Month: April 2024

SWP campaigners fan out to put Rachele Fruit on New Jersey ballot
Working-class alternative to Biden-Trump-Kennedy

New Jersey, New York SWP candidates explain program BY ROY LANDERSEN UNION CITY, N.J. — “Every four years the Socialist Workers Party has a special opportunity to contest with the capitalist rulers’ candidates to become president of the United States,…

‘What’s wrong with the economy? It’s you, not the data,’ paper tells workers

The Joseph Biden administration and liberal media praying for his reelection describe the latest government economic reports at the beginning of April as big improvements for everyone. But working people, whose experiences are quite different, aren’t buying it. “What’s Wrong…

Court gag orders to shut Trump up are blow to free speech

Judge Juan Merchan issued a gag order March 26 in an effort to further silence Donald Trump, President Joseph Biden’s main rival among the three main capitalist candidates for the White House. This assault on free speech is an attempt…

Campaign to expand reach of ‘Militant,’ books, fund March 9-May 7 (week 4)

25, 50, and 75 Years Ago

April 26, 1999 The big-business media and U.S. officials would have us believe that workers and farmers in the Balkans have been reduced to weeping Albanian refugees from Kosova, “uncivilized” Serbs seeking “ethnic cleansing,” and corpses. Even to those repelled…

How Marxists in the US helped lead in overthrow of slavery

Revolutionary Continuity: The Early Years 1848-1917 by Farrell Dobbs is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for April. This is the first of two volumes covering class struggles and political battles behind the development of a Marxist leadership in…

‘Woke’ constitutional amendments rejected in Ireland

LONDON — An attempt by Ireland’s capitalist rulers to impose their values on working people blew up in their faces March 8 when two constitutional amendments, backed by the country’s main capitalist parties, were soundly defeated by large margins in…

New rail crew regulation no substitute for union power

LINCOLN, Neb. — Under pressure from a series of recent derailments and other rail disasters, including the explosive toxic fire in East Palestine, Ohio, the Federal Railroad Administration adopted April 2 a “Train Crew Size Safety Requirement” that will supposedly…

Ottawa’s turn against Israel spurs Jew-hatred in Canada

MONTREAL — After a daylong debate March 19, the Canadian Parliament adopted a motion approving Ottawa’s shift away from its longstanding support of Israel’s armed forces defending the country from attack. The motion adopted, proposed by the social democratic New…

Canadian National Autoport workers vote up new contract

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia — Unifor Local 100 members at Autoport in Eastern Passage voted to accept the latest company offer and return to work. The plant is a wholly owned subsidiary of Canadian National Railway. The deal provides 3%, 2.5%…