‘They’re our co-workers,’ Wis. rally for Haitian immigrants says

Vol. 89/No. 17 - May 5, 2025

NEW LONDON, Wis. — Hundreds of Haitian immigrants in this small town in eastern Wisconsin are threatened with deportation following a Department of Homeland Security order March 25. It cancelled the government’s humanitarian parole program for immigrants from Cuba, Haiti,…


Moscow claims Easter ‘truce,’ then bombs Ukraine cities

Vol. 89/No. 17 - May 5, 2025
Moscow claims Easter ‘truce,’ then bombs Ukraine cities

After more than three years of murderous war on the Ukrainian people, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared a 30-hour unilateral ceasefire over the Easter weekend. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that although the air-raid sirens were silent, Moscow’s forces continued…


Israel: Tehran moves to get nuclear weapons threaten a new Holocaust

Vol. 89/No. 17 - May 5, 2025

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said repeatedly that Tehran acquiring nuclear weapons is an impermissible “red line” for Israel that it will not permit. As U.S. and Iranian government representatives began holding meetings on restricting Tehran’s nuclear program April…


Over 200 at Montreal protest say ‘Stop police abuse’

Vol. 89/No. 17 - May 5, 2025

MONTREAL — More than 200 demonstrators gathered at Ovila-Legare Park in the east end here April 6 to protest the police killing of 29-year-old Abisay Cruz, the father of a 9-year-old son. Carrying signs like “Justice, stop abuse by the…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 89/No. 17 - May 5, 2025

May 1, 2000 “The misery that you described in Latin America — the attacks on public education, the growing or at least persistent levels of poverty, the sell-off of the national patrimony of our countries to financial capital, the military…


Letters

Vol. 89/No. 17 - May 5, 2025

Appreciation of Omari Musa Just a note of appreciation for Omari Musa, memorialized in the April 21 issue of the Militant. My husband and I got to know Omari over several years as our guest, and at political activities. Never…



No deportations! Amnesty for all immigrant workers in US!

Vol. 89/No. 17 - May 5, 2025
In Miami, Rachele Fruit, right, and Chuck Guerra, supporters of SWP mayoral candidate Laura Anderson, discussed demand of amnesty for immigrants at “National Day of Action” April 19.

‘More workers see SWP as party they’re seeking’ “We are presenting the working-class road to take political power,” Norton Sandler, Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor of California, told a campaign rally in Los Angeles April 13. The SWP is…


Israeli victory over Hamas is in the interest of all workers

Vol. 89/No. 17 - May 5, 2025

Blows dealt by Israel in its war to decisively defeat Hamas are aimed at preventing the Nazi-like outfit from carrying out its oft-repeated threats to continue launching pogroms against Jews until it achieves another Holocaust. These advances are reverberating across…


17 days: 2,213 sign to put SWP on NJ ballot

Vol. 89/No. 17 - May 5, 2025
“It’s going to take us standing together,” Kim Kahoun, retired member of operating engineers union, told Craig Honts, SWP candidate for New Jersey lieutenant governor, outside Walmart in Hammonton April 19.

UNION CITY, N.J. — Almost 1,000 people signed up in one week, April 14-21, to put the Socialist Workers Party candidates in New Jersey, Joanne Kuniansky for governor and Craig Honts for lieutenant governor, on the ballot. This brings the…