California referendum is blow to women’s emancipation

Vol. 86/No. 42 - November 14, 2022

OAKLAND, Calif. — The Socialist Workers Party has a long history of backing decriminalization of abortion, a part of the broader battle to advance the rights, interests and fighting capacity of women and working people as a whole. But Proposition…


Women’s conference debates road forward, Democratic Party

Vol. 86/No. 34 - September 19, 2022
Organizers of Women’s March in Washington, Jan. 21, 2017, rallied for failed campaign of Hillary Clinton against newly elected President Donald Trump, blaming “deplorable” workers for outcome. Houston conference was organized to recruit for Democrats in 2022.

HOUSTON — The deepening economic attacks on working people and how to win people to the fight for women’s emancipation were discussed by hundreds from across the country participating in a national Women’s Convention here Aug. 12-14. The event was…




Rebuff by working people, 2021 losses fuel divisions in Democratic Party

Vol. 85/No. 44 - November 29, 2021
Deepening capitalist crisis is behind increased labor actions. Striking bakery workers, members of BCTGM Local 374G, picket Kellogg’s cereal plant in East Hempfield, Pennsylvania, Oct. 30.

Frictions and acrimony roiling the Democratic Party — between so-called moderates like Sen. Joe Manchin from West Virginia, “progressives” like Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton, and liberals and socialist Democrats like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — are exacerbated by the party’s 2021…


What do the 2021 election results mean for the US working class?

Vol. 85/No. 43 - November 22, 2021
Doug Nelson, SWP candidate for Minneapolis mayor, right, at rally against U.S. Cuba embargo July 15. SWP candidates built support for union fights, offered road forward for working class.

The 2021 elections registered a sharp rejection of the anti-working-class politics of the liberal and middle-class socialist wing of the Democratic Party by workers and farmers across the country. From “defund the cops” referendums in Minneapolis and Seattle to the…



NY debate on how to deal with rising crime, cop brutality

Vol. 85/No. 27 - July 12, 2021

NEW YORK — “Working people are discussing the rise in assaults and robberies here and across the country, and police brutality,” Róger Calero, Socialist Worker Party candidate for mayor, told the Militant June 30. Calero and running mates Willie Cotton…


Democrat-led state gov’ts cut ballot rights of SWP, others

Vol. 85/No. 25 - June 28, 2021

Democratic Party politicians and their boosters in the liberal media have been posturing as the foremost defenders of the voting rights of working people, but the fact is their only interest is trying to jerry-rig the system to assure they…


US rulers step up attack on right to be on ballot

Vol. 85/No. 12 - March 29, 2021

The capitalist rulers and their Democratic and Republican parties have been stepping up attacks on ballot access for the Socialist Workers Party, and other independent political candidates. This effort is bipartisan, as millions of workers and farmers, facing worsening working…