Political crisis, gang violence hang heavy on Haitian toilers

Vol. 89/No. 11 - March 24, 2025
Demonstrators march in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Feb. 17, 2022, demanding a higher minimum wage. Imperialist disdain, massive gang violence have pushed workers’ struggles aside today.

The protracted political crisis and murderous gang violence in Haiti continues to spiral, with devastating consequences for working people. At least 5,600 people were killed by gangs in 2024, and the number of those forced to flee their homes tripled…


Profitable cosmetic surgeries spread worldwide

Vol. 89/No. 11 - March 24, 2025

Cosmetic surgeries and injections “have been getting cheaper, less invasive and vastly more common in recent years, in middle income countries as well as rich ones,” a Jan. 4 article in the Economist boasts. “Falling costs and technology have democratized”…


IDF report shows its political bias allowed Hamas pogrom

Vol. 89/No. 10 - March 17, 2025

On Feb. 27 the Israel Defense Forces made public a summary of its self-investigation of its failings leading to the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas pogrom. It gives a glimpse of the scope of the massacre that day and exposes the…


Teamsters on strike at 10 Roads Express gain solidarity

Vol. 89/No. 10 - March 17, 2025

NEWARK, N.J. — On the 10 Roads Express picket line here March 1, two truckers and their Teamsters Local 641 representative discussed their strike with Joanne Kuniansky, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New Jersey governor, who came to offer solidarity.…



Athens publishing workers protest against firings

Vol. 89/No. 10 - March 17, 2025

ATHENS, Greece — Thirty-five workers, family and supporters picketed the main buildings at MM Publications in the Athens suburb of Alimos Feb. 20. MM Publications is one of the major publishing houses in the country, producing schoolbooks used here and…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 89/No. 10 - March 17, 2025

March 13, 2000 HAVANA — The following appeared in the Cuban newspaper Granma Internacional. It reports on a press conference by six farmers from the U.S. who conducted a fact-finding trip to Cuba. “I have discovered a big difference between…



‘Bosses’ attacks today flow from crisis of capitalism’

Vol. 89/No. 10 - March 17, 2025
Eric Simpson, SWP mayoral candidate in Oakland, at candidates debate Feb. 26. The working class is “only class that has no interest in exploitation and can open new future for humanity.”

OAKLAND, Calif. — Socialist Workers Party mayoral candidate Eric Simpson presented a line of march for the working class to take political power in his remarks at a candidates debate organized by Oaklandside, a widely read news website Feb. 26.…


‘We run to build a party for workers to take power’

Vol. 89/No. 10 - March 17, 2025
Joanne Kuniansky, right, now Socialist Workers Party candidate for New Jersey governor, talks with striking nurses, members of USW Local 4-200, at hospital in New Brunswick, Aug. 6, 2023.

“The world working people face today is marked by deepening capitalist crises, which drive sharpening conflicts between allies and rivals alike, more wars and the threat of nuclear conflagration. That’s why the Socialist Workers Party campaign starts from the world,”…