25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 85/ No. 39 - October 25, 2021

October 28, 1996 WASHINGTON, D.C. — “No human being is illegal!” appeared on countless hand-lettered signs among the thousands of demonstrators who converged October 12 for the first national demonstration for the rights of immigrants. Mexican, Chicano, Puerto Rican, and…


‘Cuban Revolution: a challenge to US imperialism’

Cuban representative speaks on US economic war, campaign of lies against socialist revolution
Vol. 85/ No. 39 - October 25, 2021

BY MARTÍN KOPPEL, MARY-ALICE WATERS, AND RÓGER CALERO NEW YORK — Carlos Fernández de Cossío, head of the Cuban foreign ministry’s department for U.S. affairs, was in New York at the end of September for the opening session of the…


Workers increasingly turn to our unions to fight assaults by bosses

Vol. 85/ No. 39 - October 25, 2021
Striking health care workers picket at Mercy Hospital in Buffalo, New York, Oct. 12, on day 12 of their strike for safe staffing, higher wages, especially for lowest-paid workers.

More workers are walking picket lines and using their unions to resist the bosses’ drive to overturn gains won in previous struggles and push for yet more concessions on wages, schedules and working conditions. Building support for each of these…


Stalinist coup killed Maurice Bishop, Grenada Revolution

Vol. 85/ No. 39 - October 25, 2021
Maurice Bishop and Fidel Castro at 1980 May Day rally in Cuba. Castro said Grenada Revolution was ”a true symbol of independence and progress in the Caribbean” worthy of support.

To commemorate the 1979-83 Grenada Revolution, which was overthrown by a Stalinist coup led by Bernard Coard in October 1983, we are running excerpts from “The Second Assassination of Maurice Bishop” by Steve Clark, a leader of the Socialist Workers…



Louisville forum: ‘SWP is on its way to Cincinnati!’

Vol. 85/ No. 39 - October 25, 2021
Maggie Trowe, at podium, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of Louisville, Kentucky, and Anthony Dutrow, right, member of the SWP National Committee, talk about political opportunities ahead as SWP members move to Cincinnati, at Oct. 2 Militant Labor Forum.

LOUISVILLE, Kentucky — At a special Militant Labor Forum here Oct. 2, the Socialist Workers Party announced its members in Louisville were moving to Cincinnati to take advantage of opportunities to deepen their involvement in the labor movement and build…


John Deere workers reject contract, set strike

Vol. 85/ No. 39 - October 25, 2021

By a 90% margin, over 10,000 United Auto Workers union members at more than a dozen John Deere plants in Iowa, Illinois and Kansas rejected a contract the agricultural-implements company bosses and union officials had agreed on. The union set…


Join Socialist Workers Party campaign!

Vol. 85/ No. 39 - October 25, 2021

Statement by Joanne Kuniansky, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New Jersey governor, Oct. 13. In the three weeks left before the 2021 elections, Socialist Workers Party candidates will present a program for the working class to defend our interests and…


Celebrate political life of Maurice Williams

Vol. 85/ No. 39 - October 25, 2021

Maurice Williams, a former member and longtime friend of the Socialist Workers Party, died Oct. 5 from COVID complications in the UAB Hospital in Birmingham. He worked at U.S. Steel in Fairfield, Alabama, for over a dozen years where he…