‘I stand for socialism, Cuba, independence for Puerto Rico’

Vol. 88/No. 24 - June 17, 2024
March to U.S. Federal Building in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 2006, protesting the FBI killing of Macheteros leader Filiberto Ojeda Ríos and FBI raids on homes of pro-independence fighters. For decades the Puerto Rican people have fought to get out from under Uncle Sam’s boot.

Puerto Rico: Independence Is a Necessity by Rafael Cancel Miranda is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for June. Rachele Fruit, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for president, will be representing the party, speaking before the U.N. commission on…


Rulers across Europe boost militaries, war preparations

Vol. 88/No. 24 - June 17, 2024

Rivalries, trade wars and the growing threat of more shooting wars are a reality across the capitalist world today. This future underscores the stakes for working people in organizing to take political power out of the capitalist rulers’ hands. Nowhere…


Letter

Vol. 88/No. 24 - June 17, 2024

Pleased to learn about the Socialist Workers Party I recently subscribed to the Militant, and I am pleased to discover the existence of the Socialist Workers Party. The open antisemitism of the (Stalinist) CPUSA drove me away from it, when…


Molson Coors workers return to work after hard-fought strike

Vol. 88/No. 24 - June 17, 2024

FORT WORTH, Texas — After a three-month hard-fought strike, members of Teamsters Local 997 at Molson Coors Brewery here accepted a three-year contract May 22. Workers said 270 voted yes and 84 voted no. They began returning to work May…


Corrections

Vol. 88/No. 24 - June 17, 2024

The headline in an article in issue no. 23 misstated that “Oberlin College fired lacrosse coach for saying, ‘Women’s sports are for women.’” Former Oberlin College lacrosse coach Kim Russell was not fired. She was removed from coaching duties in…



SWP campaign prepares to file for ballot in Tennessee

Vol. 88/No. 24 - June 17, 2024

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — “I don’t believe in the other candidates,” Lycinda Richards, a disabled worker living in Johnson City, told Socialist Workers Party campaigners Arrin Hawkins and Richard Hazboun when they knocked on her door May 18. Hawkins and Hazboun…


SWP files petitions to put party on New Jersey ballot

Vol. 88/No. 24 - June 17, 2024
Lea Sherman, left, SWP candidate for Congress, and Joanne Kuniansky, SWP candidate for U.S. Senate, turn in twice the required signatures to be placed on New Jersey ballot May 31 in Trenton, accompanied by Ved Dookhun, SWP candidate for U.S. Senate from Pennsylvania.

UNION CITY, N.J. — “Two SWP candidates file as independents,” the Hudson County View reported June 1. Joanne Kuniansky, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Senate from New Jersey, and Lea Sherman, the party’s candidate for Congress, filed petitions…


Richter: Trump conviction is blow to rights of working people

Vol. 88/No. 24 - June 17, 2024

CINCINNATI — “The conviction of Donald Trump was celebrated in huge headlines in the Dallas-Fort Worth newspapers and liberal media across the country,” Dennis Richter, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. vice president, told supporters at a June 1 campaign…


New endorser backs SWP call for labor party

Vol. 88/No. 24 - June 17, 2024
New endorser backs SWP call for labor party

EL RENO, Okla. — “America needs an independent labor party from the workers,” Robert Stock said as he signed a card to endorse the campaign of Rachele Fruit, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. president, June 2. Stock, above left,…