SWP candidate campaigns for abortion, prisoners’ rights

Vol. 83/No. 6 - February 11, 2019

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Amy Husk, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Kentucky governor, and her supporters are campaigning to defend women’s right to choose abortion from threatened new attacks here. Leaders in the legislature are moving to pass a “fetal heartbeat”…


SWP Dallas campaign attracts working-class interest in Texas

Vol. 83/No. 5 - February 4, 2019
SWP Dallas campaign attracts working-class interest in Texas

DALLAS — “Really the only way to change things is what they are doing,” Katelyn Galbreath told Socialist Workers Party campaigner Sarah Ullman, pointing to the photo of Kentucky teachers protesting at the state Capitol last year depicted on the…


SWP takes working-class campaign all across Texas

SWP candidate wins support of ‘forgotten, disrespected’
Vol. 83/No. 4 - January 28, 2019
Alyson Kennedy, SWP candidate for Dallas mayor, and campaign supporter Samir Hazboun show on maps where they will campaign around the state as they also get on ballot in Dallas.

DALLAS — Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of Dallas Alyson Kennedy and her supporters are campaigning far and wide in Texas to defend the rights and living standards of working people. Her campaign is gaining the attention of those…


‘Take a map, stop in towns along the road and campaign’

Vol. 83/No. 4 - January 28, 2019
Communist League member Julie Crawford shows health care worker Olly Tuppen Are They Rich Because They’re Smart? by Jack Barnes, in Basildon, Essex, near London, Jan. 12. “They’re rich because of us!” said Tuppen. She also got a Militant subscription.

Members of the Socialist Workers Party and the Communist Leagues in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom are knocking on workers’ doors in cities, towns as well as farming and ranching areas far and wide. In many places,…


SWP Statement: Support Los Angeles teachers strike!

Vol. 83/No. 4 - January 28, 2019

The following statement was issued Jan. 16 by Socialist Workers Party candidates Dennis Richter for City Council District 12 and Laura Garza for School Board in Los Angeles. The strike by 31,000 teachers in Los Angeles is a battle being…


Socialist Workers Party launches Texas campaign

‘We’re going to campaign all throughout the state’
Vol. 83/No. 3 - January 21, 2019
Alyson Kennedy, SWP candidate for Dallas mayor, introduces SWP to Jorge Méndez Jan. 8.

Supporters of the campaign of Alyson Kennedy, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Dallas mayor, are planning two weeks of intensive campaigning Jan 12-26. “We’re going to go all over Texas,” George Chalmers, who is organizing the campaigning, said by phone…


SWP wins a hearing in Kentucky coal country

Vol. 83/No. 3 - January 21, 2019
Amy Husk, left, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Kentucky governor, talks with Martha Blair on her doorstep in Whitesburg, Kentucky, Jan. 4, about party’s campaign and upcoming May Day Brigade to Cuba. Blair said she was interested in working on both.

WHITESBURG, Ky. — Socialist Workers Party candidates and members are talking with working people in big cities, small towns and farming areas across the country. Everywhere they go they knock on doors and introduce the party, its program, the Militant …


Fight to extend right to vote for ex-prisoners!

Vol. 83/No. 3 - January 21, 2019

The statement below was released Jan. 9 by Amy Husk, Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor in Kentucky. Former prisoners in Florida proudly asserted their newly won rights by lining up to register to vote Jan. 8. Working people across…


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SWP candidates are ‘tribunes of the people’
Vol. 83/No. 2 - January 14, 2019
Alyson Kennedy, SWP candidate for Dallas mayor, speaks with Dakotah Luster Dec. 30. “Democrats and Republicans are parties of the bosses,” she said. “We need our own party.”

The Socialist Workers Party has announced plans to run candidates for more than a dozen municipal and state offices across the country in 2019, including in Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas and Washington. They will…


US troops out of Middle East, Afghanistan now!

Vol. 83/No. 2 - January 14, 2019

The following statement was issued Jan. 2 by Alyson Kennedy, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Dallas mayor. The Socialist Workers Party demands the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of U.S. troops, bombers and warships from the Middle East and Afghanistan! The…