‘The working class needs its own party, a party of labor’

Vol. 88/No. 34 - September 16, 2024
Rachele Fruit, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. president, speaks at public meeting in London Aug. 24, organized by Communist League, at end of her weeklong visit to the U.K.

Rachele Fruit: ‘Workers in the US, UK face common enemy’ LONDON — Rachele Fruit, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. president, ended her weeklong visit to the U.K. at a public meeting here Aug. 24, organized by the Communist League’s…


US seizes Maduro plane in attack on Venezuela sovereignty

Vol. 88/No. 34 - September 16, 2024

In yet another escalation in Washington’s aggression against Venezuela’s sovereignty, U.S. officials seized a private jet used by Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro for state business and flew it from the Dominican Republic to Florida Sept. 2. The seizure takes place…


Dennis Richter: ‘Back fights by truckers, all workers!’

Vol. 88/No. 34 - September 16, 2024
Dennis Richter, SWP vice presidential candidate, discusses truckers’ fight for better conditions with Shawnta Hamerter, a truck driver, at truck stop in Fort Worth, Texas, Aug. 26.

FORT WORTH, Texas — “We need to build a party of labor for all of us workers,” Dennis Richter, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. vice president, told truck driver Patrick Edgar Brooks at the Pilot truck stop here…


Nurses in London strike over hours, need for staffing

Vol. 88/No. 34 - September 16, 2024

LONDON — Around 100 day-surgery nurses at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ hospitals have been in a fight with bosses since June over unsustainable increases to their work shifts. Management first increased hospital hours from 7 a.m.-7 p.m. to 7 a.m.-8…


Rail workers battle combined forces of bosses, Canadian gov’t

Vol. 88/No. 34 - September 16, 2024

MONTREAL — “We haven’t seen a class confrontation in Canada on this scale in decades,” Philippe Tessier, a Canadian National rail conductor and Teamster union strike picket captain, told a Militant Labor Forum here Aug. 24. In the final analysis,…


Nurses strikes spread across Iran

Vol. 88/No. 34 - September 16, 2024
Nurses strikes spread across Iran

Thousands of nurses in Iran have joined strikes that began Aug. 2 and spread to over 60 hospitals and health centers in 40 cities across the country. Hundreds of EMTs have joined the strike. Along with some supporters, they lined…


Defend Ukraine independence! Anti-war views spread in Russia

Vol. 88/No. 34 - September 16, 2024
Workers from Independent Trade Union of Miners of Ukraine at damaged Kapitalna coal mine in Ukraine’s southeast Donetsk region. Russian missile attack Aug. 6 injured several miners.

A month after Ukrainian forces drove into the Kursk region of Russia Aug. 6, opposition to the war is growing among Russian conscripts and their families. The Ukrainian offensive is aimed at dealing blows to Moscow’s invasion led by Russian…


As campuses open, Hamas apologists renew attacks on Jews

Vol. 88/No. 34 - September 16, 2024

As college campuses across the U.S. reopen for the new semester, pro-Hamas forces are returning to attacks against Jews there and their campaign against Israel. Several dozen protesters picketed outside Columbia University Sept. 3 on the first day of class.…



25, 50 and 75 years ago

Vol. 88/No. 34 - September 16, 2024

September 20, 1999 CHICAGO — Eleven Puerto Rican political prisoners, most of whom have spent two decades in U.S. prisons because of their pro-independence actions, are due to be released soon. This victory is the result of an international campaign…