‘A road forward to raise workers’ confidence in our own capacities’

Vol. 87/No. 25 - July 10, 2023
Laura Garza, Socialist Workers Party 2024 candidate for U.S. Senate from California, speaks at closing panel.

OBERLIN, Ohio — The political report by Socialist Workers Party National Secretary Jack Barnes adopted by the June 12 expanded leadership meeting to guide party work culminated several days of plenary talks, summary presentations, classes and discussions during the international…


Socialist Workers Party leadership sets course ahead

Adopts course to build union solidarity • defend constitutional freedoms • fight for wages, hours, job conditions that prevent families in working class from being torn apart • defend Cuba’s socialist revolution and its example in the U.S. and world over
Vol. 87/No. 25 - July 10, 2023
International Educational Conference in Oberlin, Ohio, June 8-10, brought together over 330 people for reports, discussion on communist program, continuity and activities. Right, SWP literature table during conference.

OBERLIN, Ohio — “The sweeping indictment of Donald Trump under the Espionage Act by President Joseph Biden’s Justice Department is another step along the course the Democratic Party has been pressing for seven years of criminalizing political opposition and debate,”…


SWP Int’l Educational Conference set June 8-11 in Ohio

Vol. 87/No. 16 - April 24, 2023

The Socialist Workers Party 2023 International Educational Conference is less than two months away. The conference will take place June 8-11 at Oberlin College, in Oberlin, Ohio. The conference will include reports by leaders of the party, classes and discussion…


Working-class road forward debated at conference

Vol. 87/No. 15 - April 17, 2023

CHICAGO — “A decadeslong retreat by the working class and unions has ended, while the owners of capital and their parties, Democrats and Republicans alike, are intensifying efforts to shift the burden of their crisis onto working people,” Roy Landersen,…


End of decadeslong retreat of labor opens new opportunities

Oberlin conference will discuss strengthening unions, building Socialist Workers Party
Vol. 87/No. 11 - March 20, 2023
School bus drivers strike in Wasilla, Alaska, Jan. 26, demanding adequate heating, headlights, windshield wipers and pay. More workers today are using their unions to fight attacks of bosses and their government

“Our experiences in the United States confirm that the low point of working-class and labor resistance is behind us,” said Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, in his report on the draft political resolution before the party’s…


SWP to host Ohio conference to discuss road forward for working people today

Vol. 86/No. 21 - May 30, 2022

The Socialist Workers Party is hosting its annual International Active Workers Conference at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio, June 9-11. The conference will bring together members and supporters of the communist movement and others from around the world who are…


SWP conference: Leading the working class to take power

Vol. 85/No. 30 - August 16, 2021
Jack Barnes, SWP national secretary, speaks at conference. SWP leader Mary-Alice Waters, right. Banner captured central themes of conference presentations, classes, discussions.

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — “This is a book about the dictatorship of capital and the road to the dictatorship of the proletariat,” Socialist Workers Party National Secretary Jack Barnes said, pointing to Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers…


SWP hosts Active Workers Conference in Ohio July 22-24

Vol. 85/No. 29 - July 26, 2021

Under the banner of “Leading the Working Class to Take Power/ Join the Socialist Workers Party!/ Build the Communist Vanguard!” the SWP is hosting an International Active Workers Conference at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio, July 22-24. Working-class fighters who’ve…


Join SWP at Int’l Active Workers Conference in Ohio July 22-24

Vol. 85/No. 28 - July 19, 2021

The Socialist Workers Party-hosted International Active Workers Conference at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio, July 22-24, is fast approaching. This will be the first opportunity in two years to join together nationally with so many fellow working-class fighters over three…


Come to the Int’l Active Workers Conference in Ohio!

Vol. 85/No. 27 - July 12, 2021

The 2021 Active Workers Conference sponsored by the Socialist Workers Party July 22-24 is a unique opportunity to spend three intensive days with fellow working-class fighters discussing the road forward today. The gathering, to be held at Wittenberg University in…