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Calif. nurses protest understaffing
Vol. 88/No. 15 - April 15, 2024SAN 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, 2024Bunker 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, 2024MINNEAPOLIS — 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, 2024LEEDS, 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, 2024LONDON — 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…
Campaign to expand reach of ‘Militant,’ books, fund March 9-May 7 (week 3)
Vol. 88/No. 15 - April 15, 2024SWP kicks off ballot drive in New Jersey
Vol. 88/No. 14 - April 8, 2024UNION 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, 2024SYDNEY — 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…