Stewardship of land and labor falls to the working class

Vol. 85/No. 33 - September 6, 2021
Malcolm Jarrett, then SWP vice president candidate and currently SWP candidate for mayor of Pittsburgh, speaks at July 30, 2019, Allegheny County Health Department hearing, says workers need to fight for control of production to stop U.S. Steel plant poisoning workers, community.

The United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently released its sixth assessment report, provoking renewed hysteria in the capitalist media and among liberal “Green New Deal” proponents that environmental disaster confronts us all today. The report is “code red…


Presidential election in Peru reflects rising class tensions

Vol. 85/No. 32 - August 30, 2021
Hundreds wait in long lines attempting to get a COVID-19 vaccine in San Martín de Porres district in Lima, Peru, July 4. Peru has the world’s worst per capita death toll from the virus.

Pedro Castillo, Peru’s newly elected president, took office July 28 in the midst of sharp political polarization and rising class tensions fed by a deepening economic and social crisis. Castillo, the candidate of Peru Libré (Free Peru), a party on…


The fight to end oppression of Indigenous peoples in Canada

Vol. 85/No. 31 - August 23, 2021
March in Chemainus, British Columbia, Aug. 2 after discovery of unmarked graves of Indigenous children at former residential schools. Joining fight for liberation of Indigenous peoples is “part of working-class fight for power,” Communist League leader Stan Peters told July SWP international conference in Ohio.

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — A series of classes were part of the Socialist Workers Party International Conference in Springfield, Ohio, July 22-24, most expanding on the central political reports at the gathering. (See article in the Aug. 16 Militant, available at…


SWP conference: Leading the working class to take power

Vol. 85/No. 30 - August 16, 2021
Jack Barnes, SWP national secretary, speaks at conference. SWP leader Mary-Alice Waters, right. Banner captured central themes of conference presentations, classes, discussions.

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — “This is a book about the dictatorship of capital and the road to the dictatorship of the proletariat,” Socialist Workers Party National Secretary Jack Barnes said, pointing to Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers…


Cuba protests US intervention as it tackles challenges from embargo

Vol. 85/No. 29 - July 26, 2021
New York Times ran this article in Spanish and English on protests in Cuba with this image, which the paper claimed was of an anti-government protest. In fact, it is a march in Havana in support of the revolution! In the baseball cap behind the Cuban flag is Gerardo Hernández, a well-known leader of the Committees in Defense of the Revolution and one of the Cuban 5, who spent 16 years in prison in the U.S., framed up for his work helping to stop terrorist attacks on Cuba.

If you follow the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Fox News, or virtually any of the U.S. capitalist media, you saw front-page reports that Cuba was convulsed July 11 by a massive, spontaneous anti-government “uprising.” That the Cuban…


Supreme Court overturns California disclosure law

Vol. 85/No. 28 - July 19, 2021

An important victory for political rights was won July 1 when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to overturn a California regulation requiring tens of thousands of charities there to hand over lists of donors to state officials.  The decision…


Florida building collapse product of capitalist greed

Vol. 85/No. 27 - July 12, 2021
June 28 vigil for residents of Champlain Towers in Surfside, Florida, after building collapsed. “Serious degradation of the building’s structure was found three years ago,” said Anthony Dutrow, inset, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Miami mayor. “Owners were urged to get it fixed. This was never done.”

MIAMI — “There are important stakes for the working class in looking at what happened with the deadly collapse of the Champlain Towers South condominium building in Surfside and what caused it,” Anthony Dutrow, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor…


Caravans demand: ‘End US embargo against Cuba!’

Vol. 85/No. 26 - July 5, 2021
Caravan through Holguín, Cuba. Caravans and rallies protesting U.S. government’s economic war against people of Cuba took place around the world June 20, three days before U.N. voted to demand end to Washington’s embargo on Cuba.

Opponents of Washington’s decadeslong bipartisan economic war against Cuba organized caravans and rallies around the world June 20 demanding “End the U.S. embargo against Cuba! U.S. out of Guantánamo now! End U.S. travel restrictions against Cuba!” The protests were the…


Thousands protest killing of Muslim family in Canada

Vol. 85/No. 25 - June 28, 2021
“We stand with our Muslim neighbors,” Anne Beattie-Stokes said at June 11 London, Ontario, protest against the killing of Afzaal family members, originally from Pakistan. Killer wearing swastika drove into them June 6.

MONTREAL — Less than a week after the killing of four members of Salman and Madiha Afzaal’s family in London, Ontario, June 6, thousands of people in that city of some 400,000 joined actions to show their opposition to violent…


Fight for workers control of production!

Vol. 85/No. 24 - June 21, 2021

Statement by Joanne Kuniansky, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New Jersey governor, June 9. Safety is at the heart of many working-class struggles today as the bosses drive to increase productivity and profits, leading to deadly speedup and disdain for…