Cuba’s socialist revolution set example for toilers worldwide

Vol. 89/No. 14 - April 14, 2025
Literacy brigade volunteers in Havana, 1961. Mass literacy campaign closed gap between town and country, cemented worker-peasant alliance, advanced road to Cuba’s socialist revolution.

The French edition of Cuba and the Coming American Revolution by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for April. Sixty-four years ago, Cuban workers and peasants in the Revolutionary…


5,000 march in California to defend immigrant rights

Vol. 89/No. 14 - April 14, 2025
Over 5,000 workers march in Delano, California, March 31. They demanded rights for immigrant workers, protested recent deportations. Unionists brought solidarity from across state.

DELANO, Calif. — Over 5,000 workers marched here March 31, demanding rights for immigrant workers and protesting recent deportations and other attacks. Over 30 buses organized by the California Federation of Labor and other unions, as well as other organizations,…


Immigrants’ rights march in Dallas says No! to deportations

Vol. 89/No. 14 - April 14, 2025

DALLAS — Thousands joined the “2025 Mega March” for immigration reform organized by the League of United Latin American Citizens here March 30. The spirited protest marched from the National Shrine Cathedral of Our Lady of Guadalupe through downtown Dallas…


For a sliding scale of wages and hours

Vol. 89/No. 14 - April 14, 2025

The following is an excerpt from the founding resolution of the Socialist Workers Party, written by Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky and adopted in 1938. It addresses the centrality of the workers’ movement taking on the fight against the twin scourges…


All out on May Day!

Vol. 89/No. 14 - April 14, 2025

The sizable, labor-backed marches supporting the rights of immigrants in Delano, California, and Dallas, Texas, are an example for the entire labor movement. They brought together thousands of workers to protest against deportations. Socialist Workers Party members urging amnesty for…


‘Workers need to take political power into our own hands’

Vol. 89/No. 14 - April 14, 2025
Laura Garza, SWP candidate for mayor of Los Angeles, and Eric Simpson, SWP candidate for mayor of Oakland, California, join march in defense of immigrants rights in Delano March 31.

SWP candidates get hearing for working-class program DELANO, Calif.— Norton Sandler, Socialist Workers Party candidate for California governor, launched his campaign as he joined several thousand farmworkers and other unionists fighting to defend the rights of immigrants at the “With…


Court orders San Jose strikers back to work

Vol. 89/No. 14 - April 14, 2025
Members of Amalgamated Transit Union in San Jose picket March 17. Judge ordered strikers back to work March 26.

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The 17-day strike of public transit workers here ended abruptly March 26 after a Santa Clara County judge ordered the strikers back to work. It was a blow to the 1,500 bus drivers, light-rail workers and…


Farmworkers protest against ICE arrest of union leader

Vol. 89/No. 14 - April 14, 2025
Over 400 protesters rallied to demand release of farmworkers’ union organizer Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez at ICE’s Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington, March 27.

SEATTLE — Early in the morning of March 25 Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez Zeferino, a leader of the farmworkers union, Familias Unidas por la Justicia, was stopped by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Skagit County as he drove his…


Back BCTGM workers on strike at Knappen Milling in Michigan

Vol. 89/No. 14 - April 14, 2025

AUGUSTA, Mich. — Twenty workers at Knappen Milling, members of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 3G, went on strike here March 11. The workers, who make baking flour, are fighting for wages that keep up with sky-high…


Join campaign to put the SWP on New Jersey ballot

Vol. 89/No. 14 - April 14, 2025
Joanne Kuniansky, SWP candidate for New Jersey governor, with Joe Rutkoski, NALC Branch 38 president, at March 23 rally in Springfield, N.J., against threatened cuts in postal service.

UNION CITY, N.J. — Beginning April 5, Socialist Workers Party campaigners will be fanning out from here across the state to introduce the party, its program, candidates and activities widely to working people, and to put Joanne Kuniansky for governor…