UK refuse workers strike in ninth week, wins support

Vol. 89/No. 20 - May 26, 2025

BIRMINGHAM, England — The strike by hundreds of refuse workers here, members of the Unite union, has entered its ninth week and is winning support. Eleven drivers at Perry Barr, one of three refuse depots, who were previously crossing the…


New Zealand meeting calls for ‘U.S. hands off Cuba!’

Vol. 89/No. 20 - May 26, 2025
The U.S. is increasing attacks on Cuba, Luis Morejón Rodríguez, Cuba’s ambassador to New Zealand, said April 27, with new sanctions against countries that request medical aid from Cuba.

AUCKLAND, New Zealand — Luis Morejón Rodríguez, Cuba’s ambassador to New Zealand, called for support from a gathering of 25 people here April 27 for Cuba’s fight against the “economic strangulation” imposed by the U.S. rulers’ 60-plus-years of economic war…


UK forum: ‘VE Day events are about preparations for war’

Vol. 89/No. 20 - May 26, 2025

LONDON — “The celebrations of Victory in Europe Day marking the end of the second imperialist world war there, in London, Moscow and elsewhere in the past few days are not about history,” Communist League leader Catharina Tirsén told a…



SWP campaign, ‘Militant,’ books reach thousands

Vol. 89/No. 20 - May 26, 2025
Laura Anderson, SWP candidate for mayor of Miami, introduces Jim St. Louis to the Militant, books by SWP leaders at Little Haiti Book Festival May 4. “Amazing! We need this,” he said.

OAKLAND, Calif. — Members of the Socialist Workers Party, and of the Communist Leagues in Australia, Canada and the U.K., are organizing to complete the spring campaign to win 1,300 Militant subscribers, sell a similar number of books by revolutionary…



Mali protests demand end to military rule, junta bans politics

Vol. 89/No. 20 - May 26, 2025

Defying threats by Mali’s dictatorial military government, hundreds of people took to the streets of Bamako, capital of this west African nation, May 3 to protest the announcement by the regime that junta ruler Assimi Goita would be named as…


Working class can stop imperialism’s relentless march to fascism and war

Vol. 89/No. 20 - May 26, 2025

Below is from the opening section of “Imperialism’s March Toward Fascism and War,” a talk by Socialist Workers Party National Secretary Jack Barnes, addressing the objective situation and challenges facing working people today. It’s the lead article in New International…


Support Israel’s drive to prevent new pogroms by Hamas, Tehran

Vol. 89/No. 20 - May 26, 2025

Israel is taking the next steps to defeat Hamas, amid differences with Washington over the course of the war — fought to defend Israel’s existence — as well with the U.S. government’s moves across the Middle East. In the year…


US rulers fight to keep hold on the imperialist world ‘order’

Vol. 89/No. 20 - May 26, 2025
Russian ballistic missiles ripped through Sumy, Ukraine, April 13, killing at least 35 people and wounding 84. Washington seeks to lay groundwork for alliance with Moscow against Beijing.

Since Donald Trump retook the presidency earlier this year, he’s said the goal of his administration is to resolve the wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, use tariffs to improve U.S. bosses’ profits worldwide and upgrade the U.S. military…