‘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!


SWP campaign expands reach of ‘Militant,’ Pathfinder books

Vol. 88/No. 21 - May 27, 2024
“Immigrant workers in the U.S. work hard, one day we’ll go on strike across the country,” Norma Ribas, right, told Alyson Kennedy, SWP candidate for U.S. Senate from Texas, May 13.

Rachele Fruit, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. president, is winning a growing hearing in cities across the U.S. and Canada for the party’s call for workers to break with all the capitalist rulers’ parties and build a labor party…


Canadian rulers move to bar national rail strike

Vol. 88/No. 21 - May 27, 2024

MONTREAL — The Canadian government has assigned its Canada Industrial Relations Board to determine whether a work stoppage of the freight rail system would jeopardize “health and safety of Canadians” and if “essential services” should be maintained in the event…


As Moscow hits Kharkiv region, soldiers’ deaths spur protests

Vol. 88/No. 21 - May 27, 2024
“Solo protest” in Moscow Jan. 6, says, “Freedom for mobilized. Bring back husbands, fathers, sons!” The Way Home group, families of Russian conscripts, denounced Putin’s May 9 rally, “Did our ancestors truly sacrifice their lives so we would be drawn into this [Ukraine] war?”

In an escalation of Vladimir Putin’s murderous war against the people of Ukraine, Moscow’s tanks attacked across Ukraine’s northeastern border May 10 for the first time since the early weeks of its invasion in 2022. Ukrainian reserves are engaged in…


Judge makes a mockery of the Constitution in NY Trump trial

Vol. 88/No. 21 - May 27, 2024

The right to a fair trial and free speech were dealt serious blows by Judge Juan Merchan as part of the prosecution of presidential candidate Donald Trump initiated by New York City District Attorney Alvin Bragg, a Democrat. Bragg ran…