Washington-Beijing conflict sharpens with new tariff clash

Vol. 89/No. 16 - April 28, 2025
Joint war games by U.S., Japanese, Australian military forces in the Philippine Sea in 2020. U.S. rulers look to defend their military, financial supremacy from expanding reach of Beijing.

The battle over tariffs unfolding between Washington and Beijing, and worldwide, is driven by the determination of the capitalist rulers in every country to defend their own national interests against all others, as the crisis of their dog-eat-dog system deepens.…


Opposition to Hamas grows in Gaza and the West Bank

Vol. 89/No. 16 - April 28, 2025
Thousands march against Hamas in Beit Lahiya, Gaza, April 16. When a dozen men showed up with signs opposing disarming Hamas, protesters tore up their signs and kicked them out.

In one more reflection of the growing opposition to Hamas and its Jew-hating allies in Gaza, Mohammad Sakr, head of nursing at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, called on armed thugs of Islamic Jihad to stop using the medical facility…



As Trump calls for ceasefire, Moscow steps up bombing civilians in Ukraine

Vol. 89/No. 16 - April 28, 2025

The regime of Russian President Vladimir Putin has stepped up its relentless aerial assault on civilian targets in Ukrainian cities, increasing deaths and destruction. Putin is punishing the Ukrainian toilers for their intransigent defense of their country’s sovereignty. And his…


10 days: 1,278 people sign to put SWP on NJ ballot

Vol. 89/No. 16 - April 28, 2025
After discussion with Craig Honts, left, SWP candidate for N.J. lieutenant governor, Barry Barrett signed SWP petition, got Militant sub, Are They Rich Because They’re Smart? April 10.

UNION CITY, N.J. — Ten days into the fight to win ballot status for the Socialist Workers Party candidates in New Jersey — Joanne Kuniansky for governor and Craig Honts for lieutenant governor — campaigners have signed up 1,278 people…


Defend immigrants rights! Back fight to unite the working class

Vol. 89/No. 16 - April 28, 2025
Eric Simpson, second from left, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of Oakland, joined hundreds of trade unionists April 12 at Cesar Chavez labor parade and festival there.

‘We need to build a party to take political power’ SEATTLE — Eric Simpson, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of Oakland, and SWP campaign supporters joined with hundreds of trade unionists April 12 at a labor parade and festival…


Gov’t cuts federal labor mediators from 143 to 4. Is this a problem?

Vol. 89/No. 16 - April 28, 2025

Liberal media and politicians are sounding the alarm about one of President Donald Trump’s executive orders last month that eliminated the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, saying it will lead to more labor strife. Only four mediators remain at the…


Cuba’s revolutionary course and proletarian morality

Preface to new book, ‘Revolution and the Road to Peace in Colombia,’ writings by Fidel Castro
Vol. 89/No. 16 - April 28, 2025
Rebel Army column led by Ernesto Che Guevara is joined by people of Santa Clara after that Cuban city and Santiago de Cuba were liberated Jan. 1, 1959. Within hours, Batista dictatorship fell. Revolutionary war, Fidel Castro said, was won with “a minimum of weapons and a maximum of moral values.”

Below is the preface to Revolution and the Road to Peace in Colombia: The Example of the Cuban Revolution, published by Pathfinder Press, a collection of writings by Fidel Castro. Available for the first time at the Bogotá, Colombia, international…


Opposition grows to death penalty in Iran

Vol. 89/No. 16 - April 28, 2025
Protest against death penalty at Lakan prison in Iran March 18.

Weekly hunger strikes by political prisoners in Iran, “No to execution Tuesdays,” began 64 weeks ago and had spread to at least 38 prisons by April 8. The reactionary bourgeois-clerical regime executed at least 975 prisoners in 2024, the highest…