Lenin’s Final Fight: Speeches and Writings 1922-23, one of the Books of the Month for April, helps explain why the Socialist Workers Party supports Ukrainian independence against Moscow’s invasion. Taken from the introduction, the excerpt describes how V.I. Lenin, the…
MONTREAL — The Canadian government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is responding to Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine by beefing up its military forces. The rulers demand working people “sacrifice” for the war as they step up attacks on wages, conditions…
The breadth of union support shown for striking Alabama coal miners against Warrior Met bosses at their April 6 rally shows the readiness of workers to throw support behind this fight. Inspired by the miners’ determination, more solidarity can be…
Seven weeks into Moscow’s war against independent Ukraine, the determined resistance of that country’s armed forces and its population in general — as well as demoralization wracking the Russian troops and ineptness of their officer corps — brought Russian President…
April 28, 1997 WATSONVILLE, California — A crowd of 25,000 farm workers, trade unionists, and youth marched here April 13 in support of the United Farm Workers effort to organize this state’s 20,000 strawberry pickers. The union is targeting the…
After over a month of stubborn resistance by Ukrainian forces and volunteers against Moscow’s invasion, two-thirds of Russian ground forces have withdrawn from around the capital, Kyiv, and from Chernobyl, Chernihiv, Sumy and numerous other smaller towns. Russian President Vladimir…
Mounting condemnation of Moscow’s brutality at Bucha fill the pages of the capitalist press following the release of pictures and eyewitness accounts of the massacre carried out there by Russian armed forces. The brutality reflects the disdain of Vladimir Putin…
Ohio’s Ninth District Court of Appeals unanimously upheld a 2019 jury verdict and $31 million award won by the Gibson family, owners of a fifth-generation local bakery and store in Oberlin, against a yearslong race-baiting and defamatory assault by Oberlin…
STATEN ISLAND, New York — Showing a growing desire to resist speedup, unsafe conditions, bosses’ disrespect and the need to win higher wages, workers at the massive JFK8 Amazon warehouse here voted 2,654 to 2,131 in favor of the Amazon…
“I was thinking about leasing a truck, but now I won’t because of the costs of fuel and other things,” trucker Richard Swim, 24, told Alyson Kennedy, Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor of Texas, while she was campaigning at…
