Drought crisis is result of profit system

Vol. 87/No. 5 - February 6, 2023

Statement issued Jan. 25 by Ellie García, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Senate from California in 2022. Working farmers are victims of conditions over which they have no control. But these are not primarily natural disasters such as the…


SWP candidates file for the ballot in Texas

Vol. 87/No. 4 - January 30, 2023
SWP candidates file for the ballot in Texas

FORT WORTH — Alyson Kennedy, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor, and Gerardo Sánchez, running for City Council in the 5th District, filed for the ballot for the May 6 election in the city secretary’s office here Jan. 18. “We…


SWP: Workers need our own party, a labor party based on our unions

Vol. 87/No. 2 - January 9, 2023

Statement by Ilona Gersh, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of Chicago, Dec. 28. Recent experiences of millions of working people have driven home the fact that the key division in U.S. politics is not the conflicts between Democrats and…


SWP launches 2023 campaign: Ilona Gersh for Chicago mayor

Vol. 86/No. 46 - December 12, 2022

CHICAGO — The Socialist Workers Party announced Nov. 29 that it is running Ilona Gersh, a lifelong fighter for the interests of the working class, for mayor of Chicago. Gersh is a bakery worker and member of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco…


Socialist Workers Party offers road forward

Vol. 86/No. 44 - November 28, 2022

Statement issued by John Studer, Socialist Workers Party national campaign director, Nov. 16. Socialist Workers Party candidates in 2022 were the only voice saying that politics is not Red vs. Blue, or liberal vs. conservative, but class vs. class. They…


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Vol. 86/No. 42 - November 14, 2022
Rachele Fruit, candidata del PST para gobernadora de Florida, habla con Duchelande St. Fleur y su esposo Peter Carmant, en North Miami, el 31 de octubre, sobre el programa del PST.

In the final days of the 2022 campaign, Socialist Workers Party candidates are advancing a fighting working-class program, backing rail workers’ battle for livable working conditions and explaining why opposing government assaults on constitutional freedoms is central for working people.…


Vote Socialist Workers Party, back working class struggles!

Vol. 86/No. 41 - November 7, 2022
Alyson Kennedy with Gerardo Sánchez, right, Socialist Workers Party candidates for governor of Texas and U.S. Congress, speak to unionists at May 1 picnic at Lake Cliff Park, Dallas.

With early voting already underway, both Democrats and Republicans claim the midterm elections are the most important in decades. The bosses’ two main parties are laser focused on factional battles against each other. Whichever party controls the House and Senate…


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Vol. 86/No. 41 - November 7, 2022
Deborah Liatos, right, SWP candidate for U.S. Congress, talks with people at rally of thousands in Los Angeles Oct. 1 protesting death of Mahsa Amini in Iran after arrest by “morality” police.

With elections less than two weeks away, Socialist Workers Party candidates and campaign supporters are stepping up efforts to reach working people with the party’s program. Campaigners are bringing solidarity to strike picket lines, talking to workers and farmers door…


Back Ukraine people’s fight for sovereignty

Vol. 86/No. 41 - November 7, 2022

Statement by John Studer, Socialist Workers Party national campaign director, issued Oct. 26. Studer made three reporting trips to Ukraine in 2014 and 2015. Socialist Workers Party candidates present an independent working-class foreign policy that starts from the common class…


Vote Socialist Workers Party! Back rail workers, Iran protests

Vol. 86/No. 40 - October 31, 2022
Joel Britton, left, Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor of California, discusses politics with protester while campaigning at Iran solidarity rally of 2,000 in San Francisco Oct. 9.

In the final couple of weeks leading up to elections, candidates of the Socialist Workers Party are campaigning to get out news of key strikes and working-class battles worldwide and presenting the party’s program. And they are introducing working people…