SWP files for ballot in Minnesota, plans campaigning across the US

Vol. 86/No. 23 - June 13, 2022
Minnesota’s Faribault Daily News reporter Kristine Goodrich interviews SWP candidates Gabrielle Prosser and Kevin Dwire while they campaign in Walmart parking lot there May 26.

MINNEAPOLIS — During two weeks of daily campaigning through May 31, supporters of the Socialist Workers Party’s ticket of Gabrielle Prosser for governor and Kevin Dwire for lieutenant governor collected 2,566 signatures — well over the state’s requirement of 2,000…


Newark nurses strike over safety, staffing levels

Vol. 86/No. 23 - June 13, 2022
Striking New Jersey nurses rally May 24. Margarita Prodon, with sign, explained conditions nurses face.

NEWARK, N.J. — The 350 nurses and technicians at St. Michael’s Medical Center here, members of JNESO Council 1 International Union of Operating Engineers, struck May 23 for a decent contract. “During negotiations, management has demonstrated a lack of willingness…


Arson at Wyoming family planning clinic is attack on women’s rights

Vol. 86/No. 23 - June 13, 2022

An arsonist damaged a family planning and women’s health center under construction in Casper, Wyoming, May 25. Wellspring Health Access, a national health care nonprofit that provides reproductive care in rural areas, plans to offer a range of services, including…


Cuban farmers celebrate 1959 agrarian reform, revolution

Vol. 86/No. 23 - June 13, 2022

From very early in the morning farmers in Cuba held political events and festivities around the island to celebrate the 63rd anniversary of the First Agrarian Reform law. The May 17, 1959, act, more than any other, defined the character…


US gov’t, Seoul announce new provocations against NKorea

Vol. 86/No. 23 - June 13, 2022

President Joseph Biden embarked on his first visit to South Korea May 20-22, where he and newly elected South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol announced plans to expand provocative joint war games and to push increased economic sanctions against North…




Protests demand ‘End US economic war against Cuba!’

Vol. 86/No. 23 - June 13, 2022

Over 100 people rallied at the Miami International Airport, above, May 29, after participating in a 42-car caravan through the city demanding an end to the U.S. economic war against Cuba and for lifting Washington’s restrictions on travel to the…


Workers need our own party, a labor party!

Vol. 86/No. 23 - June 13, 2022

Without a political party of our own, working people lack an essential instrument we need to defend our class interests on all the questions we face — from our struggles with the bosses to solidarity with Ukrainian toilers against Moscow’s…


Apple workers in Shanghai protest brutal lockdown

Vol. 86/No. 23 - June 13, 2022

Fed up with strict COVID-19 lockdown restrictions imposed in Shanghai by the Chinese rulers over the past two months, workers at Quanta, a Taiwanese-owned plant that makes MacBook laptops, have organized protests against the conditions they face. This has included…