Socialist Workers Party campaign offers working-class road forward

Vol. 86/No. 7 - February 21, 2022

OAKLAND, Calif. — More than 300 people, way over the 65 required, have signed the petition to put Eleanor García, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Senate, on the California ballot. In addition, over $5,000 has been raised to pay…


Socialist Workers Party conference launches 2022 California campaign

Vol. 86/No. 5 - February 7, 2022
Ellie García (right), Socialist Workers Party 2022 candidate for U.S. Senate in California, meets copper miner Mike Sepulveda to discuss Steelworkers strike against Asarco in 2019.

LOS ANGELES — Socialist Workers Party members in California met in a statewide convention here Jan. 23 and voted to run Eleanor García, a retired aerospace worker and party leader with long experience in working-class struggles, for U.S. Senate and…


California hospital engineers end strike

Vol. 86/No. 2 - January 17, 2022

OAKLAND, Calif. — After 90 days on the picket line, with Kaiser management still refusing to budge on its insulting concession demands, the 700 stationary engineers on strike at 24 Northern California hospitals ended their strike Dec. 18. Officials of…


Hospital workers walk out to support striking engineers

Vol. 85/No. 46 - December 13, 2021
California Nurses Association members walked out for one day Nov. 19, supporting striking engineers at 24 Kaiser hospitals in Northern California. Above, picket line in San Leandro.

OAKLAND, Calif. — The 700 members of IUOE Stationary Engineers Local 39, who are on strike at 24 Northern California Kaiser hospitals, got a boost Nov. 18 when members of other hospital unions participated in a one-day strike in support…


Stationary engineers strike 24 Kaiser hospitals in California

Vol. 85/No. 40 - November 1, 2021
Striking members of International Union of Operating Engineers Local 39 march on Kaiser headquarters in Oakland, Sept. 30, in fight for higher wages, new contract at 24 hospitals.

OAKLAND, Calif. — Some 700 members of Local 39 of the International Union of Operating Engineers continue to maintain picket lines around the clock at 24 Kaiser hospitals in Northern California. The strikers are demanding respect and a contract that…


Striking stationary engineers protest Kaiser hospital bosses

Vol. 85/No. 38 - October 18, 2021

OAKLAND, Calif. — Chants of “What do we want? Contract!” echoed in the downtown here Sept. 30, as hundreds of stationary engineers on strike against Kaiser Permanente hospitals marched to the company’s headquarters. They came from Oakland, San Francisco, San…


Kaiser Operating Engineers strike 24 hospitals in California

Vol. 85/No. 37 - October 11, 2021
Sept. 22 picket at Kaiser hospital in Oakland, California, one of 24 where operating engineers are on strike. This fight “is bringing our crew together,” said striker Michael Salas.

SAN LEANDRO, Calif. — The 700 members of International Union of Operating Engineers Local 39 are on strike at 24 Kaiser hospitals across Northern California. “We have been on the front-lines in these hospitals throughout the pandemic,” striker Jose Banta…


‘Workers need to organize our own party, a labor party,’

Vol. 85/No. 34 - September 20, 2021
Working people face “a crisis of a social system that defends the interests and profits of the wealthy class,” Sam Manuel, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Atlanta City Council president, said during Sept. 1 candidates’ debate at Clark Atlanta University.

PLACERVILLE, Calif. — Dennis Richter, Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor of California, and SWP campaigners visited towns in the north of the state hit by wildfires Aug. 23. Since it began in July, the Dixie Fire has laid waste…


SWP running for governor in California special election

Vol. 85/No. 21 - May 31, 2021
Dennis Richter, right, Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor of California, and campaign supporter Alyson Kennedy talk to Long Beach port worker Javier Marquez May 16. Marquez got Teamster Rebellion to learn how revolutionary-minded unionists fought in 1930s.

LOS ANGELES — The Socialist Workers Party in California announced May 15 that it will run Dennis Richter, a Walmart worker and party leader, for governor in a special election to decide who might replace Democratic Party governor Gavin Newsom…


SWP Oakland campaign helps expand reach of the ‘Militant’

Vol. 85/No. 19 - May 17, 2021
Rebecca Williamson, SWP candidate for Seattle City Council, talks with construction worker Luis Montes, right, while campaigning to put Joel Britton on the ballot in California’s 18th Assembly District April 28. Montes, who worked at Tesla, said bosses “treat us like we’re stupid.”

OAKLAND, Calif. — Some 230 people were happy to sign to put Socialist Workers Party candidate Joel Britton on the ballot during a three-day petitioning window for the Aug. 31 special election for State Assembly in the 18th District. Election…