ALTADENA, Calif. — “Under capitalism, every time a disaster happens, the bosses and their politicians merely recreate the same conditions for it to happen again,” said Eric Simpson, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Oakland mayor and a union factory worker,…
Since Donald Trump took office as president again Jan. 20, he has moved to advance his “Make America Great Again” nationalist agenda and, at the same time, to promote his pledge that his plans will mean a pro-worker White House.…
Declining birth rates and life expectancy in the U.S., both symptoms of a deepening capitalist economic, political and moral crisis, have led to a sharp drop in population growth, one that will continue to deepen over coming decades. In fact…
The Socialist Workers Party and Communist League in Canada are launching 2025 election campaigns with candidates presenting a working-class program to fight against the effects on us of the unfolding political and economic crisis of the capitalist system. The candidates…
Join our fight to overturn the unconstitutional ban of Militant issue no. 42 by authorities at the Lower Buckeye Jail in Phoenix — the largest detention facility in Arizona. Letters have been arriving at the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office from…
LOS ANGELES — The heavy smell of smoke, darkened skies in the daytime and spreading ash have receded in many neighborhoods here, though the closer you are to the ongoing fires it is still dangerous to breathe the air. More…
Over a harrowing three days, Jan. 13-15, 246 starving miners and the bodies of 78 dead miners were brought to the surface from the 4,200-foot-deep abandoned Buffelsfontein gold mine near Stilfontein, South Africa, a small town 100 miles southwest of…
The ceasefire agreement in Gaza today is the product of the blows the Israeli military and people have dealt Hamas, Hezbollah and the reactionary bourgeois regime in Tehran over the last 15 months. Advances in defending Israel as a refuge…
“The Socialist Workers Party campaign speaks in the interests of working people, as we face unemployment, high prices, a deep social crisis and the threat of more wars,” Eric Simpson, the party’s candidate for mayor of Oakland, California, told supporters…
As the crisis of the U.S. rulers’ capitalist system deepens, they are stepping up efforts to place the burden on the backs of working people. One punishing expression of this is the growing shortage of housing working-class families, the young…
