As we go to press:

Vol. 88/No. 21 - May 27, 2024

Washington state officials have informed the Socialist Workers Party that Henry Dennison, its candidate for U.S. Senate, is on the ballot!


SWP campaign expands reach of ‘Militant,’ Pathfinder books

Vol. 88/No. 21 - May 27, 2024
“Immigrant workers in the U.S. work hard, one day we’ll go on strike across the country,” Norma Ribas, right, told Alyson Kennedy, SWP candidate for U.S. Senate from Texas, May 13.

Rachele Fruit, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. president, is winning a growing hearing in cities across the U.S. and Canada for the party’s call for workers to break with all the capitalist rulers’ parties and build a labor party…


As Moscow hits Kharkiv region, soldiers’ deaths spur protests

Vol. 88/No. 21 - May 27, 2024
“Solo protest” in Moscow Jan. 6, says, “Freedom for mobilized. Bring back husbands, fathers, sons!” The Way Home group, families of Russian conscripts, denounced Putin’s May 9 rally, “Did our ancestors truly sacrifice their lives so we would be drawn into this [Ukraine] war?”

In an escalation of Vladimir Putin’s murderous war against the people of Ukraine, Moscow’s tanks attacked across Ukraine’s northeastern border May 10 for the first time since the early weeks of its invasion in 2022. Ukrainian reserves are engaged in…


Judge makes a mockery of the Constitution in NY Trump trial

Vol. 88/No. 21 - May 27, 2024

The right to a fair trial and free speech were dealt serious blows by Judge Juan Merchan as part of the prosecution of presidential candidate Donald Trump initiated by New York City District Attorney Alvin Bragg, a Democrat. Bragg ran…




Younger workers are hit hard by inflation, crisis of capitalism

Vol. 88/No. 21 - May 27, 2024

Young workers are being ravaged by the continuing scourge of inflation marking today’s capitalist economic and social crisis. The average credit card debt for 22- to 24-year-olds has ballooned to a record high of $2,834 per youth at the end…


Railroad, port workers in Canada vote to go on strike

Vol. 88/No. 20 - May 20, 2024
Canadian National Railway workers picket rail station in Capreol, Ontario, on Nov. 20, 2019, during Teamsters Canada Rail Conference nationwide eight-day strike for safety.

MONTREAL — Some 9,300 freight workers at Canadian Pacific Kansas City and Canadian National — Canada’s largest railways — and over 1,200 Montreal port workers have voted by big majorities to strike for better contracts. The rail workers are members…


‘Workers need our own party to fight to take political power’

Vol. 88/No. 20 - May 20, 2024
Rachele Fruit, right, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. president, campaigns at Little Haiti Book Festival in Miami May 5. She spoke to crowd of 300, with translation into Creole.

Break with the capitalist parties, build a labor party MIAMI — The culmination of Rachele Fruit’s campaign stop here was a public meeting at the Socialist Workers campaign headquarters here on May 5. To begin with, you have to start…