In Defense of the US Working Class, a new book by Mary-Alice Waters, is being released in January. It features the talk by Waters at an international conference in Havana organized by the Cuban History Institute and the Central Organization…
As part of the economic upturn in the U.S., more than 550,000 working people were homeless last year, according to the Department of Housing and Urban Development. High rents and low wages account for what would seem to be a…
I believe that the article in the Jan, 7, 2019, issue of the Militant titled “Walmart Worker Hits Bosses’ Abuses Over Intercom” did not belong in the On the Picket Line column. The article describes how a worker used the…
The Socialist Workers Party has announced plans to run candidates for more than a dozen municipal and state offices across the country in 2019, including in Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas and Washington. They will…
The following statement was issued Jan. 2 by Alyson Kennedy, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Dallas mayor. The Socialist Workers Party demands the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of U.S. troops, bombers and warships from the Middle East and Afghanistan! The…
LOS ANGELES—”Selfless, disciplined, and loving to a fault, Nan Bailey remained true to her revolutionary convictions every day of her adult life,” wrote Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, in his message to a celebration of her…
LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Unified School District is on a collision course with 34,000 teachers, as their union has set Jan. 10 as the deadline for a new contract or they will go on strike. The district has…
CHICAGO — More than 28 years after his conviction for a double murder he didn’t commit, and over eight years after the Illinois Torture Inquiry and Relief Commission ruled that Chicago cops had tortured him into making a false confession,…
Members of the Socialist Workers Party are starting the new year with a bang, organizing teams to take the party, its program and its support for working-class struggle to working people on their doorsteps. They are traveling to cities small…
President Donald Trump announced plans Dec. 19 to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria and cut by nearly half Washington’s forces in Afghanistan. The decision galvanized some in his administration, and pro-war liberal Democrats and Republicans alike, into calling for the…
