May Day rallies defend the rights of immigrants, strengthen unions

Vol. 89/No. 19 - May 19, 2025
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…


US, Beijing tariff struggle raises threat of future wars

Vol. 89/No. 19 - May 19, 2025

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…


SWP is the party working people are looking to join

Vol. 89/No. 19 - May 19, 2025
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…


Gaza protests show world that Hamas is enemy of Palestinians

Vol. 89/No. 19 - May 19, 2025
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…




25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 89/No. 19 - May 19, 2025

May 15, 2000 When Elián González was found adrift off Florida last November, “the proper procedure would have been to immediately return the child to his country of origin,” Cuban president Fidel Castro told a rally in Havana on May…



Trade conflicts point to coming crises, wars

Vol. 89/No. 19 - May 19, 2025

The capitalist rulers tell U.S. workers that their tariffs against rivals abroad are the only way to protect “our economy,” that “we’re all in this together.” But this is a lie aimed at conning us into forgoing our own class…


Hamas’ origins in Jew-hating pogroms, ties to Nazis

Vol. 89/No. 19 - May 19, 2025

Hamas isn’t now and never was a movement for Palestinian national rights. Its roots are in the reactionary Egypt-based Muslim Brotherhood and the Jew-hating course led by Amin al-Husseini, appointed grand mufti of Jerusalem by the British colonial rulers of…