Dennis Richter, center, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. vice president, talks with truck driver Steven Lutchen outside farmers market in St. Paul, Minnesota, Aug. 4. Lutchen liked what he heard, signed petition to put Rachele Fruit and Richter on the ballot.
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‘We say the working class needs its own party, a party of labor’

Minnesota: Thousands hear the SWP campaign program MINNEAPOLIS — “No offense, but how are you guys going to change things?” Steven Lutchen, a truck driver, asked Dennis Richter, Socialist Workers Party candidate for vice president, at a Hmong Farmers Market…


Harris and Obama put their stamp on Democratic Party

Barack Obama anointed Kamala Harris Democrats’ presidential candidate. The two exemplify ascendancy in party leadership of privileged upper-middle-class and professional meritocrats.

Since the Democrats unceremoniously pushed aside incumbent President Joseph Biden as their 2024 candidate and anointed Kamala Harris to replace him, they’ve made significant progress stabilizing their party and presenting a new political image. Donald Trump has united the Republicans,…



Oppose US intervention in Venezuela

In a highly polarized election in Venezuela July 28, incumbent President Nicolás Maduro was declared the  winner by the head of the government’s National Electoral Council. The opposition and its candidate, Edmundo González Urrutia, refused to accept the ruling, claiming…




Join fight against ban on ‘Militant’ in Florida prison

More letters are needed to urge the Florida Department of Corrections Literature Review Committee to reverse the ban of Militant issue no. 17 imposed by prison authorities at Jackson Correctional Institution in Malone. It’s been over three months since this…

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What Hiroshima shows about horrors of nuclear weapons

Hamas’ Oct. 7 Jew-hating pogrom in Israel killing some 1,200 people in a single day and Moscow’s murderous invasion and war on the Ukrainian people mark a watershed in world politics. Capitalist rulers worldwide are preparing for future wars, jacking…







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.