Unions join to fight gov’t call for workers to ‘self-deport’

Vol. 89/No. 17 - May 5, 2025

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Hundreds of immigrant workers in the biggest factories and other job sites in the Louisville area have received government letters saying their humanitarian parole visas are being terminated and they will face removal if they don’t “self-deport”…



Defend constitutional freedoms from attack by Democrats and Republicans

Vol. 89/No. 17 - May 5, 2025

The unqualified defense of constitutional protections to prevent government interference in our lives, our unions and in political activity is vital for workers. In the U.S. — where the ruling capitalist families ruthlessly exploit working people — free speech, freedom…


Fight to bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia home grows stronger

Vol. 89/No. 17 - May 5, 2025
Jennifer Vasquez Sura, wife of deported SMART union member Kilmar Abrego Garcia, demands his return to the U.S. outside district court hearing in Greenbelt, Maryland, April 15.

LANGLEY PARK, Md. — For the first time since his arrest by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and deportation to the notorious CECOT megaprison in El Salvador March 15, Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been able to communicate with someone outside of…



‘Fidel and Che led working people to rely on themselves’

Vol. 89/No. 17 - May 5, 2025
Che Guevara, second from left, visits factory as Cuba’s minister of industry in the early 1960s. He talked with workers about setting an example and reinforcing communist consciousness of work as a social responsibility. Along with Fidel Castro, Che was part of leadership cadres forged in struggle who led Cuban working people to take state power and begin to transform themselves as they transformed society.

Below are remarks given by Mary-Alice Waters Feb. 21 during the 2025 Havana International Book Fair at a presentation of Pathfinder’s new edition of Che Guevara on Economics and Politics in the Transition to Socialism by Carlos Tablada. The other…


Defend immigrants rights! Back fight to unite the working class

Vol. 89/No. 16 - April 28, 2025
Eric Simpson, second from left, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of Oakland, joined hundreds of trade unionists April 12 at Cesar Chavez labor parade and festival there.

‘We need to build a party to take political power’ SEATTLE — Eric Simpson, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of Oakland, and SWP campaign supporters joined with hundreds of trade unionists April 12 at a labor parade and festival…


10 days: 1,278 people sign to put SWP on NJ ballot

Vol. 89/No. 16 - April 28, 2025
After discussion with Craig Honts, left, SWP candidate for N.J. lieutenant governor, Barry Barrett signed SWP petition, got Militant sub, Are They Rich Because They’re Smart? April 10.

UNION CITY, N.J. — Ten days into the fight to win ballot status for the Socialist Workers Party candidates in New Jersey — Joanne Kuniansky for governor and Craig Honts for lieutenant governor — campaigners have signed up 1,278 people…


Washington-Beijing conflict sharpens with new tariff clash

Vol. 89/No. 16 - April 28, 2025
Joint war games by U.S., Japanese, Australian military forces in the Philippine Sea in 2020. U.S. rulers look to defend their military, financial supremacy from expanding reach of Beijing.

The battle over tariffs unfolding between Washington and Beijing, and worldwide, is driven by the determination of the capitalist rulers in every country to defend their own national interests against all others, as the crisis of their dog-eat-dog system deepens.…


Opposition to Hamas grows in Gaza and the West Bank

Vol. 89/No. 16 - April 28, 2025
Thousands march against Hamas in Beit Lahiya, Gaza, April 16. When a dozen men showed up with signs opposing disarming Hamas, protesters tore up their signs and kicked them out.

In one more reflection of the growing opposition to Hamas and its Jew-hating allies in Gaza, Mohammad Sakr, head of nursing at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, called on armed thugs of Islamic Jihad to stop using the medical facility…