Rachele Fruit, SWP presidential candidate, is interviewed by Fox News at Sept. 7 New York Labor Day march. She spoke with workers there, at Harlem Book Fair and at a public meeting.

‘Working class needs to take political power’

Rachele Fruit: ‘We need to build a party of labor’ BY SARA LOBMAN NEW YORK — “The fight over which class rules is the central question facing working people everywhere in the world,” Rachele Fruit told the 48 people at…

Union battles today deserve support from all workers

Tens of thousands of dockworkers, postal workers and machinists are fighting for union contracts that include wage increases to keep up with inflation, livable work schedules and safety on the job. In many cases they are up against not only…

Richter: ‘Our struggles begin with solidarity’

ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY, Md. — “The fight to defend our class starts with building solidarity,” Dennis Richter, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. vice president, told striking Teamster member Jacinta Gamble as they walked the picket line in front of…

Anniversary of Oct. 7 pogrom: Fight against Jew-hatred key

Hostage Farhan al-Qadi, a Bedouin citizen of Israel, attended to by a relative and doctor after his rescue by Israeli soldiers. Hamas thugs shot him in the leg when he refused to take them to where Jews were. “Muslims, Jews, Bedouins are together, one family, one people,” he said.

The one-year anniversary of Hamas’ Oct. 7 pogrom in Israel — the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust — is less than a month away. It’s a stark reminder of the deadly character of Nazi-like Jew-hatred in the imperialist…

Rail workers in US take on unsafe conditions, anti-family schedules

Members of Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way protest in 2022 in Nebraska. Rail workers look to continue fight for bigger crews, livable work schedules, more training for new hires.

LINCOLN, Neb. — Under the notorious anti-union Railway Labor Act, when rail union contracts near expiration, workers are barred from taking strike action and face years of federal National Mediation Board-controlled negotiations, reviews by Presidential Emergency Boards, various “cooling off”…

Join fight against Florida prison ban on the ‘Militant’

Letters keep going to the Florida Department of Corrections Literature Review Committee urging it to overturn the ban imposed by Jackson Correctional Institution authorities in Malone on Militant issue no. 17 at the end of April. This impoundment violates prisoners’…

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Democrats attack Trump, deal blows to constitutional freedoms

Above, 18 SWP and Teamsters leaders, framed up for opposition to U.S. rulers’ drive to enter World War II, on way to federal prison Dec. 31, 1943. Inset, pamphlet used in defense campaign. One law used to unleash FBI against the party was Foreign Agents Registration Act, being used by the Justice Department today.

  Central to the Democrats’ efforts to hold onto the White House in 2024 are relentless attacks against their main opponent, Donald Trump, including a four-part legal offensive that threatens constitutional rights crucial for working people. They’re determined to get…

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.