Abrego Garcia returned to US, thrown in jail

Vol. 89/No. 22 - June 9, 2025

After months of fighting court orders — including from the U.S. Supreme Court — to bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to the United States, the Justice Department June 6 returned him from El Salvador where he had been imprisoned after…


‘More workers are interested in SWP campaign than in years’

Vol. 89/No. 21 - June 2, 2025
Joanne Kuniansky, right, Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor of New Jersey, brings solidarity to striking engineers picket line at New Jersey Transit station in Hoboken May 16.

OAKLAND, Calif. — The depth of interest in discussing how to deal with the crisis of capitalism workers see all around us is reflected in the response to the Socialist Workers Party election campaigns and the spring drive to win…


New protests hit Hamas in Gaza, as imperialist conflicts deepen

Vol. 89/No. 21 - June 2, 2025
March in Khan Younis, Gaza, May 19, at start of three days of protests demanding Hamas get out. The vast majority of Palestinians reject the Hamas cult of death and destruction.

In the largest protest against Hamas so far, thousands of Palestinians marched daily in Khan Younis in southern Gaza May 19-21. They chanted “Hamas, out, out!” “Hamas, you’re a bunch of losers — the people of Gaza don’t want to…


US rulers imposed martial law on Japanese in Hawaii in WWII

Vol. 89/No. 21 - June 2, 2025

The U.S. rulers imposed martial law in their Hawaiian colony after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, wiping out constitutional protections for working people there, including the right of habeas corpus. Planning for this began shortly after the end of…


Engineers at NJ Transit end strike, debate contract offer

Vol. 89/No. 21 - June 2, 2025
New Jersey Transit engineers, members of BLET union, picket outside rail yard in Morrisville, Pennsylvania, May 17. After three-day strike, they’re now debating a tentative contrac

NEW YORK — The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen union officials announced they had signed a tentative agreement with New Jersey Transit May 18, the country’s third largest commuter railroad, ending a three-day strike that impacted some 350,000 passengers…


SWP plans to host international conference in Ohio

Vol. 89/No. 21 - June 2, 2025

The Socialist Workers Party is holding an international conference at Oberlin College in Ohio June 12-14. The conference will feature reports by leaders of the SWP and classes about the party’s main programmatic resolutions and reports over the last 40…


Union-led rallies protest gov’t arrests, deportations of immigrant workers

Unions demand return of deported SMART member
Vol. 89/No. 21 - June 2, 2025

WASHINGTON — “Labor Demands Justice for Kilmar” is the headline on a flyer for a May 22 rally — postponed at the last minute by forecasted heavy wind and rain, to be rescheduled shortly. It demands the U.S. government bring…


SWP continuity on Ukraine’s fight for self-determination

Vol. 89/No. 21 - June 2, 2025

As candidates and members of the Socialist Workers Party campaign across the country, they get out the truth about Moscow’s murderous war against the people of Ukraine and rally workers to join in defending Ukraine’s sovereignty. They take the weekly…


Bakers protest in Iran: ‘The gov’t broke its promises!’

Vol. 89/No. 21 - June 2, 2025
“We are bakers, not slaves,” bakery owners and workers said at protests across Iran May 17-18.

Bakery owners and workers in at least nine cities in Iran protested May 17 and 18 over rising costs, delays in government payments of subsidies aimed at keeping bread prices low, and frequent power outages that ruin production. Bread is…


V.I. Lenin: Imperialism is epoch of crises, wars and revolutions

Vol. 89/No. 21 - June 2, 2025
Sailors on cruiser “Aurora” come over, join workers, peasants insurrection led by Bolsheviks in Petrograd, Russia, 1917. V.I. Lenin said Russian Revolution opened door to world revolution.

This feature is an excerpt from “Capitalism’s Long Hot Winter Has Begun,” by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party. It’s the title article in New International no. 12. Issues no. 7, 10, 11 and 12 of the…