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,…
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…
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…
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 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…
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, 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…
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…
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…
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…
