Defense, extension of political rights key for the class struggle

Vol. 88/No. 3 - January 22, 2024

President Joseph Biden implausibly likened himself to George Washington Jan. 5, at the same time he pressed further attacks on constitutional freedoms won during the Revolutionary War and the class battles that followed it. Biden and his Democratic Party have…



SWP offers class-struggle road to end Jew-hatred, strengthen unions

Vol. 87/No. 44 - November 27, 2023
Port trucker Dilraj Singh told SWP congressional candidate Margaret Trowe he welcomed the party’s defense of Israel’s right to exist. After their discussion in San Leandro, California, Nov. 5, he got a year’s subscription to the Militant, two books, gave $50 to SWP Party-Building Fund.

Members of the Socialist Workers Party and Communist Leagues in Canada, Australia and the U.K. are discussing the stakes in joining fights against Jew-hatred. They’re talking to workers at their doorsteps, on union picket lines and at protests against Hamas’…




SWP tells truth about Hamas war on Jews, builds US labor struggles

Vol. 87/No. 39 - October 23, 2023
Lisa Potash, SWP candidate for U.S. Congress from Georgia, told Militant Labor Forum in Atlanta Oct. 8 that middle-class left falsely portrays Hamas as a national liberation organization. In fact it is “a reactionary Islamist puppet of Tehran” that rules Palestinians in Gaza by thuggery.

The Socialist Workers Party and Communist Leagues in Canada, Australia and the U.K. are campaigning to explain why Israel must be defended as a refuge for Jews and why the pogroms Hamas launched on Israeli citizens must be exposed and…


SWP campaigners get a hearing at union struggles, workers’ doors

Vol. 87/No. 38 - October 16, 2023
Seth Galinsky, left, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New York City Council, shows Militant to participants at the Brooklyn Book Festival Oct. 1. The table was always crowded as SWP supporters sold 28 Militant subscriptions and 81 books by party leaders, other revolutionaries.

“By joining union struggles and going door to door in working-class communities, Socialist Workers Party campaigners in Georgia have sold 21 Militant  subscriptions and 18 books by revolutionary leaders since the fall campaign began,” Susan LaMont, organizer of the SWP…


Washington seeks bloc with Vietnam in China conflict

Vol. 87/No. 36 - October 2, 2023

Drawn together by common interests in countering Beijing’s expansionist course, Nguyen Phu Trong, general secretary of Vietnam’s ruling Communist Party, met with President Joseph Biden in Hanoi Sept. 10. “The United States is a Pacific nation, and we’re not going…


Jury acquits Michigan defendants entrapped by FBI

Vol. 87/No. 36 - October 2, 2023

In an important victory for constitutional rights, a jury in Bellaire, Michigan, acquitted three men Sept. 15 who had been accused of conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020. It was the final court proceeding in a three-year…


SWP campaign wins hearing for party program, solidarity with UAW

Vol. 87/No. 36 - October 2, 2023
Socialist Workers Party member Betsy Farley, right, discusses significance of United Auto Workers strike with Local 12 members on the picket line in Toledo, Ohio, Sept. 18.

At plant gates, demonstrations, on workers’ doorsteps and strike picket lines, Socialist Workers Party candidates and supporters get a serious hearing on the party’s program and respect for their efforts to get out the truth about working-class struggles and build…