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SWP campaigners fan out to put Rachele Fruit on New Jersey ballot
Working-class alternative to Biden-Trump-Kennedy

New Jersey, New York SWP candidates explain program BY ROY LANDERSEN UNION CITY, N.J. — “Every four years the Socialist Workers Party has a special opportunity to contest with the capitalist rulers’ candidates to become president of the United States,…

Campaign to expand reach of ‘Militant,’ books, fund March 9-May 7 (week 4)

Rachele Fruit campaign wins wide interest from workers

The Socialist Workers Party campaign of Rachele Fruit for U.S. president is at the heart of an eight-week international drive by the party and Communist Leagues in Australia, Canada and the U.K. to get out the word about the campaign…

Tehran admits ‘strategic role’ in deadly Oct. 7 Hamas pogrom

The Coalition Council of Islamic Revolution Forces, one of the key political groups in Iran’s parliament, admitted April 3 that Tehran played a “strategic role … in planning and executing” the Oct. 7 pogrom in Israel, giving the lie to…

Erdogan regime faces widespread election defeats all across Turkey

The two-decades-long domination of Turkish politics by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was shaken March 31 when his Islamist-based Justice and Development Party (AKP) suffered an unexpected and unprecedented defeat in nationwide municipal elections. For the first time the secular opposition…

After bridge collapse, longshore and other workers face devastating crisis

BALTIMORE — The extent of the social disaster for working people here caused by the March 26 collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge — a result of the bosses’ dog-eat-dog drive for profits at all costs — is becoming…

‘What’s wrong with the economy? It’s you, not the data,’ paper tells workers

The Joseph Biden administration and liberal media praying for his reelection describe the latest government economic reports at the beginning of April as big improvements for everyone. But working people, whose experiences are quite different, aren’t buying it. “What’s Wrong…

Court gag orders to shut Trump up are blow to free speech

Judge Juan Merchan issued a gag order March 26 in an effort to further silence Donald Trump, President Joseph Biden’s main rival among the three main capitalist candidates for the White House. This assault on free speech is an attempt…

Solidarity with flight attendants fight!

The Association of Flight Attendants union called protests at nearly 20 airports in the United States, Guam and the United Kingdom for April 11. It’s one of many protests the three flight attendants’ unions have called in their hard-fought battle…

Calif. nurses: ‘We’re out here striking for our patients’

GILROY, Calif. — Nurses carried out a spirited four-day strike at Santa Clara County hospitals April 2-5, with loud picket lines outside two hospitals in San Jose and one here. When supporters of the Socialist Workers Party campaign of Rachele…