Socialist Workers Party members Ved Dookhun and Candace Wagner visited East Palestine, Ohio, Feb. 19. They got into a discussion with a cook, Michael McIntosh, at his house a few hundred yards from the area where a 150-car Norfolk Southern…
MONTREAL — Communist League leader Michel Prairie welcomed close to 30 people at a meeting here Feb. 11 to celebrate publication of The Low Point of Labor Resistance Is Behind Us: The Socialist Workers Party Looks Forward. The new book…
Through discussions at workers’ doorsteps in cities and the countryside, at union picket lines and social protests, members and supporters of the Socialist Workers Party and Communist Leagues in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom are getting out the new…
With housing costs rising faster than workers’ wages, those renting apartments or homes are paying on the average 30% of their income for rent, an all-time high. Mortgage rates have doubled in the past year. Underneath these figures is the…
MADISON, Wisc. — Some 2,000 people took part in a women’s march and rally here Jan. 22 calling for the overturn of an 1849 state law banning nearly all abortions, and for the reopening of clinics that provide the procedure.…
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…
Mary Lou Montauk, a lifelong member and supporter of the Socialist Workers Party, died Jan. 5, a few days before turning 93. A meeting to celebrate her life and political contributions will be held Jan. 21 at 8400 Enterprise Way…
OAKLAND, Calif. — Union nurses at Sutter Alta Bates hospitals here and in Berkeley concluded a nine-day strike on New Year’s Day with rallies at both locations. Some 1,800 members of the California Nurses Association had turned down hospital bosses’…
Joining the full-time Militant writing staff is Vivian Sahner, a member of the Socialist Workers Party branch in Northern New Jersey. Sahner was the 2021 SWP candidate for lieutenant governor in New Jersey while part of the party’s national trade…
COVID-19 cases are on the rise in the U.S. and worldwide. Close to 3,000 people died across the country in the third week of December, nearly 90% of them over 65 years old. Hospitalizations have increased 30% over the last…
