SWP campaign draws lessons from past class struggle battles

Vol. 85/No. 33 - September 6, 2021
Dennis Richter, right, SWP candidate for governor of California, talks to Noble Kaus at San Leandro Walmart store Aug. 22. Richter urged Kaus, who works at a union-organized chocolate factory, to join in bringing solidarity to workers facing lockouts and strikes today.

“This is a book about the dictatorship of capital and the road to the dictatorship of the proletariat,” Jacquie Henderson read to retired health care worker Rose Skarski from a copy of Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to…


US rulers’ war in Afghanistan was disaster for working people

Vol. 85/No. 33 - September 6, 2021

Since Joseph Biden ordered U.S. troops out of Afghanistan, an admission the U.S. rulers’ 20-year war there was a failure, Taliban forces swept across the country taking Kabul, the capital, Aug. 15. Some 5,800 U.S. troops, alongside 1,000 British soldiers…


SWP campaign: ‘Workers need to fight to take political power’

Vol. 85/No. 32 - August 30, 2021
“I lost everything I valued in the Camp Fire,” Richard Reed told Jeff Powers, left, and Joel Britton, right, Socialist Workers Party candidate for State Assembly, in Paradise, California, Aug. 7. SWP campaigners are returning to visit with workers in area devastated by Dixie Fire.

“Working people today are keenly interested in how we can organize to fight to change the disastrous conditions we face worldwide — from Afghanistan, to Haiti, to the Middle East and here in mines, mills and other workplaces across the…


US rulers end 20-year-long imperialist war in Afghanistan

Vol. 85/No. 32 - August 30, 2021
Afghan national flag raised again in main square protest in Jalalabad Aug. 18 after its removal by Taliban. Three people were reported killed, 12 wounded as Taliban soldiers fired on crowd.

The U.S. rulers’ 20-year war and occupation of Afghanistan, and the carnage it inflicted on working people at home and abroad, ended with further devastation as the Taliban retook the capital, Kabul, Aug. 15. In the wake of President Joseph…


On anniversary of port explosion, workers protest crisis in Lebanon

Vol. 85/No. 31 - August 23, 2021

Tens of thousands of protesters rallied against the Lebanese government in central Beirut Aug. 4 on the first anniversary of a huge explosion that killed over 200 people, injured 7,000 and forced a quarter of a million from their homes.…


‘Workers need to build a party to lead fight for political power’

Vol. 85/No. 31 - August 23, 2021
Dennis Richter, right, SWP candidate for governor of California, talks with high school student Marcus Connelly at L.A. Walmart Aug. 5. Connelly said U.S. government should have made sure everyone could get vaccinated and jabs were given “to poor countries around the world.”

Socialist Workers Party candidates and campaign supporters are taking the party’s working-class politics far and wide, exchanging views and experiences with working people on their doorsteps, at strike picket lines and social protests. Workers and farmers are seeking ways we…


Join Socialist Workers Party campaigning!

Vol. 85/No. 30 - August 16, 2021
Socialist Workers Party campaigner Leroy Watson, right, discusses historic advances in fight against racism, including on strike picket lines, with Ben Allen, in Bellwood, Chicago, Aug. 1.

“SWP campaigners come out of the July 22-24 Socialist Workers Party International Conference better prepared to join in the struggles of working people and point the road forward to building a party that will lead millions to overturn capitalist rule…


Water, power cuts fuel protests against Iran gov’t, wars abroad

Vol. 85/No. 30 - August 16, 2021
Protests erupted across Iran, including in mainly Arab Khuzestan province, above, then to Tehran by July 25, sparked by water, power outages, regime military interventions in region.

Protests against Iran’s bourgeois-clerical regime spread from Khuzestan province, home to the country’s Arab minority, to cities and towns elsewhere in mid-July. Triggered by severe water shortages and power outages that hit hard on working people, demonstrators protested the Iranian…


Cuba’s working people rose up, carried out a socialist revolution

Vol. 85/No. 29 - July 26, 2021

“What the imperialists cannot forgive,” Fidel Castro told the Cuban people at a rally in Havana April 16, 1961, on the eve of Washington’s attempted Bay of Pigs invasion, was “that we have made a socialist revolution right under their…


Help take SWP campaign out to working people far and wide

Vol. 85/No. 29 - July 26, 2021
SWP campaigners, from left, Dave Perry, Ned Measel and Samir Hazboun talk politics with Ralph Robinson Jr., a Kroger store worker and member of UFCW union, in Cincinnati July 10.

“The Socialist Workers Party’s International Active Workers Conference July 22-24 will be a springboard for campaigns led by the 20 candidates the party has endorsed in the 2021 elections,” John Studer, SWP national campaign director, told the Militant. “We will…