‘What’s missing in Maui is a working-class voice’

Vol. 87/No. 34 - September 11, 2023

“There’s going to be a lot of finger pointing between the city government and the state and the electric company about who’s to blame for the fire,” Sergio Alcubilla, executive director of the Honolulu-based Hawaii Workers Center, told the Militant…


Atlanta rally backs actors, Writers Guild strikers

Vol. 87/No. 34 - September 11, 2023

ATLANTA — More than 800 unionists rallied here Aug. 22 as part of the National Day of Solidarity with striking members of the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists and the Writers Guild of America. SAG-AFTRA members…


Election in Argentina deepens crisis facing working people

Vol. 87/No. 34 - September 11, 2023
Market in Buenos Aires, Aug. 10, 2022 where customers can pay vendors in rapidly deflating cash or exchange goods through barter. Inflation has gone over 100% annually, one of world’s highest.

Whichever candidate wins the presidential election in Argentina in October will only mean more hardships for working people. In the midst of the deep capitalist crisis shaking the country, the solutions offered by all the capitalist politicians foreshadow belt-tightening measures,…


Amy Belvin: ‘Lifelong commitment to the SWP’

Vol. 87/No. 34 - September 11, 2023
Display at Aug. 26 meeting in Lexington, Kentucky, showed political work done by Amy Belvin.

LEXINGTON, Ky. — “Amy Belvin was passionate about the fight for a better world,” explained Socialist Workers Party member Amy Husk, one of a number of speakers at the Aug. 26 celebration of her life. Organized by Rev. Brian Chenowith…


Ex-prisoners make gains on right to vote in Mississippi

Vol. 87/No. 34 - September 11, 2023
Federal judges in Mississippi ruled 2-1 Aug. 4 to restore voting rights for former felons. Above, from left, former prisoners Wayne Kuhn, Dennis Hopkins, Byron Coleman and Jon O’Neal at press conference in Jackson, Mississippi, in 2018, demanding their right to vote.

In a victory for working people, the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals decided Aug. 4, by a 2-1 vote, to end Mississippi’s lifetime ban on the right of ex-felons to vote. The lawsuit under consideration was filed by six…


As 2024 election looms, Socialist Workers Party is the alternative

Vol. 87/No. 34 - September 11, 2023

The centerpiece of President Joseph Biden’s reelection campaign is denouncing former President Donald Trump and his supporters as “MAGA Republicans” and hailing the four indictments against his Republican opponent. Democrats, Never-Trump Republicans and the middle-class left are determined to drive…


What’s the road forward for the working people in the Mideast?

Vol. 87/No. 34 - September 11, 2023

Talks toward a diplomatic deal between the rulers of Israel and Saudi Arabia are taking place at the same time that tensions in the Middle East are rising and preparations made for more wars. These conflicts occur amid the unraveling…