Fruit: ‘Working-class solidarity in North Carolina an example’

Vol. 88/No. 41 - November 4, 2024
Rachele Fruit, left, SWP candidate for president, speaks with Polly Augenstein Oct. 18. Coming from Pittsburgh, she is staffing free shower, laundry facilities in Swannanoa, North Carolina.

ASHEVILLE, N.C. — “We started with no supplies, but within a few days we had to open a warehouse to hold all the contributions that were pouring in for victims of the hurricane,” Isabel Beteta told Rachele Fruit, the Socialist…


Boeing strikers discuss, vote on a tentative new contract

Vol. 88/No. 41 - November 4, 2024

RENTON, Wash. — The 33,000 Machinists at Boeing voted Oct. 23 on a third contract offer from Boeing. It includes a 35% pay hike over four years, a $7,000 ratification bonus and an increase in the company’s contribution to the…


End US rulers’ economic, trade and political war against Cuba!

Vol. 88/No. 41 - November 4, 2024
Fidel Castro addresses million-strong rally in February 1962 as workers and farmers made socialist revolution in Cuba. “Second Declaration of Havana” adopted there was call to action to working people across Americas, world to join in fight against U.S. imperialism.

For more than six decades, the U.S. capitalist rulers have tried by every means possible — from organizing the Bay of Pigs invasion to nuclear confrontation to terrorist bombings to an over 60-year-long, ever-tightening economic embargo — to try to…


SWP campaigners find real interest in ‘Militant,’ party

Vol. 88/No. 41 - November 4, 2024

“When the Key Bridge collapsed, truckers were promised funds by the government. But that doesn’t mean we saw any money,” Ernest Beard, a trucker and a veteran, told James Harris, Socialist Workers Party candidate for D.C. delegate to the U.S.…


Why fight to defend constitutional freedoms is key for working class

Vol. 88/No. 41 - November 4, 2024

Safeguarding freedom of speech, assembly and worship, the right to bear arms, and other constitutional protections are at the center of politics and the class struggle, and will remain so regardless of which party controls the White House after the…


Dominican gov’t deports 1,000s of Haitians as crisis in Haiti deepens

Vol. 88/No. 41 - November 4, 2024

The capitalist rulers of the Dominican Republic stepped up their crackdown on Haitian immigrants, announcing Oct. 2 they would deport 10,000 every week. Dominican President Luis Abinader demagogically claims this will defend the interests of “the Dominican people,” who, he…


Philadelphia rail worker endorses SWP campaign

Vol. 88/No. 41 - November 4, 2024

PHILADELPHIA — Rachele Fruit, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. president, sat down with Victor Guzman during her campaign stop here, Oct. 16. Guzman is a freight rail conductor and member of the SMART-TD union. He met with Fruit…



US presses Ukraine to settle as toilers defend nat’l sovereignty

Vol. 88/No. 41 - November 4, 2024
Ukrainian troops inspect crashed Iranian-made drone. Moscow has targeted Ukraine with 8,000 drones since 2022. Even with 90% shot down, thousands of civilian casualties resulted.

Ukrainian working people are at the forefront of the fight to resist Moscow’s assault on their national sovereignty. But they also confront efforts by Washington and its allies to pressure the Ukrainian government to end its resistance. Moscow’s invasion has…


Working people in Iran stand up to rulers’ warmongering

Vol. 88/No. 41 - November 4, 2024
Oil workers in Ahvaz, Iran, at weekly “protest Tuesday” Oct. 22, one of more than a dozen at oil facilities to demand higher wages, full retirement benefits, improved conditions on the job.

Despite attempts by the reactionary capitalist regime in Iran to whip up support among working people for its escalating confrontation with Israel and convince workers now is not the time for protests, growing numbers of workers are taking to the…