President Donald Trump used his State of the Union address to Congress Feb. 4 as a reelection rally, boasting “jobs are booming, incomes are soaring, poverty is plummeting, crime is falling, confidence is surging, and our country is thriving and…
“The Socialist Workers Party campaign presents a road forward for working-class struggle to advance the self-confidence, fighting capacities and class consciousness of working people,” Alyson Kennedy, SWP candidate for president in 2020, told the Militant. The party announced Jan. 29…
Alyson Kennedy Alyson Kennedy grew up in Indianapolis, where she was attracted to the massive battles she followed on TV against racist cops and KKK thugs across the South that tore down Jim Crow segregation, strengthening the whole working class.…
Many liberal editorial writers claimed that the Jan. 2 U.S. military operation that killed Gen. Qassem Soleimani would cause people to unite behind the regimes in Iran and Iraq in outrage. Soleimani commanded the Iranian rulers’ Quds Force, the wing…
HAYDEN, Ariz. — Workers on strike against copper giant Asarco are winning solidarity in their hard-fought four-month-long battle against the company’s drive to impose steep concessions and bust their unions. “We’re doing this for the next generation, for those who…
A victory has been won in the fight to reverse impoundments of the Militant from subscriber Kevin “Rashid” Johnson, who is incarcerated at the Pendleton Correctional Facility in Indiana. “I am writing on behalf of the Indiana Department of Correction…
Supporters of the Cuban Revolution are getting out the word about the 15th May Day Brigade to Cuba, April 27 to May 10, and they’re finding interest. “Most of what I had heard about Cuba was negative,” Brandon Freer, a…
The Socialist Workers Party 2020 presidential ticket will be announced shortly and a slate of candidates across the country is advancing a program for working people to defend their jobs, income and safety and fight in the interests of all…
TUCSON, Ariz. — “We stand before you 100 days into our strike fighting against corporate greed and social injustice,” Alex Terrazas, a worker at Asarco’s Mission copper mine and president of United Steelworkers Local 937, told the crowd at the…
President Donald Trump is campaigning hard for reelection, saying his administration has created more jobs and higher wages and that his trade policy and moves to grow the military — and his willingness to use it — mean U.S. workers…
