SPALDING, England — As they enter their fifth week on strike for higher pay, Unite members at the food giant Bakkavor say their union is getting stronger. Over 100 workers in the plant have now joined the 700 who initially…
NEW YORK — “One year after the Oct. 7 pogrom in Israel, there is no change in the decadeslong reactionary aims of the regime in Tehran and the organizations it leads, Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis and others,” said Dave Prince,…
“Is the use of cosmetics worth the attention of a Marxist?” JACK BUSTELO “Naked or clothed, dressed in linen or polyester, shaved, plucked, tattooed, painted, adorned with pearls or ceramic beads, siliconed, liposuctioned, covered with visible or invisible scars, with…
For eight years Democrats have hammered away on one central point — telling the world that Donald Trump is “dangerous” and has to be stopped at all costs. Lacking any positive program to deal with the crisis conditions working people…
Below are the first two chapters of the new 2024 edition of Cosmetics, Fashion, and the Exploitation of Women by Mary-Alice Waters, Evelyn Reed and Joseph Hansen, available in December. Waters is a longtime leader of the Socialist Workers Party and…
The BRICS alliance, led by Beijing and Moscow to counter Washington, held its annual summit Oct. 22-24, hosted by Russian President Vladimir Putin. Behind its veneer of unanimity, the conference highlighted the divergent interests within the bloc, tensions over Moscow’s…
FORT WORTH, Texas — Marthen Goo, a member of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua, met Socialist Workers Party members George Chalmers and myself in Enid, Oklahoma, Oct. 20. Goo recently moved there and was encouraged by other members…
CINCINNATI — Dennis Richter, Socialist Workers Party candidate for vice president, brought the party’s working-class program to rail workers at the CSX Queensgate yard here Oct. 28. Jennifer Noell was among those who stopped to talk. “I’ve seen your campaign…
Rachele Fruit, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. president, joined the SWP in Philadelphia in 1970, where she was active in the Student Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam. As a high school student she participated in civil…
