Below are the first two chapters of the new 2024 edition of Cosmetics, Fashion, and the Exploitation of Women by Mary-Alice Waters, Evelyn Reed and Joseph Hansen, available in December. Waters is a longtime leader of the Socialist Workers Party and…
The BRICS alliance, led by Beijing and Moscow to counter Washington, held its annual summit Oct. 22-24, hosted by Russian President Vladimir Putin. Behind its veneer of unanimity, the conference highlighted the divergent interests within the bloc, tensions over Moscow’s…
FORT WORTH, Texas — Marthen Goo, a member of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua, met Socialist Workers Party members George Chalmers and myself in Enid, Oklahoma, Oct. 20. Goo recently moved there and was encouraged by other members…
CINCINNATI — Dennis Richter, Socialist Workers Party candidate for vice president, brought the party’s working-class program to rail workers at the CSX Queensgate yard here Oct. 28. Jennifer Noell was among those who stopped to talk. “I’ve seen your campaign…
Rachele Fruit, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. president, joined the SWP in Philadelphia in 1970, where she was active in the Student Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam. As a high school student she participated in civil…
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Carlos Harris walked out of Santa Clara County Jail Oct. 22, after having spent 20 years in California state prisons for a crime he did not commit. “I can’t believe that I’m out!” Harris, 53, exulted…
While Joseph Biden administration officials and boosters of Kamala Harris’ campaign insist the battle against inflation has been won, working people know from real life experience it just isn’t true. High prices on food, energy, housing, health care and just…
ARLINGTON, Va. — Hotel workers, members of UNITE HERE Local 25, rallied and marched to the four Hilton hotels here Oct. 17. They beat buckets and waved hand clappers and signs demanding “More in 24!” Their message to management: We…
November 15, 1999 NEW YORK — The crash of Egypt Air’s Flight 990 from New York to Cairo, which killed all 217 passengers and crew members, has highlighted once again the disregard of the airline bosses and aerospace manufacturers to…
CHARLEROI, Pa. — Hanna Rudovsky, left, a member of United Steelworkers Local 53G, spoke with Socialist Workers Party presidential candidate Rachele Fruit, third from left, during the shift change at Anchor Hocking’s Pyrex plant Oct. 29. Anchor Hocking, which recently…
