‘As crisis of capitalism grows, workers need to take power’

Vol. 89/No. 31 - September 1, 2025
Susan LaMont, SWP candidate for mayor of Atlanta, talks with Reggie Wright, patient at VA hospital in Decatur, Georgia. He joined nurses’ protest against gov’t ending union contracts.

Socialist Workers Party candidates around the country are meeting workers involved in fights against worsening working conditions and wages you can’t live on, and they’re pointing to the need to expand solidarity with union battles. They’re discussing why the assaults…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 89/No. 31 - September 1, 2025

August 28, 2000 NEW YORK — “CWA! CWA! CWA!” chanted a sea of 8,000 red-shirted strikers bearing banners and signs in a militant and spirited mobilization here outside the national headquarters of Verizon Communications August 10. The show of force…


Back Ukrainian people’s fight to defend their nat’l sovereignty

Vol. 89/No. 31 - September 1, 2025

The stance of the Donald Trump administration in its efforts to bring to an end Moscow’s assaults on the Ukrainian people continues to shift almost daily. What doesn’t change is its goal of advancing the interests of U.S. imperialism.  Trump…


UK refuse workers fight pay cuts, attack on right to strike

Vol. 89/No. 30 - August 25, 2025

BIRMINGHAM, England — “I’m  determined to stay to the end of this fight,” striker Derek Roberts said as he and some 30 other strikers maintained a protest picket line at the Lifford Lane refuse depot here Aug. 7. Several hundred…


SkyChef airport food workers protest for new contract

Vol. 89/No. 30 - August 25, 2025

SEATAC, Wash. — Some 100 SkyChef airport food preparation workers, members of the UNITE HERE union, and their supporters rallied at the airport here Aug. 7, above, part of a National Day of Action. Overall, some 10,000 SkyChef workers are…


Rally in Philadelphia demands that ICE ‘Bring Anou home!’

Vol. 89/No. 30 - August 25, 2025
Hundreds at Aug. 9 protest against ICE arrest of Laotian-born Anou Vongbandith in Philadelphia. “This is not just about Anou, but about every family torn apart like ours,” said his wife, Ahn.

PHILADELPHIA — Several hundred people filled the block outside Das Good Cafe in the Germantown neighborhood here Aug. 9 chanting “Bring Anou home!” and “Who’s our neighbor? Anou’s our neighbor!” The rally protested Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention of co-owner…


Protest hits ICE, Ambridge, Pa., cops immigration raids

Vol. 89/No. 30 - August 25, 2025

AMBRIDGE, Pa. — More than 50 people gathered here Aug. 1 to protest a combined local police and Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation the night before, which led to the arrest of at least 10 people. The police and county…


SWP at Seattle debate: ‘Cuban Revolution is example for today’

Vol. 89/No. 30 - August 25, 2025
Jacob Perasso, SWP mayoral candidate, speaks at Seattle candidates’ forum at Filipino Community Center July 30. “Workers need to take power into our own hands,” he said.

SEATTLE — The Socialist Workers Party candidates here, Rebecca Williamson for King County Executive and Jacob Perasso for mayor, participated in a candidates’ forum at the Filipino Community Center July 30 organized by the King County International Airport Community Coalition.…


Back Teamsters on strike at Republic Services!

Vol. 89/No. 30 - August 25, 2025

Six weeks into their strike, over 400 sanitation workers at Republic Services in Massachusetts, Illinois and Georgia are fighting for better wages and lower health care costs. The strikers, members of the Teamsters, face a bosses’ strikebreaking operation and need…


New attacks on synagogues show real face of Jew-hatred

Vol. 89/No. 30 - August 25, 2025
Jew-hating death threat on door of Congregation Emanu-El, Victoria, British Columbia, Aug. 2.

Attacks on synagogues in Australia, Canada and elsewhere over recent weeks highlight the stakes in the fight to defend Israel as a refuge for Jews, to advance the working-class fight against Jew-hatred and pogroms. In British Columbia, Canada, someone scrawled…