At Los Angeles Times Festival of Books April 27, Middka Vicencio, a museum worker, asked Norton Sandler, SWP candidate for California governor, “How can we bring about real change?”
Socialist Workers Party 2025 campaign

‘Either workers take power or we face growing crises, wars’

‘Best response to SWP in years’ at the Los Angeles book fair LOS ANGELES — The annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books drew thousands to the University of Southern California campus April 26-27. Sales at the Pathfinder booth, featuring…

SWP NJ ballot fight at 2,630 signatures, only 570 to go!

“Amazon workers are trying to get a union,” Jose Rentas, who had worked there, told Joanne Kuniansky, SWP candidate for New Jersey governor, as he signed petition to put her on ballot.

SOMERDALE, N.J. — “The Socialist Workers Party is in a fight to be on the ballot,” Joanne Kuniansky, SWP candidate for governor of New Jersey, told working people during two days of campaigning in the southern part of the state…

Rail workers in Canada fight gov’t-imposed new contract

Locked-out rail workers picket outside headquarters of Canadian National Railway in Montreal, Aug. 22, 2024. After 17-hour strike government ordered Teamsters members back to work.

MONTREAL — A federal government-appointed arbitrator imposed a new contract April 7 on some 6,000 train conductors, engineers, yardmasters and yard switchmen at Canadian National Railway. They’re members of the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference. Liberal Minister of Labour Steven MacKinnon…

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‘Capitalism is the root of women’s oppression today’

Catharina Tirsén presented Cosmetics, Fashion, and the Exploitation of Women at April 15 program and book-signing. Tirsén’s talk helped “me understand that capitalism is the root of women’s oppression today,” said audience member who’d bought book and begun reading it. Women’s liberation, Tirsén said, can only be won through class solidarity and struggle along road to the working class winning state power.

  ERBIL, Kurdistan Region, Iraq — “Cosmetics, Fashion, and the Exploitation of Women  helps us understand how the capitalist system that dominates the world today turns not only cosmetics but all economic and social relations into commodities,” said Catharina Tirsén…

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.