SWP builds support for rail union fights, seeks ballot in Philadelphia

Vol. 86/No. 26 - July 18, 2022
SWP U.S. Senate candidate Osborne Hart, right, talks with James Shabazz in Philadelphia June 24 at start of campaign to get 2,000 signatures to place Chris Hoeppner on ballot for Congress.

Socialist Workers Party members are discussing the roots of the capitalist crises working people face today and what we can do together to defend ourselves. As they present the party’s program widely among workers and farmers they’re getting a good…



CN Rail signal workers strike ends, dispute goes to arbitration

Vol. 86/No. 26 - July 18, 2022

MONTREAL — After a lively two-week strike, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers officials decided July 5 to send the fight by some 750 Canadian National Railway signal and communications workers for higher wages and important changes in scheduling to binding…


Defend the working class, our families, women’s rights

Vol. 86/No. 25 - July 11, 2022
Sara Lobman, SWP candidate for U.S. Senate from New York, discusses with Bram Lefevete at New York action May 14 after draft Roe v. Wade decision was “leaked” to the press.

This statement by Alyson Kennedy, Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor of Texas and the party’s 2020 presidential candidate, was released June 25. The Socialist Workers Party plans to redouble our efforts — our election campaigns, expanding the reach of…


Ukrainian resistance continues in occupied Kherson

Vol. 86/No. 25 - July 11, 2022

Kherson, a Ukrainian port on the Black Sea, was the first major city to fall to Russian forces when they invaded Ukraine Feb. 24. It lies near the Crimean Peninsula, which was seized by Moscow in 2014. “In the first…


Calif. nurses fight against inadequate supplies, staffing

Vol. 86/No. 25 - July 11, 2022
“We need adequate supplies and more staffing,” said nurse Emely Collado at Seton Medical Center in Daly City, California, during two-day strike called by California Nurses Association.

DALY CITY, Calif. — Nurses and other workers at the Seton Medical Center here led a successful fight two years ago to keep the hospital from closing, something that would have created a health care desert in this mostly working-class…


Back fight for Puerto Rico independence!

Vol. 86/No. 25 - July 11, 2022

Statement by Sara Lobman for the Socialist Workers Party to the hearing of the U.N. Special Committee on Decolonization of Puerto Rico, June 20, 2022. Distinguished chairperson and committee members: My name is Sara Lobman. I am the Socialist Workers…


Nurses picket across Minnesota fighting for more staff, pay

Vol. 86/No. 25 - July 11, 2022

HASTINGS, Minn. — Dozens of nurses and their supporters gathered outside the Allina Regina Hospital here June 21 in an informational picket. The central issue is management hiring more nurses to allow for better care and an end to schedules…


US rulers jack up interest rates, deepen crisis for workers, farmers

Vol. 86/No. 25 - July 11, 2022
Protests have erupted worldwide fighting soaring inflation. Above, hospital nurses and medical workers protest in Harare, Zimbabwe, June 21. They rejected government pay offer of 100%, saying it didn’t come close to inflation rate of 130% as food costs, fuel prices are exploding.

Facing a spreading economic crisis and soaring inflation, especially in things workers need, the U.S. rulers have launched steps that will fuel a deeper downturn in production and jobs. In a model of understatement, Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell told…