Myanmar quake unleashes disaster as junta sends in the army, not aid

Vol. 89/No. 15 - April 21, 2025
Volunteers search for survivors in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar, March 28. Thousands tried to save people using only their hands after gov’t officials refused to provide tools or equipment.

A huge earthquake in Myanmar March 28, which killed over 3,000 people and injured thousands more, is fueling growing anger among working people against the military junta there. The government sent troops to the hardest-hit areas, but they were tasked…


Free trade or protection, workers go to the wall

Vol. 89/No. 15 - April 21, 2025

As capitalism was displacing feudal rule, Karl Marx, the founder of the communist movement, delivered a “Speech on the Question of Free Trade” in Brussels in 1848. It’s invaluable for understanding why working people need to break from the capitalist…


Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers Power

Vol. 89/No. 15 - April 21, 2025

The following concluding section of the introduction to Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers Power by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, was written Oct. 4, 2009. It was read by Mary-Alice Waters as…


Miners join ongoing protests against gov’t in Tbilisi

Vol. 89/No. 15 - April 21, 2025
Miners join ongoing protests against gov’t in Tbilisi

Tens of thousands rallied in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, March 31, the anniversary of the 1991 referendum for independence from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics that passed by 99%. That vote capped growing protests and a brutal attack…


Jews led resistance against Nazi murderers in Auschwitz

Vol. 89/No. 15 - April 21, 2025
Statue in Israel commemorates the four women who helped lead resistance to Nazi Holocaust in Auschwitz death camp.

In the second imperialist world war the German Nazi government of Adolf Hitler attempted to carry through the “Final Solution,” the slaughter of the world’s Jews. With the help of the democratic imperialist leaders in Washington, London and others, who…


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…




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…


‘Workers need to take political power into our own hands’

Vol. 89/No. 14 - April 14, 2025
Laura Garza, SWP candidate for mayor of Los Angeles, and Eric Simpson, SWP candidate for mayor of Oakland, California, join march in defense of immigrants rights in Delano March 31.

SWP candidates get hearing for working-class program DELANO, Calif.— Norton Sandler, Socialist Workers Party candidate for California governor, launched his campaign as he joined several thousand farmworkers and other unionists fighting to defend the rights of immigrants at the “With…