‘Workers need our own party, a labor party’

Vol. 84/No. 7 - February 24, 2020
SWP presidential candidate Alyson Kennedy talks with auto mechanic Rogelio Rodriguez at his home in Dallas Jan. 24. Working people need to break with the capitalists’ parties, she said.

DALLAS — The two main capitalist parties, the Democrats and Republicans, are in crisis, Alyson Kennedy, Socialist Workers Party candidate for president, told participants in a campaign rally here Feb. 8. And, she said, more and more workers are concluding…


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Vol. 84/No. 4 - February 3, 2020

Socialist Workers Party candidates around the country present a course of working-class struggle against the employing class — the necessity of fighting to defend and improve our wages, social rights and working conditions. These struggles — and solidarity with others…


SWP: Back workers’ fight to win control over job safety

Vol. 84/No. 4 - February 3, 2020
Naomi Craine, right, SWP candidate for U.S. Senate in Illinois, speaks at Jan. 10 rally in Chicago to demand freedom for Gerald Reed and other victims of cop torture. “It’s an outrage that Reed is still in jail a year after his conviction was overturned,” Craine told fellow protesters.

The Socialist Workers Party 2020 presidential ticket will be announced shortly and a slate of candidates across the country is advancing a program for working people to defend their jobs, income and safety and fight in the interests of all…


‘The making of a union bureaucrat’

From ‘The Turn to Industry: Forging a Proletarian Party,’ new book from Pathfinder Press
Vol. 83/No. 46 - December 16, 2019

The following is a chapter excerpted from The Turn to Industry: Forging a Proletarian Party by Socialist Workers Party National Secretary Jack Barnes. The Militant ran the new book’s introduction in its Nov. 11 issue, and will continue to publish…