Help expand the reach of the SWP and the ‘Militant’

Vol. 86/No. 42 - November 14, 2022
Olivia Ortiz, left, shows Joanne Kuniansky, SWP candidate for Congress in New Jersey, a video of her working construction job. Ortiz appreciated Militant’s coverage of Iran and subscribed.

Days before Nov. 8 elections, the Socialist Workers Party and its candidates are making a final push to reach working people with the party’s program and activities. Gabrielle Prosser, SWP candidate for governor of Minnesota, spoke at a candidates’ forum…


Working conditions, firing by UPS lead Kentucky worker to suicide

Vol. 86/No. 42 - November 14, 2022

After being fired on Oct. 5, a pregnant UPS worker committed suicide in the company’s huge Worldport facility in Louisville, Kentucky, the world’s largest automated package sorting facility. Twenty thousand workers, many of whom are members of Teamsters Local 89,…



Vote Socialist Workers Party! Back rail workers, Iran protests

Vol. 86/No. 40 - October 31, 2022
Joel Britton, left, Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor of California, discusses politics with protester while campaigning at Iran solidarity rally of 2,000 in San Francisco Oct. 9.

In the final couple of weeks leading up to elections, candidates of the Socialist Workers Party are campaigning to get out news of key strikes and working-class battles worldwide and presenting the party’s program. And they are introducing working people…


Join ‘Militant’ to build, go to protests against Iran gov’t

Vol. 86/No. 39 - October 24, 2022
Lisa Potash, SWP candidate for U.S. Senate from Georgia, speaks at “Women, life, freedom” rally Oct. 8 in Atlanta protesting death of Mahsa Amini in Iran. “Workers and farmers in Iran bear brunt of worldwide capitalist economic crisis, compounded by U.S. sanctions,” she said.

Socialist Workers Party candidates and members have been building and participating in demonstrations across the U.S. in solidarity with working people and youth protesting in Iran over the death of Mahsa Amini after she was detained for allegedly violating the…


Protests in Iran grow over death of Mahsa Amini, gov’t repression

Vol. 86/No. 38 - October 17, 2022
Teachers involved in school sit-in in Shiraz, Oct. 4 supporting sweeping protests over death of Mahsa Amini, an Iranian Kurdish woman, after her arrest by Iran’s “morality police.”

Despite brutal repression by government forces, protests against the police killing of Mahsa Amini have spread to all of Iran’s 31 provinces, and among working people from the country’s main nationalities and religions. Amini, a Kurdish woman, died Sept. 16,…



Lebanese toilers seek their money after banks freeze funds

Vol. 86/No. 37 - October 10, 2022

Sali Hafiz, right, at May 23 protest in Beirut, instantly became a folk hero across Lebanon after she entered a bank Sept. 14 with a fake gun and demanded $20,000 of her own money. Earlier the bank denied her request…



SWP campaigns to build support for labor battles, win new readers

Vol. 86/No. 36 - October 3, 2022
BSNF rail worker Gary Cockerham, right, told SWP member Dennis Richter, center, in Ft. Worth Sept. 20 about how crew cuts and increasingly longer trains make rail work more dangerous.

Members of the Socialist Workers Party — and Communist Leagues in Australia, Canada and the U.K. — are going out to workers’ doorsteps, union picket lines, labor movement events and protest actions to discuss conditions confronting workers and farmers today,…