Calif. nurses: ‘We’re out here striking for our patients’

Vol. 88/No. 16 - April 22, 2024
Striking nurses picket at Santa Clara County hospital in Gilroy, California, April 3. They are protesting bosses’ failure to take steps to eliminate understaffing that impacts care for patients.

GILROY, Calif. — Nurses carried out a spirited four-day strike at Santa Clara County hospitals April 2-5, with loud picket lines outside two hospitals in San Jose and one here. When supporters of the Socialist Workers Party campaign of Rachele…


Calif. nurses protest understaffing

Vol. 88/No. 15 - April 15, 2024

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Hundreds of nurses and supporters picketed outside the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center here April 2, the first day of a three-day strike by over 3,000 members of the Registered Nurses Professional Association at three county…


Join fight against Jew-hatred! SWP: Working-class alternative to Biden-Trump

SWP presidential campaign launched at Oakland meeting
Vol. 88/No. 11 - March 18, 2024
Socialist Workers Party presidential candidate Rachele Fruit presents party’s program. Left, Laura Garza, SWP candidate for Senate, Margaret Trowe, SWP candidate for vice president.

OAKLAND, Calif. — The launching of the 2024 Socialist Workers Party campaign in California was greeted with enthusiasm at a packed hall here when Rachele Fruit, the party’s candidate for president, and vice presidential candidate Margaret Trowe spoke March 2.…


Mass march in San Francisco protests rise of anti-Semitism

Vol. 88/No. 11 - March 18, 2024
March 3 demonstration in San Francisco protesting rise in acts of Jew-hatred in the Bay Area

SAN FRANCISCO — Braving intermittent downpours, thousands turned out March 3 for the “Unity Against Antisemitism” march and rally in San Francisco. It was a strong, confident answer to the surge of Jew-hating actions in California in recent weeks. The…


Join, build March 3 San Francisco march against Jew-hatred!

Vol. 88/No. 10 - March 11, 2024

OAKLAND, Calif — The Socialist Workers Party and its candidates in the 2024 elections are urging the largest possible turnout for the March 3 protest against antisemitism in San Francisco, starting at 1:30 p.m. at Embarcadero Plaza. Since Oct. 7,…


Oakland forum protests attacks on actions against Jew-hatred

Vol. 88/No. 7 - February 19, 2024
“We’re organizing to bring a stop to violence against Jews,” said Margaret Trowe, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Congress, at Militant Labor Forum in Oakland, California, Jan. 28. Faith Meltzer, left, was assaulted by pro-Hamas thugs Jan. 6 in El Cerrito.

OAKLAND, Calif. — The Jan. 28 Militant Labor Forum here featured a speakout against recent attacks on protesters in El Cerrito who defend the right of Israel to exist as a refuge for Jews and a discussion on how to…



Health care workers win gains in fight at Kaiser

Vol. 87/No. 46 - December 11, 2023
Kaiser health care workers rally at Los Angeles Medical Center Oct. 6 in fight for new contract. After monthslong fight, 85,000 unionists ratified new pact with 21% pay raise over four years.

OAKLAND, Calif. — Over 85,000 health care workers at Kaiser Permanente have voted to ratify a contract that will raise wages for all workers by 21% over four years. The contract covers nursing assistants, pharmacy and X-ray technicians, respiratory therapists,…


SWP campaigns with ‘Militant,’ books, working class program

Vol. 87/No. 37 - October 9, 2023
Laura Garza, right, SWP candidate for U.S. Senate in California, in San Leandro Sept. 24. She urged workers who signed for party’s right to be on ballot to support striking UAW members.

OAKLAND, Calif. — “When the working class starts to stand up, as they’re doing today, everything changes. More workers start to think, what can I do?” Laura Garza, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Senate from California, said at a…


Solidarity with workers in flood-hit California town

Vol. 87/No. 18 - May 8, 2023

PAJARO, Calif. — There has been an outpouring of solidarity for workers whose homes were flooded here when a levee broke March 11. Some 200 volunteers turned out April 15 to help flood victims clean up mud, rip out water…