Moscow drone strikes kill 12 Ukraine coal miners

Vol. 90/No. 6 - February 16, 2026
Moscow drone strikes kill 12 Ukraine coal miners

Drone strikes by Moscow killed 12 coal miners and injured 16 more in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region Feb. 1. In the “double tap” attack, the Russian pilot of an Iranian-made drone targeted a bus with workers coming off their shift from…


CL candidate Hugo Wils looks for workers to take state power

Vol. 90/No. 6 - February 16, 2026
Hugo Wils, Communist League candidate for Parliament in Gorton and Denton constituency, interviewed by Politics Joe internet reporter at Birmingham refuse strikers picket line Jan. 30.

MANCHESTER, England — “The Communist League explains that the only way to prevent another world war and the mounting devastation workers face, is for the working class to take political power,” Hugo Wils, the CL’s candidate in the Gorton and…


US HANDS OFF CUBA!
END WASHINGTON’S ECONOMIC BLOCKADE!

A Call to Action by the Socialist Workers Party
Vol. 90/No. 6 - February 16, 2026

The following statement was released February 7, 2026, by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, on behalf of the party’s National Committee. There’s a pressing need today for a call to action by working people to oppose…


Court blocks gov’t move to revoke TPS for Haitians

Vol. 90/No. 6 - February 16, 2026

On Feb. 2, federal Judge Ana Reyes blocked the Donald Trump administration from revoking Temporary Protected Status from some 350,000 Haitians in the U.S. This means they can stay and work here. In the last month a number of union-backed…


US rulers hate Cuba out of ‘fear of Latin American revolution’

Vol. 90/No. 6 - February 16, 2026

As part of celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Fidel Castro, the central leader of Cuba’s socialist revolution, the Militant is printing excerpts of his political writings over the coming year. This one is from The Second Declaration…


Georgia high school students walk out to defend immigrants

Vol. 90/No. 6 - February 16, 2026

ATLANTA — “My family comes from Mexico and I can see every day how poorly immigrant workers like my parents are treated in this country,” Tri-Cities High School student Santiago Ozuna, 16, told Socialist Workers Party members Lisa Potash and…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 90/No. 6 - February 16, 2026

February 12, 2001 Over the past few months Russian president Vladimir Putin has taken measures to increase Russia’s leverage over neighboring countries, particularly Georgia and Ukraine, which were once republics of the former Soviet Union. Russia’s state-owned gas companies shut…


The SWP is the peace party in the working class

Vol. 90/No. 6 - February 16, 2026

Growing numbers of workers are looking for the way to bring an end to today’s wars and prevent even more deadly conflicts. Workers’ desire to live in peace is founded on the fact the working class has no interest in…


Strike by 31,000 Kaiser nurses in 2nd week in California, Hawaii

Vol. 90/No. 6 - February 16, 2026

LOS ANGELES — The strike by some 31,000 Kaiser nurses and other health care workers, members of the United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals, in California and Hawaii entered its second week Feb. 2. The central issue…