SWP on ballot in Washington, candidates file in New Jersey

Vol. 87/No. 23 - June 12, 2023
Lea Sherman, center, SWP candidate for New Jersey General Assembly, and Joanne Kuniansky, party’s candidate for State Senate, filed for ballot status in Trenton May 26. From left, campaign supporter Rich Ariza and Osborne Hart, Philadelphia SWP City Council candidate.

Socialist Workers Party campaigners are introducing the party’s candidates and the working-class road forward — on workers’ doorsteps, at strike picket lines, and at protests in defense of workers’ interests, like actions called to oppose Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. Through…



Blue Bird workers vote in United Steelworkers union

Vol. 87/No. 23 - June 12, 2023

FORT VALLEY, Ga. — Socialist Workers Party members from Atlanta traveled 90 miles south to talk with workers here about the union-organizing drive victory at the Blue Bird Corp. school bus assembly plant. Workers voted 697-435 to be represented by…


Writers Guild strikers rally at Rockefeller Center

Vol. 87/No. 23 - June 12, 2023

NEW YORK — Over 500 members and supporters of the striking Writers Guild of America union rallied outside Rockefeller Center here May 23. Mike Karnell, who has been a writer for seven years, told the Militant that he believes striking…


Workers in East Palestine discuss politics, derailment

Vol. 87/No. 23 - June 12, 2023

EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — At the street fair going on here, Nancy Felger, a retired health care worker and former shop steward of her Service Employees International Union local, told Socialist Workers Party member Candace Wagner that she heard that…


Toxic chemical fires poison East Texas

Vol. 87/No. 23 - June 12, 2023

Since the beginning of May there have been three fires at refineries and chemical plants near Houston, with one worker dead and over a dozen injured. Like the disaster in East Palestine, Ohio, these dangers are a product of the…


Capitalist crisis drives birth rate, life expectancy down

Vol. 87/No. 23 - June 12, 2023

As prices continue to rise, especially on necessities like food, housing and health care, and as the worldwide decline in capitalist production and trade threatens layoffs, insistence by Joseph Biden administration officials that the economy is doing well ring hollow.…


Why you should join the SWP campaign

Vol. 87/No. 23 - June 12, 2023

Statement by Seth Galinsky, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New York City Council, May 31. The Socialist Workers Party’s 2024 campaigns are beginning, with Laura Garza announcing her campaign for U.S. Senate in California at a sizable labor rally in…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 87/No. 23 - June 12, 2023

June 15, 1998 Working people everywhere should support the fight by 5,300 transit workers in Philadelphia to push back the city government’s attempt to deal blows to the Transport Workers Union. This fight is another example of the increasing numbers…


Rail workers send solidarity to residents in East Palestine

Working people step up fight after toxic derailment
Vol. 87/No. 22 - June 5, 2023
Shell chemical fire in Deer Park, near Houston, May 5, one of several recent disasters in East Texas. Big business drive for profits causes such “accidents,” as it did in East Palestine, Ohio.

PITTSBURGH — “By speaking out and supporting efforts to hold the nation’s rail carriers accountable,” SMART-TD, the rail conductors’ union, proclaimed in its spring 2023 newsletter, “We do our part to keep what happened in East Palestine from happening again.”…