Statement by Joanne Kuniansky for the Socialist Workers Party to U.N. Special Committee hearing on the decolonization of Puerto Rico, June 16, 2025. Distinguished chairperson and committee members: My name is Joanne Kuniansky. I am speaking on behalf of the…
A political report by Socialist Workers Party National Secretary Jack Barnes, above at podium, set the framework for three days of plenary sessions, classes and discussions at the SWP International Conference in Oberlin, Ohio, June 12-14. Barnes addressed the SWP’s…
Minutes after hearing the White House had sent B-2 aircraft to bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities June 21, Kevin Dwire, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of Minneapolis, told a Militant Labor Forum there that the SWP backs Israel’s fight to…
President Donald Trump issued an executive order that took effect June 9 banning residents of 12 countries from entering the United States and placing harsh visa restrictions on those from another seven, including Cuba, along with Venezuela, Burundi, Laos, Sierra…
MONTREAL — DHL Express Canada, an international package delivery company based in Germany, locked out its 2,100 workers across Canada June 8. Workers voted down the bosses’ contract offer by 97% in May. The central issues are winning wage increases…
After beating back a three-month, U.S. government-led effort to bury him in jail in El Salvador, Kilmar Abrego Garcia was returned to the U.S. June 6. He was immediately thrown in jail in Nashville, Tennessee, held without bond, and allowed…
In the largest work stoppage since the 1979 revolution that overthrew the U.S.-backed dictatorship of the shah and ensuing bourgeois-clerical-led counterrevolution, thousands of truck drivers in Iran held an 11-day strike starting May 22 and ending June 2 — four…
LIVERMORE, Calif. — U.S. immigration forces deported Miguel Lopez, a welder and mechanic at the Wente Vineyards winery here, to Mexico June 7, just hours before a judge issued a temporary restraining order barring his expulsion from the U.S. Lopez,…
Working people, especially those over or approaching 65, find themselves facing exorbitant prices for groceries, utilities, rent, health care and more. On June 18, the federal government announced Social Security payments and Medicare benefits will both be slashed quicker than…
Israel’s 12-days of targeted airstrikes in Iran — a defensive war to prevent a new holocaust — dealt big blows to the reactionary regime’s capacity to manufacture and launch nuclear weapons. For years the Iranian regime has planned for the…
