SWP campaigns against capitalist rulers’ drive to a third world war

Vol. 90/No. 3 - January 26, 2026
Socialist Workers Party member Laura Anderson discusses how fight for amnesty can unite the working class, strengthen unions with Daniel Subdiaz at Jan. 12 protest by Haitians in Miami.

In the days following Washington’s heavily armed incursion into Venezuela and its increasing threats against Cuba’s socialist revolution, members of the Socialist Workers Party and the Communist Leagues in Australia, Canada and the U.K. are reaching out to discuss the…


Workers face high prices, having to take part-time jobs

Vol. 90/No. 3 - January 26, 2026

The capitalist economic crisis in the U.S. continues to tighten the squeeze on working people, with jobs — especially decent-paying, full-time jobs — becoming increasingly difficult to get. Amid high prices for basic necessities, from groceries to transportation, housing, health…


Solidarity with Mississippi synagogue after arson attack

Vol. 90/No. 3 - January 26, 2026

Before dawn on Jan. 10 a Jew-hating arsonist set fire to the Beth Israel Congregation synagogue in Jackson, Mississippi, the largest in the state. Two Torah scrolls, holding the most sacred Jewish religious text, were destroyed and five others damaged…


Syrian regime steps up attacks on Kurds in Aleppo

Vol. 90/No. 3 - January 26, 2026

The Syrian government of President Ahmed al-Sharaa ordered its forces to lay siege to three largely Kurdish neighborhoods in Aleppo, the second-largest city in Syria, Jan. 6-11. They seized control of two of them, Ashrafiyah and Sheikh Maqsoud, driving out…


Moscow targets heat, power amid winter freeze in Ukraine

Vol. 90/No. 3 - January 26, 2026
Russian ballistic missiles hit apartments in industrial city of Kryvyi Rih, in eastern Ukraine Jan. 8, killing one and injuring 24. Moscow attacks residential areas, power grid hoping to demoralize Ukraine’s working people.

Moscow launched more than two dozen missiles and hundreds of drones in a major assault on Ukrainian residential areas and its power grid Jan. 13. The goal of President Vladimir Putin’s regime is to leave civilians without heat, power and…


Montreal protest: ‘Hands off Venezuela!’

Vol. 90/No. 3 - January 26, 2026

MONTREAL — Some 100 people came out to a picket at the U.S. Consulate here Jan. 11 defending Venezuela’s sovereignty and opposing Washington’s threats to attack Cuba. The action was organized by a dozen groups and promoted by the  Quebec-Cuba…


Philadelphia forum: ‘Fight deportations! Win amnesty’

Vol. 90/No. 3 - January 26, 2026
Anh Vongbandith speaks at Jan. 10 forum in Philadelphia on fight by her husband Anou and Kilmar Ábrego García against threats of deportation. At right is SWP member Ved Dookhun.

PHILADELPHIA — In order to fight effectively against exploitation and deportations of immigrant workers, “we need peaceful protesting, not agitating or throwing things. The rallies show people care,” Anh Vongbandith told a Jan. 10 Militant Labor Forum here titled “Fight…


SWP in 1938: self-determination for colonial peoples

Vol. 90/No. 2 - January 19, 2026

Below is an excerpt, “Colonial peoples,” from the Declaration of Principles adopted by the Socialist Workers Party’s founding convention in 1938. It shows the party’s political continuity in the fight against U.S. imperialism’s assault on the national sovereignty of the…


Hamas looks to destroy Israel, oppresses Palestinians in Gaza

Vol. 90/No. 2 - January 19, 2026

Determined to resume its drive to destroy Israel and eliminate all the Jews there, Hamas is using the U.S.-imposed ceasefire in Gaza to reestablish its dictatorship, attacking any Gazan who challenges its rule. On Jan. 4 Hamas thugs kidnapped Majed…