President Joseph Biden’s State of the Union speech March 1 kicked off an effort to use Moscow’s bloody invasion of Ukraine to justify strengthening the U.S. imperialist war machine. “We, the United States of America, stand with the Ukrainian people,”…
After three years probing former President Donald Trump’s alleged financial skullduggery, two leading Manhattan prosecutors, Carey Dunne and Mark Pomerantz, quit Feb. 23, convinced there would be no prosecution of Trump. The grand jury they were running, empaneled as part…
The ousting of three liberal members of the San Francisco school board in a recall election Feb. 15 is one more reflection of the political crisis wracking the capitalist rulers. After years of watching board members attempting to foist their…
RIDGEFIELD, N.J. — “Once you’re carrying millions of dollars of their equipment, company owners treat you like they own you,” oversize load trucker Michael Pitcher told Socialist Workers Party members at the Vincent Lombardi truck stop here Feb. 13. SWP…
How to win protection from the disastrous effects of the deep-rooted social crisis of capitalism is a question confronting more working people and our families today. It’s becoming harder and harder to start a family, or hold one together. Beginning…
Exacerbating the political crisis gripping the U.S. rulers today is their broad belief that governments need to take extraordinary measures to slash the use of fossil fuels or the world will face a “climate catastrophe.” This comes on top of…
Over the last few decades both Democratic and Republican administrations have vastly expanded the number of federal crimes on the books, handing the capitalist rulers powerful tools to use against militant workers, and increasingly against each other. The number of…
The ruling capitalist families face a deepening political crisis today. Neither of the parties they’ve relied on for decades can provide them with political stability. Both Democrats and Republicans are locked in relentless battles for turf and control, and both…
The U.S. capitalist rulers face a political crisis today. Neither of their historical political parties, the Democrats and Republicans, are capable of ruling with stability, and both are wracked by internal divisions that could lead to splits. This forces the…
A vigil at Miami International Airport, Dec. 23, above, protests the U.S. rulers’ six-decade-long embargo against Cuba. Similar actions were held the same day in Albany and New York, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, and Seattle. Actions were also held in Havana…
