Paul Mailhot, left, SWP candidate for New York mayor, campaigns against U.S. rulers’ drive toward depression and war at May Day rally in N.Y. Kylie Rimes, right, got Militant subscription.

Socialist Workers Party 2025 campaign

‘In a world of crises, conflicts, the SWP is the anti-war party’

SWP looks to wrap up NJ ballot fight, expand support UNION CITY, N.J. — “We’re closing in on our goal of signing up over 3,200 people across New Jersey to show their support for the Socialist Workers Party being on…

Gaza protests show world that Hamas is enemy of Palestinians

Three of those recently murdered by Hamas in wake of spreading protests. Top, clockwise: Munther Yaseen and Tamer Kafarneh, reported to have been executed for trying to stop thugs from looting aid warehouse; Ziad Shalouf, a well-known figure in Khan Younis.

The growing, courageous opposition to Hamas in Gaza is puncturing the myth pushed by its apologists around the world that Hamas and its allies are fighting for Palestinian rights. For 18 years, Hamas beat, tortured and killed its opponents in…

SWP is the party working people are looking to join

Teamsters Local 728 members are on strike against 10 Roads Express in Palmetto, Georgia, above, and in 10 other states. Three of the strikers there have subscribed to the Militant.

As Socialist Workers Party candidates are getting a real hearing, members of the party and Communist Leagues in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom are heading toward the successful completion of the eight-week spring campaign to win 1,300 new Militant…

US, Beijing tariff struggle raises threat of future wars

Washington’s stiff tariffs levied against Chinese trade are a key part of the U.S. capitalist rulers’ efforts to contain Beijing’s challenge to their weakening domination of a disintegrating world imperialist “order.” Working people in the U.S. have no reason to…

May Day rallies defend the rights of immigrants, strengthen unions

Jennifer Vasquez Sura speaks at May 1 march in Washington, D.C., organized by immigrant rights group CASA. She is wife of unionist Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was denied due process, deported to El Salvador. His union, SMART, AFL-CIO, others are calling for his release, return.

Defense of the rights of immigrant workers, including calls for amnesty for all workers without papers in the U.S. and against deportations, was an important feature of May Day actions mounted by unions and others around the country. Many demanded…

Fidel Castro: ‘For revolutionaries, moral values outweigh weapons’

Rebel Army turns captured soldiers of dictator Fulgencio Batista over to Red Cross in mid-1958 in Sierra Maestra. “No prisoner’s life has ever been taken, no wounded soldier left without medical care,” Fidel Castro said. “No prisoner has ever been beaten, insulted, or humiliated.”

The following are excerpts from an Aug. 19, 1958, broadcast by Fidel Castro from the Sierra Maestra mountains on Radio Rebelde, the station of the Rebel Army during the revolutionary war against the Fulgencio Batista tyranny. It is reprinted from…

Washington’s use of Alien Enemies Act is threat to the working class

Federal judge Fernando Rodriguez Jr. May 1 ordered a stop to President Donald Trump’s moves to use the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to detain and deport people accused of being members of Tren de Aragua, a criminal gang from Venezuela.…

Also In This Issue

Editorials

Trade conflicts point to coming crises, wars

25, 50 and 75 years ago

Features

US-led 1991 Iraq slaughter: ‘Opening guns of World War III’

Washington’s 1991 war on Iraq, Jack Barnes said, announced “loud and clear, the conflicts that lie ahead as the imperialist rulers follow the historic logic of their declining world system.”

This week the Militant is featuring “The Opening Guns of World War III: Washington’s Assault on Iraq” by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party. It’s the lead article in New International no. 7. Along with issues no.…

‘There Is No Peace!’ — 1945 to world crises today: Socialist Workers Party points road forward

‘Working class needs to take power into our own hands’

“There Is No Peace!” That was the banner headline on the Aug. 18, 1945, issue of the Militant, featuring…

Forging a proletarian party in the class struggle today

Socialist Workers Party uses Marxist program and party’s experiences to set course

American Airlines flight attendants protest at Dallas-Fort Worth airport Sept. 5, 2023. There has been a renewal of fights and solidarity activity by workers, unionists in U.S.

“Every class struggle is a political struggle.” With that statement Jack Barnes, national secretary of…

Opposing US ruling-class assaults on freedoms protected by the Constitution

Left, President Joseph Biden, speaking May 31 at the White House, called Donald Trump supporters “semi-fascists” and “MAGA Republicans” to justify targeting his constitutional rights. Trump was found guilty May 30 in politically concocted trial violating his Sixth Amendment right “to know the nature of the charges” and to an impartial jury. Yet Biden urged no one to criticize “our justice system.” Right, Florida, August 2022. Armed raid by Justice Department on Trump home in Mar-a-Lago, trampling protections against unreasonable searches and seizures. Under bourgeois regimes, “all suppression of political rights and freedom, no matter whom they’re directed against at the start, in the end inevitably bear down upon the working class,” communist leader Leon Trotsky said in 1939.

“Opposing US rulers’ assaults on freedoms protected by the Constitution and their use of the political…

The fight against Jew-hatred and pogroms in the imperialist epoch

Stakes for the international working class

Pogroms, yesterday and today. Top, Hamas parades Jewish man murdered by death squad Oct. 7 past cheering supporters in Gaza City. Massacre in southern Israel was deadliest single attack on Jews since Hitler’s “Final Solution.” Bottom, using what Bolshevik leader V.I. Lenin called “the most savage and furious methods,” tsarist-inspired pogromists in 1906 murdered 80 Jews in Belostok, in what is now Poland. Photo shows Jewish family after assault.

Below is the opening chapter by Socialist Workers Party leader Dave Prince of the new book, The Fight Against…

Defend Israel’s right to exist as refuge for Jews!
Condemn Jew-hating pogrom!

The record of the 'Militant' and the Socialist Workers Party

SWP campaign joined opponents of Jew-hatred in rally at University of California in Berkeley March 11 in defense of free speech, against shutdown of Jewish student meeting there Feb. 26.

Click on the links below to read news, opinion and background historical coverage of the events in Israel…

‘A genuine revolution means leading the millions’

Class struggle in the US today, the Cuban Revolution and building a proletarian party

April 25 book presentation in Havana at headquarters of Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples. Inset, from left, Mary-Alice Waters; ICAP leader Noemí Rabaza, who chaired and spoke. In Cuba, Rabaza said, the government represents workers’ class interests not those of the capitalists. “What Noemí says is important,” Waters noted in discussion period. Cuba’s socialist revolution is a beacon worldwide and sets the example for working people in the U.S., too. “Alone we’ll be defeated. Fighting together, we can win,” Waters ended.

The following are the remarks by Mary-Alice Waters at an April 25 presentation in Havana of the book…

‘Cuban Revolution: a challenge to US imperialism’

Cuban representative speaks on US economic war, campaign of lies against socialist revolution

BY MARTÍN KOPPEL, MARY-ALICE WATERS, AND RÓGER CALERO NEW YORK — Carlos Fernández de Cossío, head of…

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.