Laura Garza, SWP candidate for mayor of Los Angeles, and Eric Simpson, SWP candidate for mayor of Oakland, California, join march in defense of immigrants rights in Delano March 31.
Socialist Workers Party 2025 campaign

‘Workers need to take political power into our own hands’

SWP candidates get hearing for working-class program DELANO, Calif.— Norton Sandler, Socialist Workers Party candidate for California governor, launched his campaign as he joined several thousand farmworkers and other unionists fighting to defend the rights of immigrants at the “With…


Farmworkers protest against ICE arrest of union leader

Over 400 protesters rallied to demand release of farmworkers’ union organizer Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez at ICE’s Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington, March 27.

SEATTLE — Early in the morning of March 25 Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez Zeferino, a leader of the farmworkers union, Familias Unidas por la Justicia, was stopped by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Skagit County as he drove his…


Join campaign to put the SWP on New Jersey ballot

Joanne Kuniansky, SWP candidate for New Jersey governor, with Joe Rutkoski, NALC Branch 38 president, at March 23 rally in Springfield, N.J., against threatened cuts in postal service.

UNION CITY, N.J. — Beginning April 5, Socialist Workers Party campaigners will be fanning out from here across the state to introduce the party, its program, candidates and activities widely to working people, and to put Joanne Kuniansky for governor…


New protests erupt in Gaza against brutal rule of Hamas

Thousands took to the streets of Beit Lahiya April 2 to demand Hamas get out of Gaza. Anger at Hamas for bringing destruction to Palestinians is growing.

Three days of protests by thousands of Palestinians in Gaza punctured the illusion promoted by Hamas and its apologists around the world that the Tehran-backed group defends the national interests of the people there. The just demands and courage of…



Back BCTGM workers on strike at Knappen Milling in Michigan

AUGUSTA, Mich. — Twenty workers at Knappen Milling, members of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 3G, went on strike here March 11. The workers, who make baking flour, are fighting for wages that keep up with sky-high…


Toilers in Ukraine fight to defend their nat’l sovereignty

President Donald Trump’s efforts to broker a ceasefire in Moscow’s war against Ukraine have become more protracted than he expected. The Ukrainian government has backed Trump’s ceasefire plan, but Moscow categorically rejects it. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime is continuing…

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Cuba and Chernobyl

This Cuban documentary produced in 2006 tells the story of the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe in Ukraine and Cuba’s exemplary internationalist medical program that treated more than 25,000 victims.