SWP ‘stimulus’ appeal fund at $85,400 and growing

Vol. 84/No. 21 - June 1, 2020

Michele Smith sent the following note with her contribution to the Socialist Workers Party’s special “stimulus” fund appeal: “At last, my economic impact payment arrived in the mail yesterday. I’m happy to send it.” Contributors to the special appeal now…


Contributions grow to SWP ‘stimulus’ payout appeal

Vol. 84/No. 19 - May 18, 2020

The special Socialist Workers Party appeal for donations from the one-time federal government “stimulus” payments now counts 41 contributors from around the U.S. The total stands at $45,220, and is growing! The appeal for contributions toward the long-term work of…


‘Stimulus’ payout donations are big boost to SWP

Vol. 84/No. 18 - May 11, 2020

The response to the Socialist Workers Party appeal for contributions from the one-time government “stimulus” payout of $1,200 is starting to pick up. In the last week 28 contributors have sent in a total of $32,200 toward the long-term work…


Contribute ‘stimulus’ payout to build SWP

Vol. 84/No. 17 - May 4, 2020

Congress voted March 25 to pass a so-called economic stabilization package in the midst of the deep and unstable social and economic crisis facing working people in the U.S. and worldwide. It includes a one-time special payout of $1,200 to…



Why workers should fight for control of production

Vol. 84/No. 6 - February 17, 2020

As part of strengthening the self-confidence, fighting capacities and class consciousness of working people, Socialist Workers Party candidates for president and vice president Alyson Kennedy and Malcolm Jarrett, explain why the fight for workers control of production is a key…


The Turn to Industry: Forging a Proletarian Party

Advancing a working-class program requires a party working class in composition
Vol. 83/No. 41 - November 11, 2019
Miners block rails, Harlan County, Kentucky, July 2019, to stop Blackjewel bosses from hauling coal until wages owed them were paid. The nonunion miners won broad support and, in October, their back pay.

Below is the introduction to the new book, The Turn to Industry: Forging a Proletarian Party by Jack Barnes. Barnes is the national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party. Copyright © 2019 by Pathfinder Press. Reprinted by permission. BY JACK…


SWP delegation brings solidarity to Puerto Rico

Vol. 83/ No. 32 - September 2, 2019
SWP delegation brings solidarity to Puerto Rico

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Alyson Kennedy, above right, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. president in 2016 and a Walmart worker in Dallas, joined a 200-strong demonstration “For our lands” here Aug. 16, at the start of a five-day…


Socialist Workers Party champions desegregation fight

Vol. 83/No. 27 - July 29, 2019

A brief, but acrimonious, exchange about busing for school desegregation between Kamala Harris and Joe Biden at the June 27 Democratic Party debate in Miami received lots of news coverage but had little substance.   Neither Harris nor Biden are…


SWP moves out to expand political reach of the party

Vol. 83/No. 16 - April 22, 2019
“For years I’ve hated how capitalism pits everyone against each other,” nurse Mickale Hensley, left, in her front yard, told SWP member Maggie Trowe in Williamstown, Kentucky, April 5.

REEDLEY, Calif. — Socialist Workers Party members and supporters from the Bay Area and Los Angeles spent two days in California’s agricultural heartland, the Central Valley, April 6-7. They knocked on doors to meet and get to know fellow working…