Drug prices soar as inflation ravages the working class

Vol. 88/No. 29 - August 5, 2024
Despite having insurance, Jeni Rae Peters in Rapid City, South Dakota, faces over $30,000 of debt in 2020, and threats from bill collectors, after paying for drugs to treat cancer. Some 25% of cancer patients in the U.S. are forced to declare bankruptcy or lose their homes.

While Democrats and the liberal media are heralding a government report saying the average monthly inflation rate is falling, prices on a broad range of essential goods working people need remain stubbornly high, and they’re not coming down. This reality…


US rulers push to reestablish stability in two party setup

Vol. 88/No. 29 - August 5, 2024
Presidential candidate Donald Trump with running mate J.D. Vance at Republican National Convention July 15. Trump demagogically pitches Republican campaign to “forgotten” working people.

For the first time in years, the capitalist rulers in the U.S. are making progress in reestablishing a measure of stability in the decades-old two-party political system. This doesn’t mean they have any answers to the economic and social crisis…


SWP gathers electors to get on ballot in Louisiana

Vol. 88/No. 29 - August 5, 2024
Dennis Richter, right, SWP candidate for vice president, brought solidarity to National Nurses United picket in contract fight July 17 at University Medical Center in New Orleans.

BOSSIER City, La. — Supporters of Rachele Fruit, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for president, and her running mate, Dennis Richter, campaigned from one end of Louisiana to the other July 16-23. Richter joined the campaign volunteers to bring what…


‘Break with the bosses’ parties and build a party of labor’

Vol. 88/No. 29 - August 5, 2024
Nurse Layla Bashir, left, speaks with Rachele Fruit, SWP candidate for president, signed to put her on Minnesota ballot July 22. Democrats and Republicans have no serious answers to social crisis working people face, while SWP campaign program gets a real response.

‘Why should I sign for the Socialist Workers Party?’ MINNEAPOLIS — “Hello! If this has anything to do with elections, I want to know what you are doing,” said Layla Bashir, waving Rachele Fruit over to her car outside a Target…


July 26: Building the leadership to make Cuba’s socialist revolution

Vol. 88/No. 29 - August 5, 2024
Leaders of July 26, 1953, attack on Cuban dictator’s Moncada military garrison, including, from left, Raúl Castro, Juan Almeida and Fidel Castro, leave Isle of Pines prison, May 15, 1955.

Seventy-one years ago on July 26, workers and youth, led by Fidel Castro, attacked the Moncada Barracks in Santiago de Cuba and the Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Garrison in Bayamo, opening the battle for Cuba’s socialist revolution. Without fear of…



Tehran’s allies expand drone, missile attacks on Jews, Israel

Vol. 88/No. 29 - August 5, 2024
Tel Aviv apartment damaged by Houthi drone attack July 19. Houthis, like Hamas and others in Tehran’s “axis of resistance,” seek to impose Hitler’s “Final Solution” on Jews in Israel.

In retaliation for a drone attack targeting civilians that killed one person in a Tel Aviv apartment building and wounded nine others July 19, the Israeli air force struck fuel tanks and a power plant in the Houthi-controlled port city…


For a fighting program for labor!

Vol. 88/No. 29 - August 5, 2024

Years of soaring prices at the grocery stores and gas stations, and for rent, health care, child care and more are felt in sharply different ways by working people and the ruling capitalist families. They’re upending our lives, dealing blows…


25, 50 and 75 years ago

Vol. 88/No. 29 - August 5, 2024

August 2, 1999 NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — Chants of “No Justice No Peace!” and “What Do We Want? A Contract! When Do We Want It? Now!” broke out as Steelworkers on strike at Newport News Shipbuilding and locked out at…


Death-row inmate fights to prove he’s not guilty

Vol. 88/No. 29 - August 5, 2024
Ruben Gutierrez on death row in Hunstville, Texas. His execution was halted 20 minutes before he was to be killed July 16. He says DNA test will show he’s innocent.

The U.S. Supreme Court halted the execution of death-row inmate Ruben Gutierrez July 16, just 20 minutes before he would have been put to death at the Huntsville, Texas, state penitentiary. When he got the news, Gutierrez “turned to the…