Thousands of workers open to discussing SWP program NEW YORK — Paul Mailhot, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of New York, and Craig Honts, SWP candidate for lieutenant governor in New Jersey, shared the platform at a Militant Labor…
Socialist Workers Party members are discussing what workers can do to end capitalist exploitation, oppression and the growing threat of more wars, as they present the party’s election campaigns in working-class neighborhoods, on strike picket lines and elsewhere. They’re explaining…
GREENBELT, Md. — Maryland sheet metal apprentice and SMART union member Kilmar Abrego García could face immediate deportation if he’s released from a Nashville, Tennessee, jail, where he’s being held prior to facing government frame-up charges of human smuggling. A…
The Iranian regime is stepping up expulsions of hundreds of thousands of Afghan immigrants in the wake of Israel’s defensive airstrikes to stop Tehran’s yearslong drive to destroy it as a refuge for Jews. These chauvinist, anti-working-class attacks on Afghans…
CHICAGO — An appalling report on the recent death of a rail worker on the job, released June 25 by the National Transportation Safety Board, confirms America’s rail bosses have no regard for safety. It underscores the need for the…
FORT WORTH, Texas — Over the July 4th weekend a devastating flood hit towns along the Guadalupe River in the Central Texas Hill Country. So far, 134 people have died and 101 are still missing. Hardest hit was Kerr County,…
MANTECA, Calif. — Three dozen members of Teamsters Local 439 went on strike against Republic Services Forward Landfill here July 8, 15 miles south of Stockton in Northern California. The company’s garbage truck drivers, members of the same local, are…
The July 6-7 summit of the 11 BRICS nations — first established by Brazil, Russia, India and China in 2009, with South Africa joining in 2011 — was notable for the absence of the presidents of China and Russia, as…
STILLWATER, Minn. — Over 80 members of Service Employees International Union Minnesota & Iowa held a four-day strike here July 8-11 as they fight for a contract from HealthPartners SMG clinic. The strikers are licensed practical nurses, certified medical assistants…
LONDON — Looking to make the U.K.’s military “war ready,” Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced a series of government moves to bolster its fighting capability June 2. The country faces a “more serious and immediate” threat than any time since…
