Cincinnati protest says release Imam Soliman from detention

Vol. 89/No. 29 - August 18, 2025

CINCINNATI — Imam Ayman Soliman was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement here July 9, a month after his official asylum status, approved in 2018, was revoked. He is being held in the Butler County Jail, along with hundreds of…


SWP candidates get hearing at Minneapolis rally

Vol. 89/No. 28 - August 11, 2025
SWP candidates get hearing at Minneapolis rally

Kevin Dwire, center, SWP candidate for mayor of Minneapolis, and Edwin Fruit, right, the party’s candidate for City Council Ward 1, campaigned at the so-called Good Trouble rally there July 17. While many participants expressed support for the Democratic Party,…


Bosses’ parties deal blows to rights as they attack each other

Vol. 89/No. 28 - August 11, 2025
Working-class organizations are ultimate target as Democrats, Republicans attack constitutional freedoms in fights with each other today. Above, 1941 FBI raid on SWP offices and frame-up of SWP, Teamsters leaders, as U.S. imperialist rulers prepared to enter World War II.

Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence in President Donald Trump’s administration, released a long-repressed House Intelligence Committee report July 23, documenting the efforts of FBI and CIA bosses — under the presidency of Barack Obama — to fabricate and…


Workers discuss road forward in wake of deadly flood in Texas

Vol. 89/No. 28 - August 11, 2025

INGRAM, Texas — Almost a month after the devastating July 4 flood and torrential waters mowed down houses, recreational vehicles, campgrounds, cabins and giant trees along the Guadalupe River in central Texas, working people here are struggling to get their…




Iran: protests spread, as gov’t presses unity and the gallows

Vol. 89/No. 28 - August 11, 2025
Protest in southern Iran, one of over 40 actions by oil workers for higher wages, pensions and better conditions July 28. Workers vowed to protest every week until their demands are met.

The bourgeois clerical regime in Iran is stepping up its promotion of Iranian nationalism in a desperate attempt to counter the erosion of support at home. At the same time, it is moving against its critics, arresting hundreds of alleged…


Advances made in fight to win freedom for Abrego García

Vol. 89/No. 28 - August 11, 2025
Kilmar Abrego García at detention hearing in Nashville, Tennessee, June 25. Fight to win his freedom is an important battle being watched closely by workers across the country.

The fight to win freedom and the right to remain in the U.S. for Kilmar Abrego García, a SMART union sheet metal worker from Beltsville, Maryland, is being watched closely by workers and others across the country. García and members…


‘No deportations! Amnesty is way to unify the working class!’

Vol. 89/No. 28 - August 11, 2025
Over 100 protesters joined July 26 rally sponsored by SEIU Local 775 and La Resistencia against ICE raids, deportations and conditions at ICE Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington. SWP calls for amnesty for all immigrants without papers in the U.S.

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — “Hundreds of workers here have already lost their jobs,” Lindsay Aime, co-founder of the Haitian Community Help and Support Center, told John Hawkins and Ned Measel when they visited its office here July 22. Hawkins is the…


Hundreds in Tacoma, Wash., protest against deportations

Vol. 89/No. 28 - August 11, 2025

TACOMA, Wash. — Hundreds have protested in front of Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Northwest Detention Center here over the past two weeks. On July 14 demonstrators brought support for several immigrants facing immigration court hearings that day. Family members of…