SWP points road forward as capitalist crisis deepens

Mamdani’s ‘municipal socialism’ no advance
Vol. 89/No. 42 - November 24, 2025
David Rosenfeld, left, SWP 2026 candidate for U.S. Senate from Illinois and SMART-TD member, talks with striking Teamsters member Linne Boyd at Chicago Labor Day march.

Socialist Workers Party: ‘Workers need to take political power!’ The 2025 elections took place with workers having faced declining living standards under both Democratic and Republican administrations for years. At the same time, trade conflicts intensify and the threat of…



Washington: Hands off Venezuela and Cuba!

Vol. 89/No. 42 - November 24, 2025
U.S. aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford, world’s largest warship, entered Caribbean Nov. 11. Washington is deploying force of warboats, bombers, troops to assert U.S. rulers’ power.

The U.S. War Department announced Nov. 10 its forces attacked and sank two more boats, killing six people, off the shore of Venezuela, claiming they are targeting “narco-terrorists.” This brings the total to 76 people killed in 19 deadly attacks.…


Workers at Safeway’s N. Calif. bread plant win new contract

Vol. 89/No. 42 - November 24, 2025
Workers at the Safeway bread plant in Richmond, California, members of BCTGM Local 125, rally Oct. 5, part of fight for a new contract with a wage raise. Unionists were victorious.

RICHMOND, Calif. — Public protests paid off for Safeway bread plant workers here, who won a new contract 14 months after their old one expired. The workers won wage gains of $4.95 an hour over four years, and the fight…


‘Gazans want to live; not die for Hamas’

Vol. 89/No. 42 - November 24, 2025

While Hamas is using the U.S.-imposed ceasefire to shore up its brutal dictatorship in Gaza, the White House is keeping up pressure on Israel, demanding it refrain from any major attack on the Tehran-backed group whose founding covenant calls for…


Houston convention center unionists win 25% wage hike

Vol. 89/No. 42 - November 24, 2025

FORT WORTH, Texas — On the heels of the victory of the 40-day strike by members of UNITE HERE Local 23 at the Hilton hotel in Houston, some 100 food service workers at the nearby George R. Brown Convention Center…


Teamsters hold vigil, demand gov’t action after deadly UPS plane crash

Vol. 89/No. 42 - November 24, 2025
Nov. 6 vigil at Teamsters Local 89 union hall in Louisville for victims of UPS plane crash two days before. An engine came off 34-year-old cargo plane and it smashed into nearby worksites.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — United Parcel Service Flight 2976 crashed almost immediately after takeoff at the Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport Nov. 4, killing at least 14 people, mostly area workers, injuring many more and destroying or damaging workplaces in the…


Doctors strike Allina over clinic closures, workloads, unpaid work

Vol. 89/No. 42 - November 24, 2025

MINNEAPOLIS — “Health care is a human right!” and “Doctors on the outside? Trouble on the inside,” were chanted by hundreds of members of the Doctors Council, an affiliate of the Service Employees International Union, during a one-day strike against…


Murderous catastrophe in Darfur as Islamist rebels slaughter thousands

Vol. 89/No. 42 - November 24, 2025
Thousands of people escape into refugee camp in Tawila, Sudan, Oct. 31. They were fleeing massacre by Rapid Support Forces, formerly Janjaweed militias, in el-Fasher in Darfur region.

As a two-and-a-half-year bloody civil war ravages the toilers in Sudan, the reactionary Rapid Support Forces seized el-Fasher, the largest city in the Darfur region, Oct. 26, unleashing a massacre against the indigenous black population. Two days later, RSF paramilitary…


Help SWP go over the top in Party-Building Fund

Vol. 89/No. 42 - November 24, 2025

As we enter the final week to raise $140,000 for the Socialist Workers Party-Building Fund, party branches report success in winning new contributors who are interested in supporting the SWP’s work. Marklyn Wilson, an SWP member from Atlanta, reports that…