build SWP

Vol. 84/No. 16 - April 27, 2020

“Enclosed is the ‘blood money’ bribe I got from Walmart for $489.03,” wrote Chris Hoeppner from Philadelphia. “Use the money to build the Socialist Workers Party. They cut hours and are increasing the workload to massively increase their profits and…



Demand gov’t-funded public works program to provide millions of jobs!

Vol. 84/No. 16 - April 27, 2020

Socialist Workers Party 2020 presidential candidate Alyson Kennedy issued this statement April 15 in Washington, D.C. Malcolm Jarrett is the party’s vice presidential candidate. As the capitalist rulers debate how fast they can ease up on their shutdown of workplaces…


Cuba vs US: Counterposed class approaches to human solidarity

Vol. 84/No. 15 - April 20, 2020
Suchel Camacho soap factory, Havana. Revolutionary government in Cuba is organizing working people to increase food, industrial production in face of world capitalist economic crisis.

Many working people in the United States are inspired when they learn how revolutionary Cuba confronts crises from hurricanes, droughts or today’s coronavirus outbreak, as opposed to the capitalist rulers in the U.S. and elsewhere. Tens of thousands of members…


Workers say ‘Yes!’ to giving ‘blood money’ to build SWP

Vol. 84/No. 15 - April 20, 2020

During the last week in March, Walmart workers from five cities sent in a total of $1,774 to help build the Socialist Workers Party from MyShare bonuses — attempted bribes  — they received from the bosses. “I’m writing a check…


Toilers face brutal attacks from governments in Africa

Vol. 84/No. 15 - April 20, 2020

“Imperialism is determined, it has no conscience, it has no heart,” explained Thomas Sankara, the leader of the popular revolutionary government in Burkina Faso in 1985. “Fortunately the more we’ve discovered how dangerous an enemy imperialism is, the more determined…