Rail union paper says Norfolk Southern bosses’ profit drive is responsible for disaster in East Palestine, Ohio. Fight put up by area residents, rail unionists shows potential for them to work together to take control of working conditions on the railroad, living conditions in that region.

Residents demand the truth about East Palestine disaster

Rail union speaks out, blames profit drive of bosses

Working people in East Palestine, Ohio, continue to fight to get the truth from the rail bosses and Environmental Protection Agency representatives who claim everything is safe now after the Feb. 3 Norfolk Southern derailment and release of highly toxic…


Back Ukraine independence! Moscow out of Ukraine now!

Hit with a new wave of cruise missile strikes on Kyiv and aerial attacks on other cities, working people in Ukraine deepened their determination to resist Moscow’s assaults on their independence. At home, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime is tightening…


Defend political freedoms under assault from the Democrats, FBI

FBI agents raid Socialist Workers Party Minneapolis headquarters, June 1941, opening move in rulers’ assault on SWP’s opposition to imperialist war. Prosecutors won conviction of party, Teamsters leaders on frame-up charge of “conspiracy to advocate overthrow of government.”

Since before the 2016 election, Democrats and their backers in the middle-class left have gone after Donald Trump and his supporters, using their main political police agency, the FBI, and the capitalist court system to attack them, especially the working…



What are stakes for working people in US banking crisis?

Government officials and the owners of the country’s largest banks keep insisting the U.S. banking system has been stabilized and is under control. Is that true? The answer is no, as the deepening crisis of their capitalist system continues to…


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‘Alone we will be defeated, together we can win’

Meeting in Havana discusses working-class course of the Socialist Workers Party
April 25 presentation in Havana discussed Pathfinder Press book The Low Point of Labor Resistance Is Behind Us: The Socialist Workers Party Looks Forward. Bottom, from left, Mary-Alice Waters, Socialist Workers Party; and Noemí Rabaza, Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples.

HAVANA — Amid preparations by working people across Cuba to celebrate May 1, International Workers Day, a special event was held here to discuss a new book by Pathfinder Press, The Low Point of Labor Resistance Is Behind Us: The…



Socialist Workers Party leadership sets course ahead

Adopts course to build union solidarity • defend constitutional freedoms • fight for wages, hours, job conditions that prevent families in working class from being torn apart • defend Cuba’s socialist revolution and its example in the U.S. and world over
International Educational Conference in Oberlin, Ohio, June 8-10, brought together over 330 people for reports, discussion on communist program, continuity and activities. Right, SWP literature table during conference.
OBERLIN, Ohio — “The sweeping indictment of Donald Trump under the Espionage Act by President Joseph…






Cuba and Chernobyl

This Cuban documentary produced in 2006 tells the story of the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe in Ukraine and Cuba’s exemplary internationalist medical program that treated more than 25,000 victims.