Workers in Iran call for an end to deportations of Afghan migrants

Vol. 89/No. 26 - July 28, 2025
Afghans forced out of Iran, at a transit camp on their way to Afghanistan. Expulsions are “an attack on workers and the entire society,” said Iranian oil contract workers organizations.

The Iranian regime is stepping up expulsions of hundreds of thousands of Afghan immigrants in the wake of Israel’s defensive airstrikes to stop Tehran’s yearslong drive to destroy it as a refuge for Jews. These chauvinist, anti-working-class attacks on Afghans…


Join fight to free Abrego García! Stop gov’t moves to deport him!

Vol. 89/No. 26 - July 28, 2025

GREENBELT, Md. — Maryland sheet metal apprentice and SMART union member Kilmar Abrego García could face immediate deportation if he’s released from a Nashville, Tennessee, jail, where he’s being held prior to facing government frame-up charges of human smuggling. A…


‘End capitalist exploitation and threat of more wars’

Vol. 89/No. 26 - July 28, 2025

Socialist Workers Party members are discussing what workers can do to end capitalist exploitation, oppression and the growing threat of more wars, as they present the party’s election campaigns in working-class neighborhoods, on strike picket lines and elsewhere. They’re explaining…


‘The working class needs to take political power’

Vol. 89/No. 26 - July 28, 2025
Paul Mailhot, left, SWP candidate for mayor of New York, met Derrick Miles, right, at a campaign table in South Bronx July 13. “I know the Militant,” Miles said. “We discussed articles in that paper in our City College classes back in the day. I know that Malcolm X spoke highly of it.”

Thousands of workers open to discussing SWP program NEW YORK — Paul Mailhot, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of New York, and Craig Honts, SWP candidate for lieutenant governor in New Jersey, shared the platform at a Militant Labor…


25, 50, and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 89/No. 26 - July 28, 2025

July 24, 2000 PORTADOWN, Northern Ireland — Hundreds of local residents had gathered here July 9, behind razor wire and barricades erected by the British Army, and successfully prevented for the third year running a rightist Orange Order parade from…



Hospital strike ends in Oakland, workers vow to continue fight

Vol. 89/No. 25 - July 21, 2025
“We’re going back with our heads high,” NUHW shop steward Jackki Patrick, front center, told the Militant. Union is continuing fight to keep contract at Oakland hospital.

OAKLAND, Calif. — Hospital workers ended a strike at University of California Benioff Children’s Hospital here June 30 after a judge denied a motion by their union, the National Union of Healthcare Workers, for an injunction to halt the University…


25, 50, and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 89/No. 25 - July 21, 2025

July 17, 2000 SOUTH ST. PAUL, Minnesota — With two and half weeks left before workers at Dakota Premium Foods will vote to decide whether or not they will be members of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 789, tensions…


Communist League in Canada launches campaign in Quebec

Vol. 89/No. 25 - July 21, 2025
Katy LeRougetel, candidate for Montreal mayor, tells June 28 campaign forum, “Workers need to fight for our own interests.” At left is Philippe Tessier, CL candidate for mayor of St. Leonard.

MONTREAL — The Communist League launched the campaigns of Katy LeRougetel for mayor of Montreal and Philippe Tessier for mayor of the borough of St. Leonard at a lively Militant Labor Forum here June 28. LeRougetel is a member of…