1969 ‘Cordobazo’ in Argentina posed working class taking power

Vol. 86/No. 30 - August 15, 2022
Workers’ uprising in Córdoba, Argentina, May 1969. Agustín Tosco, left in front, a leader of the “Cordobazo,” was a class-struggle-minded worker and secretary of energy workers union Luz y Fuerza (Light and Power). What was missing was a revolutionary party and leadership.

This special feature is from The Leninist Strategy of Party Building: The Debate on Guerrilla Warfare in Latin America by Joseph Hansen, a leader of the Socialist Workers Party, cited in last week’s article, “Argentine military officer found guilty for…


Support Ukraine independence! Russian troops get out now!

Vol. 86/No. 30 - August 15, 2022

It is now more than five months since Russian President Vladimir Putin sent tens of thousands of troops storming into Ukraine to overthrow the elected government, seize the country and obliterate Ukraine as a nation. Ukrainian forces have resisted courageously…


SWP fights for right to be on the ballot in Pennsylvania

Vol. 86/No. 30 - August 15, 2022
Chris Hoeppner, SWP candidate for U.S. Congress from Philadelphia, talks with Theodore Ramsen, left, and Sedia Ali at farmers market July 16, two of the 2,422 who signed petition to put him on ballot. SWP is preparing to fight any effort by the state to deny SWP ballot status.

PHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvania state authorities are laying the groundwork to deny ballot status for Chris Hoeppner, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Congress in Philadelphia’s 3rd District. A national effort is being launched by the SWP to prepare for…


UAW strikers at Case demand better pay, conditions

Vol. 86/No. 30 - August 15, 2022

STURTEVANT, Wis. — As negotiations are set to reopen between Case New Holland bosses and the United Auto Workers, whose members struck May 2, few on the union side of the table are ready to give in. “We’re not going…



Socialist Workers Party files for 2022 ballot in Pennsylvania

Vol. 86/No. 29 - August 8, 2022
Chris Hoeppner, second from right, SWP candidate for Congress from Pennsylvania, files petitions for ballot in Harrisburg July 27. From left, campaign supporter Paul Canty; Joanne Kuniansky, SWP candidate for Congress from New Jersey; and Candace Wagner and Osborne Hart, party’s candidates for governor and U.S. Senate from Pennsylvania.

HARRISBURG, Pa. — The Socialist Workers Party in Philadelphia completed a statewide campaigning effort to get out the party’s program and win ballot status for Chris Hoeppner, the party’s candidate for Congress in Pennsylvania’s 3rd District. Campaigners collected 2,422 signatures,…



Celebrate Cuba’s socialist revolution!

Vol. 86/No. 29 - August 8, 2022

Sixty-nine years ago on July 26, Fidel Castro and 160 fellow revolutionaries carried out armed attacks on the Fulgencio Batista regime’s Moncada garrison in Santiago de Cuba and the Carlos Manuel de Céspedes garrison in Bayamo, launching the war that…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 86/No. 29 - August 8, 2022

August 11, 1997 NEW YORK — Fifty-seven workers from Mexico are being held incommunicado and under house arrest by New York City authorities and the Immigration and Naturalization Service. The immigrants, including 12 children, were taken into custody following a…


California SWP: ‘Back port truckers! For a labor party’

Vol. 86/No. 29 - August 8, 2022

LOS ANGELES — Joel Britton, Socialist Workers Party candidate for California governor, spoke about opportunities to expand the reach of the party and its program to working people at a Militant Labor Forum here July 23. Also speaking was Phil…