MONTREAL — The political activity and contributions of Frank Gorton, a 56-year cadre of the world communist movement, were celebrated here at a May 31 event sponsored by the Communist League. Gorton dedicated his life to building communist parties in…
The protests against police brutality that are sweeping the U.S. and the world — combined with resistance to the bosses’ attacks as the capitalist economic crisis unfolds — have boosted interest in the Militant newspaper, books by Socialist Workers Party…
The following statement was released June 2 by David Rosenfeld, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Senate in Minnesota. The police killing of George Floyd has been met with outrage and protest throughout Minnesota, across the country and internationally. The…
Participants in rapidly growing protests around the country against the cop killing of George Floyd are buying up copies of the Militant newspaper and subscribing, purchasing books by Socialist Workers Party leaders and other revolutionaries, and contributing to the Militant…
In the past week “stimulus” appeal contributions to the Socialist Workers Party reached $105,700 from 94 contributors with 10 new people in the last week. The total continues to grow. “I am so happy to be sending my contribution to…
ATLANTA — A meeting to celebrate the political contributions of Cheryl Goertz, a 55-year cadre of the Socialist Workers Party, was held here May 30. Participants came from Atlanta; Greensboro and Hayesville, North Carolina; Miami and Plant City, Florida; Carrollton,…
Fruit packers in Washington’s Yakima Valley who are striking and protesting for higher wages, safer working conditions and respect, along with owner-operator truck drivers fighting against brokers’ rate-gouging and onerous government regulations are setting an example for working people everywhere.…
Alyson Kennedy, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for president, issued the following statement May 26. Malcolm Jarrett is the party’s candidate for vice president. The bosses and their governments tell workers “we are all in this together” as they have…
“Our favorite paper just arrived, el Militante,” Ramón Torres, president of Familias Unidas union, announced when Henry Dennison got to the picket line at Monson Fruit May 13, where striking workers are battling bosses attacks. The company in Selah, Washington,…
ATLANTA — Cheryl Goertz, a 55-year cadre of the Socialist Workers Party, died May 19 of complications from a lifelong congenital autoimmune disease. Born in Hillsboro, Kansas, in 1944, Goertz joined the SWP in the mid-1960s in Chicago. She spent…
