Rachele Fruit, SWP candidate for U.S. president, met Aug. 19 in Manchester, England, with Festus Igho, center, and Israel Akanji, rail gateline workers who are active in the fight to win recognition for the Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers union on the job.
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Rachele Fruit • Dennis Richter

‘Working people need our own party, a party of labor’

Fruit in UK: ‘Workers need to take political power’  MANCHESTER, England — “Workers need to rely on ourselves if we’re to fundamentally change the conditions we face,” Rachele Fruit, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. president, told participants at…


Richter speaks in Australia, backs construction workers

SYDNEY — The Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. vice president, Dennis Richter, campaigned here for several days in mid-August along with Robert Aiken, the Communist League candidate for mayor of Liverpool. CL campaigners took advantage of building for the…


Canadian rail workers walk out over jobs, wages, safety

Teamster rail workers at Canadian National join picket of CSN hotel workers at the Bonaventure in Montreal Aug. 22. Rail workers at CN and Canadian Pacific Kansas City have walked out in nationwide fight for safety.

MONTREAL — Almost 10,000 rail engineers, conductors and dispatchers, members of the Teamsters union, walked off the job at 12:01 a.m. Aug. 22 after Canadian National and Canadian Pacific Kansas City railroads, Canada’s two cross-country rail lines, refused to sign…



Working people in Russia speak out against Putin, war on Ukraine

Russian soldiers surrender in Kursk, Russia. Opposition to Putin’s war on Ukraine is growing.

Ukrainian forces are still advancing more than two weeks after entering Russia’s western Kursk region Aug. 6. Kyiv is seeking ways to push back against Russian President Vladimir Putin’s efforts to use Moscow’s preponderant numbers and resources to advance his…



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Forging a proletarian party in the class struggle today

Socialist Workers Party uses Marxist program and party’s experiences to set course
American Airlines flight attendants protest at Dallas-Fort Worth airport Sept. 5, 2023. There has been a renewal of fights and solidarity activity by workers, unionists in U.S.

“Every class struggle is a political struggle.” With that statement Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, opened his report to an International Socialist Educational Conference in Oberlin, Ohio. “That’s a reality more and more workers in the…









Cuba and Chernobyl

This Cuban documentary produced in 2006 tells the story of the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe in Ukraine and Cuba’s exemplary internationalist medical program that treated more than 25,000 victims.