Kevin Dwire, left, SWP candidate for U.S. Senate, and bakery worker Tyler Hurtgen campaigning at 90th anniversary celebration of 1934 Minneapolis Teamster strikes. Rafael Espinoza, a union leader during 2001 UFCW organizing drive at Dakota Premium Foods in St. Paul, signs petition to put Rachele Fruit, the party’s presidential candidate, on the ballot in Minnesota.
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‘The working class needs its own party, a party of labor’

Workers across Minnesota sign to put SWP on ballot MINNEAPOLIS — Thousands of workers in Minnesota are learning about the Socialist Workers Party and its candidates, Rachele Fruit for U.S. president and Dennis Richter for vice president, as the party…

US rulers stabilize their two parties, SWP wins a hearing

Striking nurses picket Santa Clara County hospital in Gilroy, California, April 3. More workers are willing to fight today, leading to interest in the Socialist Workers Party 2024 campaign.

In recent weeks the U.S. rulers have succeeded in reestablishing some stability in their two-capitalist-party political setup, with both Democrats and Republicans uniting behind their respective candidates, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. They’re each setting out to rally interest and…

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Black sailors exonerated 80 years after port disaster

Loading ammunition at Port Chicago, California, naval depot. In October 1944, 50 Black enlisted men were court-martialed for “mutiny” for refusing to return to jobs after explosion there killed 320 people. Inset, Dec. 2, 1944, Militant editorial denouncing the verdict.

OAKLAND, Calif. — On July 17 Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro announced the exoneration of 50 Black sailors who had been tried for mutiny and jailed during World War II. The announcement came on the 80th anniversary of a huge…

Israelis face threat of wider war by Tehran and Hezbollah

Sign held by Hamas supporter at Washington protest against Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu speaking to Congress July 24, shows “anti-Zionism” is simply Jew-hatred in the Nazi tradition.

Hezbollah’s missile attack on Majdal Shams, in the Israeli-ruled Golan Heights, killed 12 Druze Arab boys and girls and wounded 16 more at a soccer field July 27. The barbaric attack by the Tehran-backed group has increased the threat of…

Congress discusses upgrading the draft and conscription of women

Exhausted U.S. troops in Vietnam in 1967. Washington’s 15-year war ended as opposition grew in the working class and among GIs, demonstrations spread. Protests also targeted the draft.

Since the watershed in world politics marked by Moscow’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine and the explosion of Jew-hatred on the heels of the Oct. 7 Tehran-backed Hamas pogrom that killed over 1,200 people, mostly Jews, in Israel, capitalist governments worldwide…

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It has been three months since prison authorities at Jackson Correctional Institution in Malone, Florida, banned Militant issue no. 17. The Militant promptly appealed the ban and since then dozens of letters have been sent to the Florida Department of…

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Freedom Convoy trials are attack on rights in Canada

Truckers protest in Ottawa, Canada’s capital, Feb. 8, 2022, calling for an end to government pandemic restrictions threatening their livelihoods. Trudeau government put Freedom Convoy leaders on trial despite court ruling its use of the anti-labor Emergencies Act was illegal.

MONTREAL — Despite a strong ruling by Federal Court Justice Richard Mosley earlier this year saying Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government invoking the draconian Emergencies Act to crush a truckers’ protest in 2022 was unconstitutional and illegal, the trials of…

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.