Omari Musa: 57 years building the Socialist Workers Party

Vol. 89/No. 15 - April 21, 2025
Omari Musa, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Congress in Florida, explains SWP program in 2008. He joined the party in 1969 and stood as an SWP candidate 19 times.

WASHINGTON — A meeting organized by the branch of the Socialist Workers Party here was held March 22 to celebrate the life of Omari Musa, a veteran cadre of some 57 years building the communist movement in the U.S. and…


SWP fights for NJ ballot: 650 signatures in 4 days!

Vol. 89/No. 15 - April 21, 2025
“Workers appreciate Militant’s  defense of immigrants,” Joanne Kuniansky, SWP candidate for governor of New Jersey, told forum April 5. Campaigners got 23 subscriptions over four days.

UNION CITY, N.J. — In the opening four days of the fight to get the Socialist Workers Party on the ballot in New Jersey, 650 signatures were gathered, as well as 23 subscriptions to the Militant and 24 books by…


8,000 day care workers strike, march on gov’t in Quebec City

Vol. 89/No. 15 - April 21, 2025

QUEBEC CITY — Eight thousand striking day care workers from all corners of Quebec marched on the provincial legislature here April 3. Some 13,000 education workers and support staff overall, members of the Confederation of National Trade Unions (CSN), from…


‘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…


Toilers in Ukraine fight to defend their nat’l sovereignty

Vol. 89/No. 14 - April 14, 2025

President Donald Trump’s efforts to broker a ceasefire in Moscow’s war against Ukraine have become more protracted than he expected. The Ukrainian government has backed Trump’s ceasefire plan, but Moscow categorically rejects it. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime is continuing…


New protests erupt in Gaza against brutal rule of Hamas

Vol. 89/No. 14 - April 14, 2025
Thousands took to the streets of Beit Lahiya April 2 to demand Hamas get out of Gaza. Anger at Hamas for bringing destruction to Palestinians is growing.

Three days of protests by thousands of Palestinians in Gaza punctured the illusion promoted by Hamas and its apologists around the world that the Tehran-backed group defends the national interests of the people there. The just demands and courage of…