Join the SWP campaigning for a future truly worth living

Vol. 85/No. 28 - July 19, 2021

Statement by Malcolm Jarrett, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Pittsburgh mayor, July 7. Striking steelworkers at Allegheny Technologies Inc. and autoworkers at Volvo Trucks in Virginia are discussing tentative deals reached by their unions. Oil refinery workers locked out by…


SWP files for ballot in race for governor of California

Vol. 85/No. 28 - July 19, 2021
Dennis Richter, Socialist Workers Party candidate for California governor, talks to Stella Useda while campaigning at Food4Less parking lot in Los Angeles July 5. Useda signed SWP petition.

Los Angeles — “Dennis Richter is for the workers,” said Latrice Mitchell. “I told my co-workers I’d rather vote for him than anybody else,” when asking them to sign the petition to put Richter, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for…


Workers need fighting unions, our own party

Vol. 85/No. 27 - July 12, 2021

Statement by Willie Cotton Socialist Workers Party candidate for New York City public advocate, June 29.  Working people — who bear the brunt of today’s crisis of the capitalist system — are looking for ways to resist attacks by the…


Join Socialist Workers Party campaign!

Vol. 85/No. 26 - July 5, 2021

Statement by Joanne Kuniansky, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New Jersey governor, June 22. As workers face bosses demanding speedup, givebacks in wages and attacks on safety, more of my fellow workers ask why is this happening? What can we…


Join the Socialist Workers Party campaign! Help spread the word

Vol. 85/No. 26 - July 5, 2021
In Woodland Park June 13, Richard Beinabel and Yamilka Mendez told Joanne Kuniansky, right, Walmart worker running as SWP candidate for N.J. governor, they liked that she is independent of Democrats and Republicans. They got Militant, books on working-class politics.

The Socialist Workers Party is on the ballot in New Jersey! The June 14 deadline passed with no challenge to the 1,500 signatures SWP campaign supporters collected for Joanne Kuniansky, the party’s candidate for New Jersey governor. The party plans…


SWP campaign expands reach, builds solidarity in Ill. coalfields

Vol. 85/No. 25 - June 28, 2021
Dennis Richter, SWP candidate for California governor, talks to unemployed home care worker Liliana Garcia in San Ysidro June 11 about amnesty for undocumented workers living in U.S.

Everywhere Socialist Workers Party campaigners are finding interest in discussing what workers and farmers face and how we can stand up together against the bosses’ assaults. Campaigners are in the final weeks of a nine-week drive to sell 1,400 Militant…


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…


Back workers standing up to boss attacks, build solidarity

Vol. 85/No. 24 - June 21, 2021

“We think workers should support unionists standing up to the bosses’ attacks, like striking miners in Alabama, and refinery workers in Minnesota and Texas,” Socialist Workers Party member Samir Hazboun told truck driver Dale Robinson in Louisville, Kentucky, June 5.…


SWP: ‘Workers need a fighting class-struggle road forward’

Vol. 85/No. 23 - June 14, 2021
Joel Britton, left, Socialist Workers Party candidate for California State Assembly District 18, talks with Quenton Hilton, a mechanic, in Fresno May 29. “Only on the job can workers fight together for higher wages, safer working conditions,” Britton said. “Yes!” Hilton agreed.

Socialist Workers Party candidates and campaigners are finding growing receptivity to their perspective for a class-struggle road forward against the attacks of the bosses and their government, and for workers to form their own party, a labor party. This is…


Workers need our own party, a labor party

Vol. 85/No. 23 - June 14, 2021

Statement by Osborne Hart, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Philadelphia district attorney, June 1.  As millions remain jobless today, driven out of the workforce by government-ordered coronavirus shut downs and the sharp contraction in capitalist production and trade, workers and…