‘Bosses’ attacks today flow from crisis of capitalism’

Vol. 89/No. 10 - March 17, 2025
Eric Simpson, SWP mayoral candidate in Oakland, at candidates debate Feb. 26. The working class is “only class that has no interest in exploitation and can open new future for humanity.”

OAKLAND, Calif. — Socialist Workers Party mayoral candidate Eric Simpson presented a line of march for the working class to take political power in his remarks at a candidates debate organized by Oaklandside, a widely read news website Feb. 26.…


‘We run to build a party for workers to take power’

Vol. 89/No. 10 - March 17, 2025
Joanne Kuniansky, right, now Socialist Workers Party candidate for New Jersey governor, talks with striking nurses, members of USW Local 4-200, at hospital in New Brunswick, Aug. 6, 2023.

“The world working people face today is marked by deepening capitalist crises, which drive sharpening conflicts between allies and rivals alike, more wars and the threat of nuclear conflagration. That’s why the Socialist Workers Party campaign starts from the world,”…


Protests across Russia oppose Moscow’s war against Ukraine

Vol. 89/No. 10 - March 17, 2025
In Siberian city of Perm, above, a group protests Moscow’s war in Ukraine. Inset, Lyudmila Vasilyeva, 83-year-old survivor of the World War II siege of Leningrad by German army and former candidate against Putin, stages a solo protest in St. Petersburg with placard saying, “Stop the war.”

The third anniversary of Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine was marked in a careful but significant way in cities across Russia. Despite public opposition to the war being forbidden by law, with many protesters hit with significant sentences and rough…


Wall Street: ‘Life’s good for the rich, that’s good for you’

Vol. 89/No. 10 - March 17, 2025

If your bank accounts run into eight figures, your housing costs are in the millions and you have oodles of investments in bitcoin, stocks, hedge funds and other speculative endeavors, then you’re one of the people the Wall Street Journal…


Israeli gov’t says Hamas must be dismantled, all hostages freed

Vol. 89/No. 10 - March 17, 2025
Armed Hamas thugs “protecting” aid truck in Rafah January 2024. Hamas steals much of the aid sent to Gaza, uses it to reassert its dictatorial rule, finance its plans to carry out new anti-Jewish pogroms. Israel insists Hamas must be destroyed and all hostages released.

With the first phase of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas over, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made it clear Israel will not accept any deal that leaves Hamas in power in Gaza or capable of carrying out future…




Mass protests in Greece demand justice in train collision

Vol. 89/No. 10 - March 17, 2025
Mass protests in Greece demand justice in train collision.

ATHENS, Greece — Hundreds of thousands of working people and youth filled the streets of central Athens Feb. 28, above, in an outpouring of outrage on the second anniversary of a train collision in Tembe in northern Greece. Fifty-seven people…