Endorse Rachele Fruit for president!

SWP campaign stands for independent working-class political action
Vol. 88/No. 19 - May 13, 2024

We urge our readers to endorse Rachele Fruit, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. president. There is no other choice you can make that will advance toward a break with the capitalist parties and a step toward independent working-class…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 88/No. 19 - May 13, 2024

May 17, 1999 SEATTLE — Luis Morejón and Itamys García, two Cuban youth leaders, came to Seattle as part of their six-week U.S. speaking tour, and some 360 people in several meetings heard them speak about the Cuban revolution today.…


Philadelphia Aramark workers strike for better wages, benefits

Vol. 88/No. 19 - May 13, 2024

PHILADELPHIA — “We want to be treated fairly and with respect,” Lori Gibson, one of hundreds of UNITE HERE Local 274 members on the picket line here on strike against Aramark April 25, told the Militant. They were picketing at…


UAW members win raises, COLA, end tiers at Daimler

Vol. 88/No. 19 - May 13, 2024

BY DIANE SHUR, JANE ROLAND AND SUE SKINNER STATESVILLE, N.C. — A tentative contract agreement was announced between Daimler Truck and the United Auto Workers April 26, an hour before the strike deadline. According to UAW officials the four-year agreement…




Campaigners take SWP program to working class

Vol. 88/No. 19 - May 13, 2024

Socialist Workers Party candidates and their supporters are finding wide interest in a working-class road forward as they campaign for Rachele Fruit, the party’s candidate for U.S. president. They are taking the party’s campaign and program to workers on their…



Democrats’ attack on constitutional rights is threat to working people

Vol. 88/No. 19 - May 13, 2024

The Democrats’ frantic drive to get compliant judges to throw Donald Trump in jail before November’s election is bumping into some constitutional challenges. And millions of working people can see a presidential candidate is being charged for things that are…


Fight against Jew-hatred is crucial for the working class

Vol. 88/No. 19 - May 13, 2024

Hamas’ international propaganda machine — promoted by middle-class leftists worldwide — keeps churning out lies that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, that people there are on the verge of starvation, that no women were raped by Hamas Oct. 7…