SWP campaigns expand reach of ‘Militant,’ books; fund tops 100%!

Vol. 88/No. 45 - December 2, 2024
After deadly explosion at Louisville factory, Hope Harp, right, a member of Millwrights Local 1076, told Socialist Workers Party member Amy Husk Nov. 17, “What happened in that plant should never have happened. Two workers are dead. This is everybody’s concern.”

Members of the Socialist Workers Party and of the Communist Leagues in Australia, Canada and the U.K. have gone over the top on their quotas in the fall party-building campaign! In the weeks after the U.S. election, party members continued…


‘The rent is just too damn high in New York City!’

Vol. 88/No. 45 - December 2, 2024

NEW YORK — Persistently high rents and home mortgage prices make it increasingly difficult for working people to live here. And workers face similar situations in growing numbers of cities and rural areas across the country. “Why ‘Affordable Housing’ in…


D.C. protest defends Israel’s right to exist as refuge for Jews

Vol. 88/No. 44 - November 25, 2024

WASHINGTON — Several thousand people joined in “Stand Together,” a Nov. 10 rally and concert to defend Israel’s right to exist, to demand Hamas release the hostages it has held for over a year and to fight against antisemitism. The…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 88/No. 44 - November 25, 2024

November 29, 1999 The Russian government has begun a de facto military occupation of Chechnya — deploying 100,000 troops in and around the republic. The Kremlin, which originally claimed it needed to create a “buffer zone” against “Islamic terrorists,” is…


‘Unions are stepping forward to take on the bosses attacks today’

Vol. 88/No. 44 - November 25, 2024
Rachele Fruit, right, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. president, speaks with Boeing striker Howard Allen on picket line in Everett, Washington, Oct. 5, about key issues facing workers today.

‘We learned a lot in our campaign’: an interview with Socialist Workers Party candidates Rachele Fruit and Dennis Richter Rachele Fruit and Dennis Richter, the 2024 Socialist Workers Party candidates for president and vice president, presented the SWP’s working-class program…


Join campaign to expand reach of the ‘Militant,’ books, fall fund

Vol. 88/No. 44 - November 25, 2024

FORT WORTH, Texas — With the 2024 election over and President-elect Donald Trump preparing his administration, members of the Socialist Workers Party are finding ongoing interest among working people in the party’s program and activity. Workers want to discuss what…



Milk-Bone strikers fight attacks on health care, win labor support

Vol. 88/No. 44 - November 25, 2024
Teamster Local 446 members join BCTGM Milk-Bone strikers Nov. 10 in Buffalo, New York.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Some 30 members and supporters of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 36G were on the picket line at the J.M. Smucker Company’s Milk-Bone factory here Nov. 10 when Militant worker-correspondents arrived to bring solidarity.…


Conference to build solidarity with Cuba across Asia meets in Beijing

Vol. 88/No. 44 - November 25, 2024
Participants in 10th Asia-Pacific Regional Conference of Solidarity with Cuba in Beijing Oct. 29. In front from left, Ambassador Phouangkeo Langsy, vice president of Laos-Cuba Friendship Association; Fernando González, president of Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples; Bijay Kumar Padhihari, general secretary, Indian Society for Cultural Co-Operation and Friendship; H.E. Mrs. Nin Saphon, National Assembly of Takeo Province, Cambodia.

BEIJING — The 65-year-long punishing sanctions imposed by Washington against the Cuban people and their socialist revolution were condemned by participants at the 10th Asia-Pacific Regional Conference of Solidarity with Cuba, held here Oct. 29-30. The meeting took place as…