OAKLAND, Calif. — On July 13 Eric Simpson, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Congress in California’s District 12, delivered a letter of solidarity to Chabad of Oakland and joined worshipers in a meal there after their Shabbat service. Vandals…
MONTPELIER, Vt. — Dennis Richter, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. vice president, center rear, joined several campaign supporters at the Capitol here July 16 to file 1,138 certified signatures to place Rachele Fruit, the party’s presidential candidate, and…
The French edition of The First and Second Declarations of Havana: Manifestos of Revolutionary Struggle in the Americas Adopted by the Cuban People is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for July. This coincides with the July 26 anniversary…
Today millions of working people face a harsh reality — the economic, financial and social crises and the devastating world wars of the 20th century haven’t been consigned to history. While the ruling propertied families wield state power, the rapacious…
CORNWALL, Ontario — Over 9,000 workers at the Liquor Control Board of Ontario stores went on strike July 5, the first strike in their history. The members of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union had voted 97% to strike. Rallies…
LOS ANGELES — “We struck four times. Most important for me is that health care co-pays were held down,” Rosa Merino, a housekeeper at the Indigo hotel downtown here, told the Militant. She was part of a meeting of 150…
August 2, 1999 UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization held hearings here July 6 on Puerto Rico’s colonial status and approved a resolution supporting that Latin American nation’s right to self-determination, including independence. The committee heard…
SEATTLE — Rachele Fruit, Socialist Workers Party candidate for president of the United States, spoke out on the importance of the fight against Jew-hatred at a rally of some 100 people in defense of the existence of Israel July 14…
Thomas Matthew Crooks came within a hair’s breadth of assassinating Donald Trump when he opened fire with a semi-automatic AR-15 rifle at the Republican presidential candidate, who was speaking at a campaign rally of thousands in Butler, Pennsylvania, July 13.…
The July 9-11 summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization held in Washington, D.C., highlighted the dangers of wider wars worldwide driven by deepening conflicts unfolding today between the world’s capitalist rulers. NATO was one of the institutions Washington put…
