Back the working-class alternative to capitalist exploitation, oppression WASHINGTON, D.C. — “As conditions of life for the working class in the U.S. deteriorate and wars abroad escalate, millions of workers are being drawn into politics,” Rachele Fruit, the Socialist Workers…
Rachele Fruit, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. president, joined the SWP in Philadelphia in 1970, where she was active in the Student Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam. As a high school student she participated in civil…
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Carlos Harris walked out of Santa Clara County Jail Oct. 22, after having spent 20 years in California state prisons for a crime he did not commit. “I can’t believe that I’m out!” Harris, 53, exulted…
While Joseph Biden administration officials and boosters of Kamala Harris’ campaign insist the battle against inflation has been won, working people know from real life experience it just isn’t true. High prices on food, energy, housing, health care and just…
ARLINGTON, Va. — Hotel workers, members of UNITE HERE Local 25, rallied and marched to the four Hilton hotels here Oct. 17. They beat buckets and waved hand clappers and signs demanding “More in 24!” Their message to management: We…
November 15, 1999 NEW YORK — The crash of Egypt Air’s Flight 990 from New York to Cairo, which killed all 217 passengers and crew members, has highlighted once again the disregard of the airline bosses and aerospace manufacturers to…
CHARLEROI, Pa. — Hanna Rudovsky, left, a member of United Steelworkers Local 53G, spoke with Socialist Workers Party presidential candidate Rachele Fruit, third from left, during the shift change at Anchor Hocking’s Pyrex plant Oct. 29. Anchor Hocking, which recently…
WREXHAM, Wales — “We are here, we are stronger, and we will win this fight. It’s not impossible!” Joanna Kowalska, a striking Unite union member, told a rally of hundreds of food production workers here Oct. 18. Six hundred workers…
MONTREAL — Montreal port workers, members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 375, are stepping up their fight for safe and livable working conditions. They’ve been working without a contract since the beginning of the year, and their…
SAN FRANCISCO — Hundreds of UNITE HERE Local 2 members at the Palace and Marriott Union Square hotels here have joined the strike launched a month earlier at three other hotels. Some 2,000 workers are now picketing and chanting. Their…
