NY Proposition 1 is threat to rights, ploy to boost Democrats

Vol. 88/No. 41 - November 4, 2024
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and Lt. Gov. Antonio Delgado at primary election night party, June 28, 2022, in New York. Democratic-backed Proposition 1, falsely posed as a road to expand political rights, is in reality the opposite, a “woke” move to strengthen capitalist politics.

NEW YORK — Proposition 1, often referred to by its Democratic Party boosters as the “Equal Rights Amendment” or the “Equal Protection of the Law Amendment,” will be on the ballot in New York Nov. 5. The measure is being…


Workers step up solidarity in face of the US embargo

Vol. 88/No. 41 - November 4, 2024
Isbel González charges neighbors’ cellphones at Casa Vera, a private student residence that made its power generator available to community during blackout. Inset, online post by Dania Murciano, resident of Holguín, eastern Cuba, with photo of devices being charged. Her post says: “You can still come here to charge. This is the moment to give a hand to each other.”

HAVANA — Countless expressions of working-class solidarity have spread across Cuba, accompanying government efforts to confront the impact of two recent major emergencies — a three-day collapse of the national electrical grid and the damage caused by Hurricane Oscar in…


‘Defend Israel as a refuge from Jew-hatred, pogroms’

Vol. 88/No. 41 - November 4, 2024
Rachele Fruit, left, SWP candidate for president, is interviewed by press at Holocaust Memorial Oct. 10, 2023, in Miami, while at rally of 3,000 after murderous Hamas pogrom.

Iran rulers’ threats to Israel and Jews imperil all working people ATLANTA — “Oct. 7 was a declaration of war against the existence of Israel, a refuge for 7 million Jews and home to 2 million Palestinians and Arabs,” Rachele…


Washington economic war fuels the blackouts in Cuba

Vol. 88/No. 41 - November 4, 2024

Millions of people across Cuba were without electricity over several days as the island was hit by a fourth nationwide blackout Oct. 20. The Cuban power grid repeatedly collapsed, choking the economy and making daily life a challenge. This energy…


Fruit: ‘Working-class solidarity in North Carolina an example’

Vol. 88/No. 41 - November 4, 2024
Rachele Fruit, left, SWP candidate for president, speaks with Polly Augenstein Oct. 18. Coming from Pittsburgh, she is staffing free shower, laundry facilities in Swannanoa, North Carolina.

ASHEVILLE, N.C. — “We started with no supplies, but within a few days we had to open a warehouse to hold all the contributions that were pouring in for victims of the hurricane,” Isabel Beteta told Rachele Fruit, the Socialist…


Boeing strikers discuss, vote on a tentative new contract

Vol. 88/No. 41 - November 4, 2024

RENTON, Wash. — The 33,000 Machinists at Boeing voted Oct. 23 on a third contract offer from Boeing. It includes a 35% pay hike over four years, a $7,000 ratification bonus and an increase in the company’s contribution to the…


End US rulers’ economic, trade and political war against Cuba!

Vol. 88/No. 41 - November 4, 2024
Fidel Castro addresses million-strong rally in February 1962 as workers and farmers made socialist revolution in Cuba. “Second Declaration of Havana” adopted there was call to action to working people across Americas, world to join in fight against U.S. imperialism.

For more than six decades, the U.S. capitalist rulers have tried by every means possible — from organizing the Bay of Pigs invasion to nuclear confrontation to terrorist bombings to an over 60-year-long, ever-tightening economic embargo — to try to…


SWP campaigners find real interest in ‘Militant,’ party

Vol. 88/No. 41 - November 4, 2024

“When the Key Bridge collapsed, truckers were promised funds by the government. But that doesn’t mean we saw any money,” Ernest Beard, a trucker and a veteran, told James Harris, Socialist Workers Party candidate for D.C. delegate to the U.S.…


Why fight to defend constitutional freedoms is key for working class

Vol. 88/No. 41 - November 4, 2024

Safeguarding freedom of speech, assembly and worship, the right to bear arms, and other constitutional protections are at the center of politics and the class struggle, and will remain so regardless of which party controls the White House after the…


Dominican gov’t deports 1,000s of Haitians as crisis in Haiti deepens

Vol. 88/No. 41 - November 4, 2024

The capitalist rulers of the Dominican Republic stepped up their crackdown on Haitian immigrants, announcing Oct. 2 they would deport 10,000 every week. Dominican President Luis Abinader demagogically claims this will defend the interests of “the Dominican people,” who, he…