‘Workers need to build a party to lead fight for political power’

Vol. 85/No. 31 - August 23, 2021
Dennis Richter, right, SWP candidate for governor of California, talks with high school student Marcus Connelly at L.A. Walmart Aug. 5. Connelly said U.S. government should have made sure everyone could get vaccinated and jabs were given “to poor countries around the world.”

Socialist Workers Party candidates and campaign supporters are taking the party’s working-class politics far and wide, exchanging views and experiences with working people on their doorsteps, at strike picket lines and social protests. Workers and farmers are seeking ways we…


California fire catastrophe is a product of capitalist greed

Vol. 85/No. 31 - August 23, 2021

PARADISE, Calif. — High winds and extremely dry vegetation are fueling the Dixie Fire that has grown to burn over 450,000 acres — twice the size of New York City and the second-largest fire in California history. The historic town…


Working people, youth mobilize to defend socialist revolution in Cuba

Vol. 85/No. 31 - August 23, 2021
Students, workers, farmers discuss road forward with Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel in Havana Aug. 5. Gov’t is organizing to take on economic challenges, impact of U.S. embargo.

President Joseph Biden announced July 30 that Washington plans to “increase pressure” on Cuba. Since Fidel Castro and the July 26 Movement led Cuban workers and farmers to make a socialist revolution over 60 years ago, every U.S. president, Democrat…



On anniversary of port explosion, workers protest crisis in Lebanon

Vol. 85/No. 31 - August 23, 2021

Tens of thousands of protesters rallied against the Lebanese government in central Beirut Aug. 4 on the first anniversary of a huge explosion that killed over 200 people, injured 7,000 and forced a quarter of a million from their homes.…


Woolworth sit-ins opened new stage in 1960s civil rights fight

Vol. 85/No. 31 - August 23, 2021
April 1960 Young Socialist campaigns to build mass protest movement that won desegregation at Woolworth’s. Inset, Frank McCain in February 1960, who with three fellow Black students began sit-in movement in North Carolina.

“The best feeling of my life was sitting on that dumb stool,” Frank McCain said, describing the moment he and three other Black students sat down at a “whites-only” lunch counter at a Woolworth’s in Greensboro, North Carolina, Feb. 1,…


Cecelia Moriarity, 45 years as a Socialist Workers Party cadre

Vol. 85/No. 31 - August 23, 2021
Cecelia Moriarity showing Militant, books by Socialist Workers Party leaders, other revolutionaries to Darralita Taylor in Seattle in 2013. She explained Militant was uncompromising.

SEATTLE — Over 40 people attended a meeting here Aug. 1 to celebrate the rich political life of Socialist Workers Party member Cecelia Moriarity. A 45-year cadre of the communist movement, Moriarity died July 23 at age 74. Over 30…


Puerto Rican truckers win gains in two-day strike

Vol. 85/No. 31 - August 23, 2021

Thousands of independent owner operator truck drivers and some trucking companies ended a two-day work stoppage July 22 after the Puerto Rican government agreed to extend for at least a year a 35% increase in mileage and hauling rates temporarily…


Gen. Armando Choy, lifelong Chinese Cuban revolutionary

Vol. 85/No. 31 - August 23, 2021

Armando Choy Rodríguez, a brigadier general in the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Cuba, died July 26 in Havana at age 87. Anyone who had the chance to meet Choy was struck by his pride and satisfaction of having devoted his…


The fight to end oppression of Indigenous peoples in Canada

Vol. 85/No. 31 - August 23, 2021
March in Chemainus, British Columbia, Aug. 2 after discovery of unmarked graves of Indigenous children at former residential schools. Joining fight for liberation of Indigenous peoples is “part of working-class fight for power,” Communist League leader Stan Peters told July SWP international conference in Ohio.

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — A series of classes were part of the Socialist Workers Party International Conference in Springfield, Ohio, July 22-24, most expanding on the central political reports at the gathering. (See article in the Aug. 16 Militant, available at…