Fruit: ‘Back striking Boeing workers! Build solidarity’ MIAMI — On a steamy morning here Sept. 15 Socialist Workers Party presidential candidate Rachele Fruit met workers at the International Longshoremen’s Association Local 1416 hall to learn more about their fight for…
The following statement was released Sept. 17 by Rachele Fruit, a member of UNITE HERE and Socialist Workers Party candidate for president. The war between labor and capital is the central issue of the 2024 presidential election campaign. In the…
“The economic war” waged by the U.S. government “is the main cause of the hardships facing the Cuban people, and the country’s economy,” Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez said in a special media presentation in Havana Sept. 12. Rodríguez detailed…
“I agree, a labor party is needed to draw together everyone, unionized or not, as well as others like farmers and mom-and-pop business owners,” Jesse Dansby, right, a board operator and striker at the Marathon oil refinery in Detroit, told…
The reactionary capitalist regime in Iran prevented the family of Zhina “Mahsa” Amini from holding a commemoration at her graveside in Saqqez on the second anniversary of her death. But thousands of small businesses and workers went on strike across…
As the one-year anniversary of Hamas’ Oct. 7 pogrom against Jews in Israel approaches, Israeli forces keep making progress in dismantling the Nazi-like group, while dealing blows to Hezbollah in Lebanon. The goal of both Tehran-financed groups is to destroy…
It’s now been nearly five months since Militant issue no. 17 was impounded by Jackson Correctional Institution prison authorities in Malone, Florida. Every day that goes by without the overturn of the ban is a serious violation of prisoners’ constitutional…
The falling birth rate and rising obstacles workers face to being able to afford to raise children have become key issues in the 2024 presidential campaign. Decades of employer attacks on wages and working conditions have made starting a family…
Under capitalism workers are expendable if they can’t labor to create profits for the ruling rich. Under this dog-eat-dog system, responsibility for caring for children or older relatives increasingly falls on their family. “The Crushing Financial Burden of Aging at…
The Socialist Workers Party has launched an ambitious campaign over the final two months of the 2024 elections to expand the reach of the Militant, the SWP campaign of Rachele Fruit for president and Dennis Richter for vice president, books…
