Australian construction workers fight to defend their union

Vol. 88/No. 37 - October 7, 2024

SYDNEY — Chanting “Union Power!” more than 5,000 construction and other building trades workers marched through the central city here Sept. 18 protesting the Labor government’s takeover of the construction workers’ union. Tens of thousands also marched in Melbourne, and…


SWP begins fall campaign to expand reach of the party

Vol. 88/No. 37 - October 7, 2024
Ezequiel Olmedo, left, a farmworker in Sunnyside, Washington, discusses the SWP campaign program with Vincent Auger, SWP candidate for governor of Washington, Aug. 12.

On Sept. 21 the Socialist Workers Party began its fall campaign. Over the next eight weeks leading up to and immediately following the presidential election SWP members will expand the reach of the party, its presidential ticket of Rachele Fruit…


‘Fight Against Jew-Hatred’ big seller at Fete de l’Humanite

Vol. 88/No. 37 - October 7, 2024
'Fight Against Jew-Hatred’ big seller at Fete de l’Humanite

BRTIGNY-SUR-ORGE, France — Record numbers of books by Socialist Workers Party leaders and other revolutionaries were sold at Pathfinder Press booth at this year’s Fete de l’Humanite Sept. 13-15. The annual event is organized by the French Communist Party. Hundreds…


Study, use SWP victory against FBI

Vol. 88/No. 37 - October 7, 2024

Under capitalism all the trappings of government — from the White House to the state houses, the courts of all stripes, and regulatory and other nonelected agencies, to the FBI and cops — serve the interests of the ruling capitalist…


Richter: ‘We need our own party, a party of labor’

Vol. 88/No. 37 - October 7, 2024
Nelson Salgado, left, at truck stop in Paulsboro, New Jersey, Sept. 22, told Dennis Richter, SWP candidate for vice president, that he agreed with him that workers need to take power.

PAULSBORO, N.J. — “I thought it was ‘We, the people’ who are supposed to be in charge,” trucker Santiago Corpus told Dennis Richter, Socialist Workers Party candidate for vice president, when he campaigned at a long-haul truck stop here Sept.…


Join, build Oct. 7 actions against Jew-hatred

Vol. 88/No. 37 - October 7, 2024

The fight against Jew-hatred is a key question everywhere. It will be decisive to all working-class battles today against the brutal consequences for humanity of imperialism in decline. That’s why working people everywhere should join actions marking the one-year anniversary…


Texas truckers protest in NY for better pay, conditions

Vol. 88/No. 36 - September 30, 2024
Texas truckers protest in NY for better pay, conditions

NEW YORK — Independent truckers active in a fight for better pay and working conditions in the oil-producing Permian Basin, in western Texas, traveled here to hold a protest outside the headquarters of investment management company BlackRock Sept. 18. They…


Join fight against ban on the ‘Militant’ in Florida prison

Vol. 88/No. 36 - September 30, 2024

It’s now been nearly five months since Militant issue no. 17 was impounded by Jackson Correctional Institution prison authorities in Malone, Florida. Every day that goes by without the overturn of the ban is a serious violation of prisoners’ constitutional…


Democrats, Republicans: twin parties of the capitalist rulers

Vol. 88/No. 36 - September 30, 2024
Rail union members protest in Washington, D.C., Dec. 13, 2022, after Biden, bipartisan Congress imposed rail contract and banned planned strike. “What’s needed is for workers to take political power into our own hands,” said Joanne Kuniansky, left, SWP 2024 candidate for Senate.

With the Nov. 5 election just about six weeks away, the capitalist rulers are redoubling their efforts to convince working people we have no choice but to hold our nose and pick the “lesser evil” between Vice President Kamala Harris…


Moscow’s deadly war in Ukraine demoralizes Russian troops

Vol. 88/No. 36 - September 30, 2024

Ukrainian forces launched a second incursion into the Russian Federation Sept. 12, 20 miles west of their thrust into the Kursk region five weeks earlier. Ukrainian tanks and troops took the town of Vesoloe, again scatterng poorly prepared and unmotivated…