Abrego Garcia, union fight frame-up charges

Vol. 89/No. 24 - July 14, 2025

On June 27, Robert E. McGuire, acting U.S. attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee, approved an emergency appeal by Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a sheet metal apprentice and SMART union member from Maryland. Abrego Garcia is being held in immigration…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 89/No. 24 - July 14, 2025

July 10, 2000 Elián González, his father Juan Miguel González, and immediate family returned home to Cuba June 28, hours after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a final appeal by distant relatives who sought to keep the Cuban six-year-old in…


Socialist Workers Party offers road forward for working class

Vol. 89/No. 24 - July 14, 2025
Paul Mailhot, left, SWP candidate for mayor of New York, at May Day rally. Socialist Workers Party calls for working people to break with the Democrats, Republicans, take political power.

SWP candidate Paul Mailhot in New York: ‘All political questions are class questions’ NEW YORK — World media attention has been focused on the Democratic Party’s bourgeois socialist candidate for New York City mayor, 33-year-old Zohran Mamdani, since he won…



NATO and G7 summits reflect growing strife, threat of war

Vol. 89/No. 24 - July 14, 2025
U.S. tanks unloaded at Baltic port in Poland Jan. 18. Deepening capitalist crisis today is pushing imperialist powers, capitalist rulers to greater competition, rivalries, moves to boost military might, the search for new allies, tariff wars and the growing threat of a new world war.

The U.S. rulers’ bombing of Iranian nuclear sites and then President Donald Trump’s imposition of an Israel-Tehran ceasefire three days later deepened the threat of wider wars, political instability and trade tensions. Washington’s unilateral action — aimed at asserting its…



Walmart workers in Ontario win union, press fight for a contract

Vol. 89/No. 24 - July 14, 2025
Some of nearly 280 Walmart fleet drivers who recently joined Unifor union in Calgary and Nisku. Unifor members in Toronto are fighting for a contract against bosses’ attacks.

MISSISSAUGA, Ontario — In September 2024 workers at the Walmart distribution center on the outskirts of Toronto voted to make Unifor their union by 56%. Over 800 workers here pack and deliver products to Walmart stores all over Ontario. Now…



Thousands protest Moscow’s tyranny in the Altai region

Vol. 89/No. 24 - July 14, 2025
Thousands rallied in Gorno-Altaysk, capital of Altai Republic, June 21 against Moscow’s moves to abolish local village councils, attack rights of indigenous peoples there. Sign at right says, “Hands off Altai!” Sign in back says, “Let’s save the village for our children.”

In one of the largest expressions of social unrest since Moscow invaded Ukraine over three years ago, thousands rallied in Russia’s Altai Republic June 21 to protest Kremlin-organized “reforms” that end local self-government and attack the rights and cultural heritage…