The economic and social crisis facing the working class today is reflected in articles in the capitalist press acknowledging that what they call the “American dream” — a steady job, home ownership, a family and comfortable retirement — is increasingly…
The one-year anniversary of Hamas’ Oct. 7 pogrom in Israel — the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust — is less than a month away. It’s a stark reminder of the deadly character of Nazi-like Jew-hatred in the imperialist…
ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY, Md. — “The fight to defend our class starts with building solidarity,” Dennis Richter, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. vice president, told striking Teamster member Jacinta Gamble as they walked the picket line in front of…
Rachele Fruit: ‘We need to build a party of labor’ BY SARA LOBMAN NEW YORK — “The fight over which class rules is the central question facing working people everywhere in the world,” Rachele Fruit told the 48 people at…
Tens of thousands of dockworkers, postal workers and machinists are fighting for union contracts that include wage increases to keep up with inflation, livable work schedules and safety on the job. In many cases they are up against not only…
SYDNEY — Over a hundred refugees and supporters of refugee rights gathered at Dorothy Reserve in Bankstown here Aug. 31, protesting conditions faced by asylum-seekers on longterm bridging visas in Australia. They called on the government to grant them permanent…
The Iranian government has been arresting opponents, especially in the Kurdish region, hoping to head off demonstrations on the second anniversary of the death of Zhina Amini. The young Kurdish woman died Sept. 16, 2022, after she was arrested in…
Dmitry Grinchiy, an 87-year-old pensioner, was recently assaulted by two hefty men on a Moscow bus for muttering about the former Wagner Group mercenaries and against the war in Ukraine. The assailants then forced the driver to take them to…
September 27, 1999 Working people around the world should oppose the imperialist intervention under way in East Timor. Its aim is to advance imperialist domination in the region and has nothing to do with helping the people of East Timor…
David Segal David Segal, a longtime friend and supporter of the Socialist Workers Party, died Aug. 27 after a long illness. He was 79 years old. Segal, who lived in New York City, regularly attended Militant Labor Forums, participating in…
