Capitalist rulers attack Ukraine unions, seize offices

Vol. 88/No. 3 - January 22, 2024

Ukraine’s capitalist rulers, with the urging of their imperialist backers in Washington, are using wartime conditions and claims they’re advancing “de-Sovietization” to attack the union movement and weaken its ability to fight to protect workers’ interests. This includes moves to…


Join SWP campaigning in the working class!

Vol. 88/No. 3 - January 22, 2024

The Socialist Workers Party candidates and their supporters invite you to join in taking the party’s revolutionary program to working people on their doorsteps, on strike picket lines, and at social protest actions. Since the Tehran-backed Hamas massacre of Jews…



State prisons plan use of nitrogen to carry out death penalty

Vol. 88/No. 3 - January 22, 2024

LINCOLN, Neb. — Nebraska would become the fourth state in the U.S. where prisoners subject to the death penalty would be suffocated to death by forcing them to breathe pure nitrogen gas under a bill introduced here by State Sen.…




Back battle for Ukraine national independence

Vol. 88/No. 2 - January 15, 2024

President Vladimir Putin’s regime in Moscow has stepped up its murderous rain of airstrikes against heavily populated areas of Ukraine. But working people there are determined to defeat his invasion and defend their independence. In recent months hundreds have protested…


Venezuela claims on Guyana region threaten new conflict

Vol. 88/No. 2 - January 15, 2024
Map shows Guyana territory Venezuelan government claims. Region is rich in minerals, large offshore oil reserves. Territorial dispute has long been used by Venezuelan politicians to rally nationalist support. Broader moves in region seek to blunt chance of wider conflict, war.

A territorial dispute between the governments of Venezuela and Guyana dating back to 1811 has come back to the fore, putting a spotlight on the danger of military conflict amid the growing instability of the capitalist world order. At issue…


Celebrate life of Helen Ayres

Vol. 88/No. 2 - January 15, 2024

Helen Ayres, a long-time member and supporter of the Communist League in New Zealand, died in Auckland Dec. 25 at 86. Ayres was drawn into political activity as a trade unionist and campaigner for women’s rights in the mid-1970s after…


Opponents of Jew-hatred rally, outnumber pro-Hamas protest

Vol. 88/No. 2 - January 15, 2024

ISSAQUAH, Wash. — Supporters of Israel’s right to exist as a refuge for Jews here organized a counterprotest against the Issaquah Students League, a chapter of a group called the Revolutionary Student Union. It led a march and rally at…