NEW YORK — “Working people are discussing the rise in assaults and robberies here and across the country, and police brutality,” Róger Calero, Socialist Worker Party candidate for mayor, told the Militant June 30. Calero and running mates Willie Cotton…
MINNEAPOLIS — Supporters of Socialist Workers Party candidates Doug Nelson for mayor and David Rosenfeld for City Council in Ward 12 here had a successful weekend June 5-6 campaigning with workers on their doorsteps and collecting signatures to put Nelson…
GREENSBORO, N.C. — Protesters took to the streets in Elizabeth City May 18, just hours after Pasquotank County District Attorney Andrew Womble announced he had ruled that the shooting death of Andrew Brown Jr. by sheriff’s deputies there was “tragic,…
“Cuba and the Coming American Revolution: The 60th Anniversary of Two Historic Victories of the Cuban Revolution and Their Significance for Building a Revolutionary Party in the United States — Then and Now” was the featured talk at the Socialist…
GREENSBORO, N.C. — Angered at the April 21 cop killing of Andrew Brown Jr., hundreds have joined daily peaceful protests in Elizabeth City, a majority-Black town on the North Carolina coast. Brown, an unarmed 42-year-old African American, was shot five…
The following are excerpts from remarks by Doug Nelson, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of Minneapolis, addressing how a working-class movement against cop brutality can be built and the recent blows against constitutional rights registered in the trial and…
CHICAGO — More than 1,000 people marched through the streets of the mostly Latino neighborhood of Little Village here April 18 to protest the police killing of Adam Toledo. The action began next to the alley where the 13 year…
SAN LEANDRO, Calif. — Two hundred people joined a rally here April 18 to commemorate the life of Steven Taylor one year after he was killed by San Leandro police. He was shot inside the Walmart store on Hesperian Boulevard…
MINNEAPOLIS — A jury here convicted fired cop Derek Chauvin on all charges April 20 for the killing of George Floyd last May. After two days of deliberation the jury unanimously found Chauvin guilty of second- and third-degree murder and…
MINNEAPOLIS — Doug Nelson, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of Minneapolis, and SWP campaign supporters have been fanning out, bringing solidarity to labor battles, speaking out against police brutality and exchanging views with workers on their doorsteps about the…
