Are frenzied liberals afflicted with ‘Trump derangement syndrome’?

Vol. 82/No. 36 - October 1, 2018

As the November midterm elections loom, liberals in the Democratic Party and media, and the middle-class left, are grabbing anything to try and advance their frenetic “resistance” against the Donald Trump presidency. They are driven by fear of the workers…


Demand US rulers sign peace treaty with NKorea

SWP: Washington’s troops, weapons out now!
Vol. 82/No. 35 - September 24, 2018
Sept. 9 Pyongyang parade on 70th anniversary of Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, focused on economic development, reunification of Korea, with no display of nuclear missiles.

The Socialist Workers Party offers “unconditional solidarity with the Korean people’s struggle for withdrawal of all US troops and weaponry from the peninsula’s soil, skies and waters,” Steve Clark said in a Sept. 7 message on behalf of the SWP…


‘Workers need independence from capitalist state, parties’

Vol. 82/No. 35 - September 24, 2018

“I like to see a working person running for office,” Christina Etapa told Dan Fein, Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor of Illinois, when he knocked on her door in the Brighton Park neighborhood of Chicago Sept. 9. “All these…


Iraq protests demand gov’t provide services, end to Tehran interference

Vol. 82/No. 35 - September 24, 2018
Protesters in Basra demand jobs, electricity, water and end to Iranian intervention and meddling in Iraq. Thousands were killed fighting Islamic State, now survivors face deepening crisis.

Thousands of working people continue to join protests in Basra and across southern Iraq against the government’s failure to provide basic necessities and the deadly consequences of the Iranian rulers’ military and political influence there. The actions follow years of…



Join fight against prison censorship of ‘Militant’ in Florida, Illinois!

Vol. 82/No. 35 - September 24, 2018

The fight continues against censorship of the Militant by prison authorities in Florida and at the federal facility in Greenville, Illinois. The issues posed are important for defending political rights won in centuries of hard-fought battles and the right of workers…


Liberals disrupt Senate hearing in furor over Trump nomination

Vol. 82/No. 34 - September 17, 2018
Democratic senators and allied protesters shriek and disrupt first session of confirmation hearings for President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, September 4.

Liberal Democrats and media, and middle-class left groups seeking to bring down the administration of President Donald Trump are on a hysterical campaign to prevent his nominee for the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh, from being confirmed in Senate hearings that…



‘Advance the revolutionary mobilization of workers’

Vol. 82/No. 34 - September 17, 2018

The following statement was issued Sept. 3 by Róger Calero, Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor of New York. Ceaseless competition for markets, financial exploitation and profits among the bosses compels them to assault our wages, rights and working conditions,…


Veterans fight delays in gov’t disability benefits

Thousands die while appeals drag on and on
Vol. 82/No. 34 - September 17, 2018
Wounded war veterans who get physical therapy wait at Brook Army Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas, in 2007. Veterans Administration has denied benefits to half a million veterans.

Hundreds of thousands of veterans filing disability claim appeals wait years, and sometimes a lifetime, for the Department of Veterans Affairs to rule on their cases. One in 14 veterans dies before getting a decision — or any badly needed…