SWP campaigns for a program to unite workers and farmers in struggle

Vol. 87/No. 32 - August 28, 2023
“I want nothing but the real facts. We have to understand the world today,” construction worker Lorenzo Rainwater told SWP candidates Henry Dennison, left, and Vincent Auger, right, in Seattle Aug. 9, as he bought the Militant and asked them to come back for further discussion.

FRESNO, Calif. — Laura Garza, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Senate from California, addressed a meeting of the African American Farmers of California at a local restaurant here Aug. 11. Thirteen people took part. In brief remarks, Garza noted…


SWP campaign offers program working people can use to fight

Vol. 87/No. 31 - August 21, 2023
Joanne Kuniansky, right, SWP candidate for New Jersey State Senate, joined in solidarity with striking nurses, members of USW Local 4-200, at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, Aug. 6. From left, picket captain Nancy Lipschutz and nurse Patrick Miller.

Socialist Workers Party candidates and campaign supporters are presenting a political program and demands that point a road forward to defend the interests of working people, and advancing the need for solidarity with unionists fighting attacks by the bosses —…


Seize opportunities to strengthen unions!

Vol. 87/No. 30 - August 14, 2023

Statement by Chris Hoeppner, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of Philadelphia, Aug. 2. Recent rallies by Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers unionists on strike against International Flavors and Fragrances in Memphis, Tennessee, and by Screen Actors Guild-American…


SWP candidates build solidarity, join in today’s union struggles

Vol. 87/No. 29 - August 7, 2023

Socialist Workers Party candidates and their supporters have been joining strike picket lines and stepping up efforts in their unions and through their campaigns to build solidarity with these working-class battles. Using the Militant’s pro-labor coverage, they visit with workers…


SWP campaigns on program to counter economic crisis

Vol. 87/No. 29 - August 7, 2023

What can working people do to defend ourselves from the bosses who continue to push the economic crisis of their system onto our backs? Strikes and other battles by thousands of union members are underway to win better wages and…


SWP meeting in California maps out bold 2024 campaign

Vol. 87/No. 27 - July 24, 2023
Laura Garza, rail worker and SWP candidate for U.S. Senate from California, joins hotel workers in UNITE HERE Local 11 on strike picket line July 2 at InterContinental Hotel in Los Angeles.

LOS ANGELES — “Laura Garza is not just a Socialist Workers Party candidate in California. This is a campaign for the working class in the United States,” Alyson Kennedy, SWP candidate for mayor of Fort Worth, Texas, last May, told…


A road to defend workers and our families

Vol. 87/No. 26 - July 17, 2023

Statement by Laura Garza, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Senate from California, July 5. The confidence and determination shown by striking Los Angeles hotel workers is a boost to the entire labor movement. Thousands-strong, UNITE HERE Local 11 members…


‘Workers need a labor party based on the unions’

SWP launches California campaign for US Senate
Vol. 87/No. 23 - June 12, 2023
Laura Garza, left, SWP candidate for U.S. Senate from California in 2024, at May 26 union rally in Los Angeles. Garza says workers need to break from the Democrats, Republicans.

LOS ANGELES — At a May 26 labor rally here, Laura Garza, a rail worker and member of the SMART-Transportation Division union, and her campaign supporters distributed hundreds of flyers announcing she was running as the Socialist Workers Party candidate…


SWP on ballot in Washington, candidates file in New Jersey

Vol. 87/No. 23 - June 12, 2023
Lea Sherman, center, SWP candidate for New Jersey General Assembly, and Joanne Kuniansky, party’s candidate for State Senate, filed for ballot status in Trenton May 26. From left, campaign supporter Rich Ariza and Osborne Hart, Philadelphia SWP City Council candidate.

Socialist Workers Party campaigners are introducing the party’s candidates and the working-class road forward — on workers’ doorsteps, at strike picket lines, and at protests in defense of workers’ interests, like actions called to oppose Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. Through…


Why you should join the SWP campaign

Vol. 87/No. 23 - June 12, 2023

Statement by Seth Galinsky, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New York City Council, May 31. The Socialist Workers Party’s 2024 campaigns are beginning, with Laura Garza announcing her campaign for U.S. Senate in California at a sizable labor rally in…