Nurse Layla Bashir, left, speaks with Rachele Fruit, SWP candidate for president, signed to put her on Minnesota ballot July 22. Democrats and Republicans have no serious answers to social crisis working people face, while SWP campaign program gets a real response.
Rachele Fruit, SWP candidate for president:

‘Break with the bosses’ parties and build a party of labor’

‘Why should I sign for the Socialist Workers Party?’ MINNEAPOLIS — “Hello! If this has anything to do with elections, I want to know what you are doing,” said Layla Bashir, waving Rachele Fruit over to her car outside a Target…


SWP gathers electors to get on ballot in Louisiana

Dennis Richter, SWP candidate for vice president, joins National Nurses United picket at University Medical Center in New Orleans July 17, part of their fight for a first contract.

BOSSIER City, La. — Supporters of Rachele Fruit, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for president, and her running mate, Dennis Richter, campaigned from one end of Louisiana to the other July 16-23. Richter joined the campaign volunteers to bring what…


US rulers push to reestablish stability in two party setup

Presidential candidate Donald Trump with running mate J.D. Vance at Republican National Convention July 15. Trump demagogically pitches Republican campaign to “forgotten” working people.

For the first time in years, the capitalist rulers in the U.S. are making progress in reestablishing a measure of stability in the decades-old two-party political system. This doesn’t mean they have any answers to the economic and social crisis…





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1934 Minneapolis Teamsters strikes: Lessons for workers today

Teamsters Local 574 leader announces May 1934 Minneapolis truck drivers strike has ended in victory. After bosses reneged on the contract, workers struck again in mid-July and won.

July marks the 90th anniversary of the 1934 Teamsters strikes in Minneapolis that won union recognition for General Drivers Local 574 and paved the way for successful union battles throughout that city and region. The lessons of this fight, led…







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.