New endorser backs SWP call for labor party

Vol. 88/No. 24 - June 17, 2024
New endorser backs SWP call for labor party

EL RENO, Okla. — “America needs an independent labor party from the workers,” Robert Stock said as he signed a card to endorse the campaign of Rachele Fruit, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. president, June 2. Stock, above left,…


Richter: Trump conviction is blow to rights of working people

Vol. 88/No. 24 - June 17, 2024

CINCINNATI — “The conviction of Donald Trump was celebrated in huge headlines in the Dallas-Fort Worth newspapers and liberal media across the country,” Dennis Richter, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. vice president, told supporters at a June 1 campaign…


SWP files petitions to put party on New Jersey ballot

Vol. 88/No. 24 - June 17, 2024
Lea Sherman, left, SWP candidate for Congress, and Joanne Kuniansky, SWP candidate for U.S. Senate, turn in twice the required signatures to be placed on New Jersey ballot May 31 in Trenton, accompanied by Ved Dookhun, SWP candidate for U.S. Senate from Pennsylvania.

UNION CITY, N.J. — “Two SWP candidates file as independents,” the Hudson County View reported June 1. Joanne Kuniansky, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Senate from New Jersey, and Lea Sherman, the party’s candidate for Congress, filed petitions…


SWP campaign prepares to file for ballot in Tennessee

Vol. 88/No. 24 - June 17, 2024

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — “I don’t believe in the other candidates,” Lycinda Richards, a disabled worker living in Johnson City, told Socialist Workers Party campaigners Arrin Hawkins and Richard Hazboun when they knocked on her door May 18. Hawkins and Hazboun…


Baluch farmers in Iran protest mine expansion

Vol. 88/No. 24 - June 17, 2024
Baluch farmers in Iran protest mine expansion

Baluch farmers have been blocking the entrance (above) to a copper mine in Rameshk in Iran’s Kerman province for over a month and a half. They are protesting the confiscation of their farmland without compensation by the mine owners and…


May 19 named ‘Malcolm X Day’ in Nebraska

Vol. 88/No. 24 - June 17, 2024

LINCOLN, Neb. — After nearly 20 years of campaigning by advocates of recognition of Malcolm X, a revolutionary leader of the international working class, he was inducted into the Nebraska Hall of Fame May 22. His bronze bust, made by…


Hospitals sue patients over medical debts

Vol. 88/No. 24 - June 17, 2024
Lionel and Brenda White, in Charlotte, North Carolina, agreed to monthly payments on medical bills to put off threat of legal action. Whites said they feared losing their house. Bills totaled $50,529, more than each one earns in a year.

Hospitals, especially in rural areas, are increasingly filing suit against patients for unpaid medical bills that run into the tens of billions of dollars. Some 15 million people in the U.S. owe money to area hospitals, an example of the…


Why the SWP calls for a labor party

Vol. 88/No. 24 - June 17, 2024

The impact of today’s economic, social and moral crisis of capitalism on tens of millions poses the need for workers to break from the Democrats and Republicans and all other capitalist parties and build a labor party based on the…


25, 50 and 75 years ago

Vol. 88/No. 24 - June 17, 2024

June 14, 1999 HAVANA, Cuba — “We’re not veterans — we’re combatants,” Brig. Gen. Gustavo Chui affirmed. “As members of the Association of Combatants of the Cuban Revolution, we’re engaged in the day-to-day struggle for the unconditional defense of our…


Workers go on strike at Cargill’s beef-processing plant in Ontario

Vol. 88/No. 24 - June 17, 2024

GUELPH, Ontario –— Hundreds of workers at the Cargill beef-processing plant here, members of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 175, hit the picket line May 27 the day after an 82% vote against a proposed offer. Cargill’s Guelph plant…