Democrats, FBI attack against Trump is threat to working class

Vol. 86/No. 32 - September 5, 2022
Front page of Minneapolis paper, June, 1941, reports on FBI raid on SWP office, attacks on Teamster union, part of Roosevelt administration drive for intervention into second world war.

The Aug. 8 FBI armed raid on Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate is the latest move by the President Joseph Biden administration, fellow Democrats and a coterie of Never-Trump Republicans in their over-six-year witch hunt — and is one of the…




Raid on ex-President Trump is attack on constitutional rights

Sharp shift in political crisis of capitalist rulers
Vol. 86/No. 31 - August 22, 2022
Armed Secret Service agents during FBI raid on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property in Palm Beach, Florida, Aug. 8. Raid, Democrats’ witch hunt against Trump, are a threat to constitutional protections against the bosses’ state, rights working people need.

In a sweeping attack on constitutional rights, the Joe Biden administration ordered a pre-dawn raid on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, carried out by 30 or more heavily armed FBI and Secret Service agents. During the nine-hour…


‘You’re on the ballot!’ SWP is on in Pennsylvania

Vol. 86/No. 31 - August 22, 2022
Chris Hoeppner, SWP candidate for U.S. Congress in Pennsylvania’s 3rd District, left, turns in nominating petitions July 27. Party prepared for fight after state official changed requirements. “You’re on the ballot! And good luck!” SWP attorney Larry Otter, right, told Hoeppner Aug. 9.

PHILADELPHIA — “You’re on the ballot! And good luck!” Larry Otter, the Socialist Workers Party’s lawyer in Pennsylvania, told Chris Hoeppner, the SWP candidate for U.S. Congress from the 3rd District, and the Militant Aug. 9. “Despite moves by state…


Defend Ukraine independence! Protest, demand Moscow get out

Vol. 86/No. 31 - August 22, 2022
Wall of Sorrow, above, is Moscow monument unveiled in 2017 to remember victims of Stalinist terror. Action against Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine there July 24, marking fifth month of war, was halted by arrests of protesters arriving with flowers, unfurling signs. Pro-regime provocateurs backed cops and taunted protesters. Inset, sign says, “No to war in Ukraine.”

Nearly six months after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a war to snuff out Ukraine’s independence and subjugate its people, Moscow’s offensive has largely stalled in the face of resolute Ukrainian resistance. Despite this, the Kremlin continues to unleash murderous…


Back Warrior Met strikers! Demand $13.3 million fine be thrown out!

Vol. 86/No. 31 - August 22, 2022
Miners picket Warrior Met in Brookwood, Alabama, in 2021. NLRB ruling, huge fine “is a slap in the face to every worker who stands up to their boss,” said UMWA President Cecil Roberts.

BROOKWOOD, Ala. — In a calculated attack on workers’ right to strike, the National Labor Relations Board Region 10 on Aug. 2 ordered the United Mine Workers of America to pay $13.3 million to Brookwood-based Warrior Met Coal, where hundreds…




Support Ukraine independence! Russian troops get out now!

Vol. 86/No. 30 - August 15, 2022
“My neighbors fully support me,” Dmitry Skurikhin, inset, says. Roof of his shop in northwest Russia, July 19, is painted in Ukrainian colors. Under slogan, “Peace to Ukraine, freedom for Russia!” are names of “towns, cities of Ukraine suffering” from Russian military attacks. Police charged him several times, but he and his signs remain.

It is now more than five months since Russian President Vladimir Putin sent tens of thousands of troops storming into Ukraine to overthrow the elected government, seize the country and obliterate Ukraine as a nation. Ukrainian forces have resisted courageously…