Communist League in Canada: Break with the bosses’ parties

Vol. 89/No. 19 - May 19, 2025
Philippe Tessier, center right, rail worker and Communist League candidate, speaks with locked-out cement workers in Montreal May 1. “We need to defend our class interests,” he said.

MONTREAL — “When the April 28 federal election was called in March by Mark Carney, who became Canada’s new Liberal prime minister when Justin Trudeau resigned, two counterposed roads faced the unions,” Philippe Tessier, the Communist League candidate for Parliament…


Havana May Day march celebrates socialist revolution

Vol. 89/No. 19 - May 19, 2025
Havana May Day march celebrates socialist revolution

More than 600,000 working people marched in Havana May 1, International Workers Day, and tens of thousands more paraded through other cities and towns across Cuba in a massive celebration and expression of pride in their socialist revolution and determination…


Ukraine unions on May Day: Defend national sovereignty

Vol. 89/No. 19 - May 19, 2025

As part of Moscow’s ongoing missile and drone attacks on Ukrainian cities and workplaces, Russian military forces attacked the mining towns of Dobropillia April 30 and Pavlohrad April 25, where three were killed and 15 injured. The Pavlohrad coal complex…


UK court: ‘women’ are a biological fact, not a gender

Vol. 89/No. 19 - May 19, 2025

LONDON — In an issue with big stakes for the working class, the Supreme Court of the U.K. here ruled April 16 that the words “sex,” “woman” and “man” refer to biological facts. The group For Women Scotland challenged the…



50 years since defeat of US rulers in Vietnam

Vol. 89/No. 18 - May 12, 2025

Fifty years ago, the last U.S. troops were expelled from Vietnam, airlifted from the roof of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. Against huge odds, the 30-year struggle of the Vietnamese people for independence led to Washington’s defeat after interventions by…


Gov’t, thugs attack rally in the Dominican Republic

Vol. 89/No. 18 - May 12, 2025

Despite threats by the government of President Luis Abinader and provocations by pro-government right-wing groups, over 1,000 people marched in Santo Domingo April 27 to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the popular upsurge that fought to restore a constitutional government…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 89/No. 18 - May 12, 2025

May 8, 2000 The widely presumed fact that the reactionary South Korean regime executed thousands of political prisoners and civilians without a trial during the years surrounding the 1950-53 Korean War have been verified through recently released “top secret” documents…


SWP NJ ballot fight at 2,630 signatures, only 570 to go!

Vol. 89/No. 18 - May 12, 2025
“Amazon workers are trying to get a union,” Jose Rentas, who had worked there, told Joanne Kuniansky, SWP candidate for New Jersey governor, as he signed petition to put her on ballot.

SOMERDALE, N.J. — “The Socialist Workers Party is in a fight to be on the ballot,” Joanne Kuniansky, SWP candidate for governor of New Jersey, told working people during two days of campaigning in the southern part of the state…