The working class needs to take political power!

Vol. 89/No. 40 - November 10, 2025
SWP campaign rally in New Jersey. From left, Craig Honts, SWP candidate for N.J. lieutenant governor; Joanne Kuniansky, for governor; Paul Mailhot, for mayor of New York City.

Mamdani aims to suck workers back into the Democratic Party NEW YORK — Amid growing national and international attention focused on the 2025 New York City elections, there’s only one candidate for mayor offering a working-class road forward, that’s Paul…


As capitalist crisis deepens, workers need our own party

Vol. 89/No. 40 - November 10, 2025

Working people face a world of increasing social crisis and boss assaults on our living and working conditions and government attacks on constitutional rights. The capitalist system, with its intensified economic conflicts and military rivalries, is marching toward another world…


Back fight to destroy Hamas, defend Israel as refuge for Jews

Vol. 89/No. 40 - November 10, 2025

Hamas’ repeated attacks on Israeli soldiers, its delays in returning the bodies of hostages, its refusal to disarm and its brutal murders and repression against Palestinians in Gaza are no surprise. The “ceasefire” brokered by the U.S. government has changed…


US hands off Venezuela! US rulers’ fleet in the Caribbean

Vol. 89/No. 40 - November 10, 2025

With dozens of warships and planes, and thousands of U.S. troops deployed to Puerto Rico, in the Caribbean and the Pacific coast, the Trump administration is beating the war drums threatening military action to topple the Nicolás Maduro government in…




UN overwhelmingly condemns US economic war on Cuba

Vol. 89/No. 40 - November 10, 2025
UN overwhelmingly condemns US economic war on Cuba

UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. General Assembly Oct. 29 adopted a resolution by an overwhelming margin calling on Washington to end its more than six-decade-long economic war against Cuba. Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez reported that “over the past weeks…


Union airline cabin cleaners in San Francisco protest suspensions

Vol. 89/No. 40 - November 10, 2025
Airline cabin cleaners picket San Francisco International Airport Oct. 22, after 14 workers were suspended for trying to meet with bosses over unsanitary working conditions, back pay.

SAN FRANCISCO — Airline cabin cleaners picketed at the San Francisco International Airport Oct. 22 against the suspension of 14 workers by Unifi, the contractor that hires cleaners for United Airlines planes. The suspended workers, members of SEIU United Service…


Agency workers reinforce UK bin workers strike

Vol. 89/No. 40 - November 10, 2025

BIRMINGHAM, England — Seven months into their strike at the council-run refuse depots here, hundreds of refuse workers, members of Unite the Union, are winning the support of temporary workers hired by agencies to fill their jobs. “A growing number…


Gov’t threatens to deport Abrego García to Liberia

Vol. 89/No. 40 - November 10, 2025

WASHINGTON — As this issue of the Militant goes to press, there are late-breaking developments in Kilmar Abrego García’s case. Efforts to deport him to Liberia by Oct. 31 have been delayed. U.S. District Court Judge Paula Xinis in Maryland…