‘Workers need our own party,’ Fruit tells ‘Jewish Times’

Vol. 88/No. 22 - June 3, 2024

The following is an excerpt from an interview with SWP presidential candidate Rachele Fruit by Jillian Diamond that appeared in the Baltimore Jewish Times online May 17. It is slated to appear in the next print edition. BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES:…


US union raises aid for Ukrainian rail workers

Vol. 88/No. 22 - June 3, 2024

In an important example of international working-class solidarity, SMART-TD, the largest rail workers union in the U.S., is asking union locals and members to help collect much-needed personal protective equipment for rail workers in war-torn Ukraine. In a letter posted…




‘The SWP is unalterably opposed to all imperialist wars’

Vol. 88/No. 22 - June 3, 2024
Revolutionary leaders of SWP and Minneapolis Teamsters Local 544-CIO were sentenced to prison during World War II for leading opposition in labor movement to Washington’s drive to enter imperialist slaughter to win markets and power. Using Militant, pamphlets and Industrial Organizer, they won working-class support, defense of political rights.

Socialism on Trial, one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for May, contains the testimony of James P. Cannon, a founding leader of the Socialist Workers Party and then its national secretary, at the 1941 trial of 18 leaders of…


25, 50 and 75 years ago

Vol. 88/No. 22 - June 3, 2024

June 7, 1999 PASCAGOULA, Miss. — “Good news to Newport News, Ingalls workers want money too!” declares a picket sign at the main gate of Ingalls Shipbuilding in this Gulf Coast town. With 11,500 workers, it’s Mississippi’s largest private employer.…


School cleaners in Australia rally for better pay and conditions

Vol. 88/No. 22 - June 3, 2024

SYDNEY — Around 70 school cleaners, members of the United Workers Union, and their supporters rallied in pouring rain at Parramatta in west Sydney May 11 to protest low pay and the erosion of their working conditions. “I’ve been a…


Track workers demand sick days at Canadian Pacific Kansas City

Vol. 88/No. 22 - June 3, 2024
Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way workers picket at Canadian Pacific Kansas City community steam train event in Franklin Park, Illinois, May 8, in fight for paid sick leave.

FRANKLIN PARK, Ill. — “What do we want? Paid sick days!” chanted track workers and supporters outside the CPKC railroad’s community relations event here May 8. The rail bosses are touring a steam locomotive from Canada to Mexico to celebrate…



As we go to press:

Vol. 88/No. 21 - May 27, 2024

Washington state officials have informed the Socialist Workers Party that Henry Dennison, its candidate for U.S. Senate, is on the ballot!