Rulers across Europe boost militaries, war preparations

Vol. 88/No. 24 - June 17, 2024
Nine NATO powers, from U.S. and Europe, engage in joint military exercise in Poland, involving 20,000 troops with tanks and other armored vehicles, including crossing of Vistula River, above, March 4. Operation Dragon 24 was designed as a test response to attack by Moscow.

Rivalries, trade wars and the growing threat of more shooting wars are a reality across the capitalist world today. This future underscores the stakes for working people in organizing to take political power out of the capitalist rulers’ hands. Nowhere…


Molson Coors workers return to work after hard-fought strike

Vol. 88/No. 24 - June 17, 2024

FORT WORTH, Texas — After a three-month hard-fought strike, members of Teamsters Local 997 at Molson Coors Brewery here accepted a three-year contract May 22. Workers said 270 voted yes and 84 voted no. They began returning to work May…



SWP campaign prepares to file for ballot in Tennessee

Vol. 88/No. 24 - June 17, 2024

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — “I don’t believe in the other candidates,” Lycinda Richards, a disabled worker living in Johnson City, told Socialist Workers Party campaigners Arrin Hawkins and Richard Hazboun when they knocked on her door May 18. Hawkins and Hazboun…


SWP files petitions to put party on New Jersey ballot

Vol. 88/No. 24 - June 17, 2024
Lea Sherman, left, SWP candidate for Congress, and Joanne Kuniansky, SWP candidate for U.S. Senate, turn in twice the required signatures to be placed on New Jersey ballot May 31 in Trenton, accompanied by Ved Dookhun, SWP candidate for U.S. Senate from Pennsylvania.

UNION CITY, N.J. — “Two SWP candidates file as independents,” the Hudson County View reported June 1. Joanne Kuniansky, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Senate from New Jersey, and Lea Sherman, the party’s candidate for Congress, filed petitions…


Richter: Trump conviction is blow to rights of working people

Vol. 88/No. 24 - June 17, 2024

CINCINNATI — “The conviction of Donald Trump was celebrated in huge headlines in the Dallas-Fort Worth newspapers and liberal media across the country,” Dennis Richter, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. vice president, told supporters at a June 1 campaign…


New endorser backs SWP call for labor party

Vol. 88/No. 24 - June 17, 2024
New endorser backs SWP call for labor party

EL RENO, Okla. — “America needs an independent labor party from the workers,” Robert Stock said as he signed a card to endorse the campaign of Rachele Fruit, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. president, June 2. Stock, above left,…



US, UN-led intervention forces will fuel, not solve, crisis in Haiti

Vol. 88/No. 24 - June 17, 2024
From 1957 to 1986, U.S.-backed regimes of Francois (Papa Doc) and Jean-Claude (Baby Doc} Duvalier used notorious Tonton Macoutes paramilitary force, shown above on parade, to eliminate foes and terrorize working people. Their brutal rule was backed by Washington.

MIAMI — The Joseph Biden administration seized on the May 23 killing of three Christian missionaries working in Haiti — two Americans and a Haitian — to call for an “expedited deployment” of a multinational military force to fight powerful…