SWP campaign in Oakland joins protests against attacks on Israel

Vol. 88/No. 3 - January 22, 2024
Margaret Trowe, SWP candidate for U.S. Congress in California’s District 12, speaks against San Leandro City Council motion for an Israeli cease-fire, which would only strengthen Hamas.

SAN LEANDRO, Calif. — The Socialist Workers Party campaign joined other supporters of Israel’s right to exist as a refuge for Jews to speak out against Jew-hatred at City Council debates here and in Alameda Jan. 2. This author is…


Unionists discuss fight against anti-Semitism

Vol. 88/No. 1 - January 1, 2024
Guardia de Defensa Sindical, iniciada por el Local 544 de Teamsters en Minneapolis en 1938, defendió las líneas de piquetes y combatió antisemitismo expulsando a organización fascista.

SAN LEANDRO, Calif. — The Oct. 7 massacre of more than 1,200 men, women and children in Israel by death squads organized by Hamas, the Tehran-backed Islamist terror outfit that rules Gaza, was a turning point in the class struggle. …


SWP meeting in California maps out bold 2024 campaign

Vol. 87/No. 27 - July 24, 2023
Laura Garza, rail worker and SWP candidate for U.S. Senate from California, joins hotel workers in UNITE HERE Local 11 on strike picket line July 2 at InterContinental Hotel in Los Angeles.

LOS ANGELES — “Laura Garza is not just a Socialist Workers Party candidate in California. This is a campaign for the working class in the United States,” Alyson Kennedy, SWP candidate for mayor of Fort Worth, Texas, last May, told…


How to advance women’s rights is debated at NOW conference

Vol. 86/No. 30 - August 15, 2022
National Organization for Women conference took place July 22-24, as deepening capitalist crisis wreaks havoc on working people, our families and our unions. Above, Heather Hernandez after being forced to quit her job last year as schools closed during the pandemic.

CHICAGO — Some 250 women and men gathered for the National Organization for Women conference here July 22-24 to discuss how to advance the fight for women’s equality at a time when soaring prices and a deepening capitalist crisis are…


Akron protests: ‘Charge cops who killed Jayland Walker’

Vol. 86/No. 28 - August 1, 2022

AKRON, Ohio — Hundreds came to the Civic Theatre here July 13 to pay their respects to Jayland Walker. A DoorDash driver with no criminal record, Walker, 25, died June 27 when eight police officers fired dozens of shots at…


No worker has to die! Young bakery worker killed on the job

Vol. 86/No. 18 - May 9, 2022
Automatic Rolls bakery, in Clayton, North Carolina, where Bibiana Arellano Delabra, 22, inset, was killed April 16 working on a large mixing machine. Fight for union control of line speeds, crew sizes, schedule, training is needed to counter deadly effects of capitalists’ drive for profits.

CINCINNATI — A young woman’s life was cut short when she was killed on the job April 16. Bibiana Arellano Delabra, 22, was crushed to death while operating a large industrial mixing machine at nonunion Automatic Rolls of North Carolina…


Alabama rally backs miners strike against Warrior Met

Vol. 86/No. 15 - April 18, 2022
Alabama rally backs miners strike against Warrior Met

MCCALLA, Alabama — United Mine Workers of America members who’ve been on strike for a year against Warrior Met Coal were joined in a solidarity rally here April 6 by hundreds of unionists from across the South and Midwest. Over…


Importance of labor unions shown during deadly Midwest tornadoes

Vol. 86/No. 1 - January 3, 2022
2019 strike at GM plant in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Union-organized plant had basement tornado shelter, no lives were lost, unlike at nonunion Amazon warehouse, candle factory.

Natural disasters under capitalist rule inevitably become a social catastrophe for workers and farmers, as the effects are multiplied by the workings of the dog-eat-dog for-profit system. This exposes the contempt the wealthy rulers have for the safety, life and…


Social disaster after tornadoes result of bosses drive for profits

Vol. 85/No. 48 - December 27, 2021

Powerful tornadoes swept across six states Dec. 10, resulting in a death toll climbing to over 100 people, including factory workers left to fend for themselves on the job in Kentucky and Illinois. While the storms were a mighty reflection…


Macron imposes another ‘French values’ attack on working people

Vol. 85/No. 30 - August 16, 2021

French President Emmanuel Macron is using deadly assaults by Islamists to push through legislation restricting free speech and freedom of worship. The laws make what he calls “separatism” a criminal offense in the name of imposing “French values.” The Law…