SWP fights for NJ ballot: 650 signatures in 4 days!

Vol. 89/No. 15 - April 21, 2025
“Workers appreciate Militant’s  defense of immigrants,” Joanne Kuniansky, SWP candidate for governor of New Jersey, told forum April 5. Campaigners got 23 subscriptions over four days.

UNION CITY, N.J. — In the opening four days of the fight to get the Socialist Workers Party on the ballot in New Jersey, 650 signatures were gathered, as well as 23 subscriptions to the Militant and 24 books by…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 89/No. 15 - April 21, 2025

April 17, 2000 NEW YORK — The first of a series of public forums organized by the AFL-CIO on immigrant rights took place here April 1. A feature of the event was reports by immigrant workers involved in battles for…




1,000 in Sackets Harbor protest against ICE raid

Vol. 89/No. 15 - April 21, 2025

Nearly 1,000 people from Sackets Harbor, a small town of 1,300 in northwest New York state, and the surrounding area marched and protested April 5 against the arrest by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents of a family, a mother and…


Quebec gov’t mounts new attack on religious freedom

Vol. 89/No. 15 - April 21, 2025
Protest against Law 21 in Montreal, 2019. Placard reads, “Muslims, Jews, atheists and Christians are all citizens.” New Bill 94 expands earlier restrictions on wearing religious symbols at work for all school workers, violating freedoms under federal and Quebec human rights charters.

MONTREAL — A new Quebec government draft “secularization” law imposing an even more far-reaching and divisive dress code on teachers and other school workers “amounts to an attack on the fundamental rights of workers” and “reinforces discriminatory dress codes for…


Omari Musa: 57 years building the Socialist Workers Party

Vol. 89/No. 15 - April 21, 2025
Omari Musa, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Congress in Florida, explains SWP program in 2008. He joined the party in 1969 and stood as an SWP candidate 19 times.

WASHINGTON — A meeting organized by the branch of the Socialist Workers Party here was held March 22 to celebrate the life of Omari Musa, a veteran cadre of some 57 years building the communist movement in the U.S. and…


Striking Teamsters rally at San Francisco airport

Vol. 89/No. 15 - April 21, 2025
Striking Teamsters rally at San Francisco airport

SAN FRANCISCO — In their second week on strike, drivers for Flying Food Group, a catering company at the San Francisco International Airport, rallied at the airport April 7. “We’re united, we’re solid,” Norber Naguit, a driver with nine years…



London students protest Jew-hatred

Vol. 89/No. 15 - April 21, 2025

LONDON — “We will win!” some 200 supporters of an Israeli victory in its war against Hamas chanted at a spirited rally here April 2. The chant was led by the speaker, Yoseph Haddad, an Israeli Arab, who joined the…