Calif. nurses protest understaffing

Vol. 88/No. 15 - April 15, 2024

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Hundreds of nurses and supporters picketed outside the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center here April 2, the first day of a three-day strike by over 3,000 members of the Registered Nurses Professional Association at three county…


Student newspaper ‘Corsair’ interviews Rachele Fruit

Vol. 88/No. 15 - April 15, 2024
Corsair reporter Bunker King asked Fruit why the SWP has so many books. “The books contain our history, the history of the working class, that we need to learn from,” she explained.

Bunker King goes to Santa Monica College and is an editor at the Corsair, the student newspaper. He attended the March 30 talk by Rachele Fruit, SWP candidate for president, and interviewed her afterwards. These were some of the exchanges,…


Minn. Democrats attack third party ballot rights

Vol. 88/No. 15 - April 15, 2024

MINNEAPOLIS — A judge here March 20 ruled in favor of a suit filed by the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party that will revoke the major-party status of the Legal Marijuana Now Party, the last political party, other than the Democrats and Republicans,…


Leeds students take stand against Jew-hatred in UK

Vol. 88/No. 15 - April 15, 2024

LEEDS, England — “Jewish students have had enough,” Emma Levy, president of the Jewish Society at the University of Leeds, told several hundred students at a “Stand Against Antisemitism” vigil here March 1. It was called in response to mounting…


Farmers in UK protest rising production costs

Vol. 88/No. 15 - April 15, 2024
Farmers protest government policies March 25 in London.

LONDON — With signs reading “Stop killing farming” and “No farmers, no food, no future,” up to 100 tractors descended on Parliament Square here March 25. Organized by the recently established Fairness for Farmers of Kent, the protest was the…



SWP kicks off ballot drive in New Jersey

Vol. 88/No. 14 - April 8, 2024

UNION CITY, N.J. — The Socialist Workers Party campaign will kick off a statewide effort April 1 to put the party’s presidential candidate Rachele Fruit on the New Jersey ballot, along with her running mate, vice presidential candidate Margaret Trowe.…


Union protests worker’s death in Australian gold mine

Vol. 88/No. 14 - April 8, 2024

SYDNEY — A roof collapse at the Ballarat Gold Mine, owned by Victory Minerals, in central Victoria March 13 killed miner Kurt Hourigan and critically injured 21-year-old Connor Smith. Hourigan lived in Bruthen, a small town more than five hours…