Oklahoma carries out execution, sets 24 more over next two years

Vol. 86/No. 34 - September 19, 2022
Protest against execution of James Coddington and the death penalty Aug. 25 in front of Oklahoma City mansion of Gov. Kevin Stitt, who threw out recommendation of clemency.

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt ordered prison authorities to carry out the execution of death row prisoner James Coddington at the state penitentiary in McAlester Aug. 25. He did so after denying an Aug. 3 recommendation of clemency from the state…


British Columbia public workers fight for wage raise

Vol. 86/No. 34 - September 19, 2022

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — The British Columbia General Employees’ Union, representing some 33,000 public sector workers, voted 95% for strike action to fight for cost-of-living protection against soaring prices. On Aug. 15, 950 workers walked off the job at the…


Women’s conference debates road forward, Democratic Party

Vol. 86/No. 34 - September 19, 2022

HOUSTON — The deepening economic attacks on working people and how to win people to the fight for women’s emancipation were discussed by hundreds from across the country participating in a national Women’s Convention here Aug. 12-14. The event was…


Build solidarity with workers’ struggles!

Vol. 86/No. 34 - September 19, 2022

Statement issued Sept. 6 by Joanne Kuniansky, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Congress from New Jersey. Thousands of workers came together in Labor Day actions yesterday. Many featured workers involved in strike battles seeking to push back dangerous working…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 86/No. 34 - September 19, 2022

September 22, 1997 The statement below was issued by Janet Post, Socialist Workers candidate for Mayor of Miami, and Rollande Girard, candidate for Miami Commissioner, District 1. The Socialist Workers candidates condemn the September 4 bombings of three hotels and…


‘Conspiracy’ frame-up in Michigan is blow to rights

Vol. 86/No. 33 - September 12, 2022

The retrial of two men ensnared by FBI agents in an alleged “plot” to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer ended in their conviction Aug. 23 on frame-up conspiracy charges. The scheme never came close to being acted on. The government…


Protests demand: ‘End US embargo against Cuba!’

Vol. 86/No. 33 - September 12, 2022
March against Washington’s embargo of Cuba, Aug. 27, 2022, in East Harlem, New York. U.S. rulers’ decades of economic aggression are aimed at strangling the socialist revolution in Cuba.

NEW YORK — Some 80 people participated in a spirited march and rally in East Harlem Aug. 27, protesting the over 60-year U.S. embargo of Cuba. The rally met at the First Spanish Methodist Church, known as the People’s Church,…



Support Ukraine independence! Demand Russian troops out now!

Vol. 86/No. 33 - September 12, 2022
Despite mass arrests against anti-war demonstrations across Russia, protests continue. In recent public action in square in Ufa, in the Volga region, Elmira Rahmatullina holds sign in Ukrainian colors of blue and yellow, saying, “Give them peace, and us, freedom of speech.”

Moscow’s murderous assault on Ukraine, aimed at destroying the country as an independent nation, annexing large hunks of it, especially its resources and productive capacity, and destroying the government in its capital, Kyiv, and other key cities, like Kharkiv, has…


Inflation, production slowdown hit workers, families in Europe

Vol. 86/No. 33 - September 12, 2022
Dockworkers in Verdi union protest in Hamburg, Germany, June 10, demand wage increase. Capitalist rulers in Europe call for “sacrifice” by working people as prices skyrocket.

The capitalist economic crisis unfolding today — rising prices combined with a downturn in manufacturing production — is heightening conflicts among rival powers that comprise the European Union and sharpening the strains tearing at the bloc of 27 governments. The…