Bakery workers in California make gains in 113-day strike

Vol. 86/No. 10 - March 14, 2022

LOS ANGELES — “Management and the corporate office believed we would break once we didn’t have a paycheck or health insurance. We didn’t,” strike leader Miguel Perez told the Militant at the victorious conclusion of 113-day walkout at the Rich’s…


Donaire strikers in LA fight for respect, decent pay

Vol. 86/No. 2 - January 17, 2022
Donaire strikers in LA fight for respect, decent pay

SANTA FE SPRINGS, Calif. — “Morale is good, nobody has walked in,” strike leader Miguel Perez told the Militant  Jan. 3, “even though the company canceled our insurance at the end of December.” The strike by 175 Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco…


SWP speaks for working class in California governor election

Vol. 85/No. 36 - October 4, 2021
Dennis Richter, Socialist Workers Party candidate for California governor, talked with Eustolia Guerrero at border crosswalk between San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico, Sept. 11. Response to SWP campaign “shows how hungry workers are to debate a road forward,” Richter said.

LOS ANGELES — “We urged workers and farmers to ignore the first question on the ballot — whether Gov. Gavin Newsom is recalled or not, but to cast a vote for the Socialist Workers Party on the second ballot question,”…


Longshore union in LA: ‘End US embargo of Cuba!’

Vol. 85/No. 35 - September 27, 2021

LOS ANGELES — Floyd Bryan, president of the Southern California District Council of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, reads the resolution passed by the union at its June convention demanding an end to the U.S. government’s embargo against Cuba.…


SWP files for ballot in race for governor of California

Vol. 85/No. 28 - July 19, 2021
Dennis Richter, Socialist Workers Party candidate for California governor, talks to Stella Useda while campaigning at Food4Less parking lot in Los Angeles July 5. Useda signed SWP petition.

Los Angeles — “Dennis Richter is for the workers,” said Latrice Mitchell. “I told my co-workers I’d rather vote for him than anybody else,” when asking them to sign the petition to put Richter, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for…


LA, NY protests hit deadly raids by Philippine gov’t

Vol. 85/No. 12 - March 29, 2021

LOS ANGELES — Sixty people participated in a spirited demonstration outside the Philippines Consulate here March 13, protesting the government’s cold-blooded killings of nine political and labor activists six days earlier. Actions took place elsewhere, including 50 people demonstrating at…


SWP protests attacks on LA Buddhist temple, Asians

Vol. 85/No. 11 - March 22, 2021

LOS ANGELES — One of a series of attacks across the country targeting Asians took place in Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo Feb. 25, where the Higashi Honganji Buddhist Temple was broken into and desecrated. An unknown attacker climbed the temple’s…


‘Prosecute cops who killed Andres Guardado’

Vol. 84/No. 26 - July 6, 2020
‘Prosecute cops who killed Andres Guardado’

GARDENA, Calif. — “I got here at 6 p.m., just after he was shot. They didn’t move his body out until nine or 10 hours later. They wouldn’t let the family see him. The cops took all the cameras, cleaned…


Bob Redrup, communist fighter for seven decades

Vol. 83/ No. 32 - September 2, 2019

LOS ANGELES — Bob Redrup, a seven-decade member of the Socialist Workers Party, died on Aug. 15 after a short illness. Redrup was 92. Born in New Jersey in 1927 to a working-class family, Redrup joined the Merchant Marine in…


Celebrate Nan Bailey’s five decades building SWP

Vol. 83/No. 1 - January 7, 2019

LOS ANGELES — Nan Bailey, 66, a leader and cadre of the Socialist Workers Party for 50 years, died here Dec. 12 after a 15-year battle with chronic lung disease. A meeting to celebrate her contributions to building the SWP…