‘No one had to die from the storm,’ SWP candidates say

Vol. 85/No. 35 - September 27, 2021
Róger Calero, SWP candidate for New York mayor, discusses disaster for workers from tropical storm flooding with Luis Rosas, retired maintenance worker in Woodside, Queens, Sept. 12.

QUEENS, N.Y. — Socialist Workers Party candidates Róger Calero for mayor of New York City and Willie Cotton for public advocate, and campaign supporters on Sept. 12 extended solidarity to residents affected by destructive floods caused by heavy rain from…


‘Workers need to organize our own party, a labor party,’

Vol. 85/No. 34 - September 20, 2021
Working people face “a crisis of a social system that defends the interests and profits of the wealthy class,” Sam Manuel, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Atlanta City Council president, said during Sept. 1 candidates’ debate at Clark Atlanta University.

PLACERVILLE, Calif. — Dennis Richter, Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor of California, and SWP campaigners visited towns in the north of the state hit by wildfires Aug. 23. Since it began in July, the Dixie Fire has laid waste…


Join Labor Day actions, build solidarity

Vol. 85/No. 33 - September 6, 2021

Statement by Joanne Kuniansky, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New Jersey governor, Aug. 25. Marches, rallies and other actions planned by the labor movement around the country on or around Sept. 6 to mark Labor Day are an excellent opportunity…


SWP campaign draws lessons from past class struggle battles

Vol. 85/No. 33 - September 6, 2021
Dennis Richter, right, SWP candidate for governor of California, talks to Noble Kaus at San Leandro Walmart store Aug. 22. Richter urged Kaus, who works at a union-organized chocolate factory, to join in bringing solidarity to workers facing lockouts and strikes today.

“This is a book about the dictatorship of capital and the road to the dictatorship of the proletariat,” Jacquie Henderson read to retired health care worker Rose Skarski from a copy of Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to…


SWP campaign: ‘Workers need to fight to take political power’

Vol. 85/No. 32 - August 30, 2021
“I lost everything I valued in the Camp Fire,” Richard Reed told Jeff Powers, left, and Joel Britton, right, Socialist Workers Party candidate for State Assembly, in Paradise, California, Aug. 7. SWP campaigners are returning to visit with workers in area devastated by Dixie Fire.

“Working people today are keenly interested in how we can organize to fight to change the disastrous conditions we face worldwide — from Afghanistan, to Haiti, to the Middle East and here in mines, mills and other workplaces across the…


Workers need our own foreign policy

Vol. 85/No. 32 - August 30, 2021

Statement by Joanne Kuniansky, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New Jersey governor, Aug. 18.  President Joseph Biden claims his foreign policy “is the right one for America.” But there is no “America” that stands above conflicting social classes — the…


‘Workers need to build a party to lead fight for political power’

Vol. 85/No. 31 - August 23, 2021
Dennis Richter, right, SWP candidate for governor of California, talks with high school student Marcus Connelly at L.A. Walmart Aug. 5. Connelly said U.S. government should have made sure everyone could get vaccinated and jabs were given “to poor countries around the world.”

Socialist Workers Party candidates and campaign supporters are taking the party’s working-class politics far and wide, exchanging views and experiences with working people on their doorsteps, at strike picket lines and social protests. Workers and farmers are seeking ways we…


Defend Cuba’s socialist revolution!

Vol. 85/No. 31 - August 23, 2021

Statement by Vivian Sahner, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New Jersey lieutenant governor, Aug. 11. Working people are not only capable of waging mighty revolutionary struggles, we have proven we can win. That is the lesson of the two great…


All out in solidarity with Warrior Met miners on strike!

Vol. 85/No. 30 - August 16, 2021

Statement by Róger Calero, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New York City mayor, Aug. 4. Solidarity is needed to reinforce the strike by 1,100 miners at Warrior Met Coal and build on support they received at their rally in Brookwood,…


Join Socialist Workers Party campaigning!

Vol. 85/No. 30 - August 16, 2021
Socialist Workers Party campaigner Leroy Watson, right, discusses historic advances in fight against racism, including on strike picket lines, with Ben Allen, in Bellwood, Chicago, Aug. 1.

“SWP campaigners come out of the July 22-24 Socialist Workers Party International Conference better prepared to join in the struggles of working people and point the road forward to building a party that will lead millions to overturn capitalist rule…