Fight to bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia home grows stronger

Vol. 89/No. 17 - May 5, 2025
Jennifer Vasquez Sura, wife of deported SMART union member Kilmar Abrego Garcia, demands his return to the U.S. outside district court hearing in Greenbelt, Maryland, April 15.

LANGLEY PARK, Md. — For the first time since his arrest by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and deportation to the notorious CECOT megaprison in El Salvador March 15, Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been able to communicate with someone outside of…


‘Fidel and Che led working people to rely on themselves’

Vol. 89/No. 17 - May 5, 2025
Che Guevara, second from left, visits factory as Cuba’s minister of industry in the early 1960s. He talked with workers about setting an example and reinforcing communist consciousness of work as a social responsibility. Along with Fidel Castro, Che was part of leadership cadres forged in struggle who led Cuban working people to take state power and begin to transform themselves as they transformed society.

Below are remarks given by Mary-Alice Waters Feb. 21 during the 2025 Havana International Book Fair at a presentation of Pathfinder’s new edition of Che Guevara on Economics and Politics in the Transition to Socialism by Carlos Tablada. The other…



Defend constitutional freedoms from attack by Democrats and Republicans

Vol. 89/No. 17 - May 5, 2025

The unqualified defense of constitutional protections to prevent government interference in our lives, our unions and in political activity is vital for workers. In the U.S. — where the ruling capitalist families ruthlessly exploit working people — free speech, freedom…



Unions join to fight gov’t call for workers to ‘self-deport’

Vol. 89/No. 17 - May 5, 2025

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Hundreds of immigrant workers in the biggest factories and other job sites in the Louisville area have received government letters saying their humanitarian parole visas are being terminated and they will face removal if they don’t “self-deport”…


17 days: 2,213 sign to put SWP on NJ ballot

Vol. 89/No. 17 - May 5, 2025
“It’s going to take us standing together,” Kim Kahoun, retired member of operating engineers union, told Craig Honts, SWP candidate for New Jersey lieutenant governor, outside Walmart in Hammonton April 19.

UNION CITY, N.J. — Almost 1,000 people signed up in one week, April 14-21, to put the Socialist Workers Party candidates in New Jersey, Joanne Kuniansky for governor and Craig Honts for lieutenant governor, on the ballot. This brings the…


Israeli victory over Hamas is in the interest of all workers

Vol. 89/No. 17 - May 5, 2025

Blows dealt by Israel in its war to decisively defeat Hamas are aimed at preventing the Nazi-like outfit from carrying out its oft-repeated threats to continue launching pogroms against Jews until it achieves another Holocaust. These advances are reverberating across…


No deportations! Amnesty for all immigrant workers in US!

Vol. 89/No. 17 - May 5, 2025
In Miami, Rachele Fruit, right, and Chuck Guerra, supporters of SWP mayoral candidate Laura Anderson, discussed demand of amnesty for immigrants at “National Day of Action” April 19.

‘More workers see SWP as party they’re seeking’ “We are presenting the working-class road to take political power,” Norton Sandler, Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor of California, told a campaign rally in Los Angeles April 13. The SWP is…