Cargill workers are locked out in Colorado

Vol. 90/No. 21 - June 1, 2026

Cargill, one of the largest beef processors in North America, locked out 1,700 members of Teamsters Local 455 in Fort Morgan, Colorado, May 20. The lockout came hours after the union voted 1,388 to 252 to reject a five-year contract…


Left backing for Luigi Mangione shows infatuation with thuggery

Vol. 90/No. 21 - June 1, 2026

Forces on the middle-class left, echoed by the liberal media, are increasingly infatuated with the use of violence against political opponents, as shown by their fascination with Luigi Mangione’s alleged slaying of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Their sugarcoating of such…



800 Walmart workers in Ontario win a contract, $5 an hour raise

Vol. 90/No. 21 - June 1, 2026
Unifor Local 252 members at Walmart warehouse in Ontario became first Walmart workers to win a union contract in North America when they voted 93% to approve agreement May 7.

MONTREAL — In a historic first, over 800 workers at Walmart’s Mississauga, Ontario, warehouse voted by 93% to approve their first union contract May 7. The members of Unifor Local 252 became the first workers to successfully win a union…


‘Militant’ fights prison bans in both Florida and Tennessee

Vol. 90/No. 21 - June 1, 2026

Following a monthslong fight by defenders of free speech and the rights of workers behind bars, the Florida Department of Corrections Literature Review Committee has reversed prison bans on seven of the 10 Militants denied to inmates there this year.…


LIRR workers end strike, look to vote on new contract offer

Vol. 90/No. 21 - June 1, 2026
Long Island Rail Road workers on picket line at Jamaica Station May 17. Many workers stopped by to show support. We’re here “to stand in unity,” a Teamster member at UPS told the Militant.

NEW YORK — After 3,500 rail unionists on the Long Island Rail Road had been on strike for three days, officials from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and union negotiators announced May 19 that an agreement had been reached and ended…



Join the SWP in campaigning for a road forward for the working class

Vol. 90/No. 21 - June 1, 2026
Paul Mailhot, party’s candidate for New York governor, and Joanne Kuniansky, candidate for U.S. Senate in New Jersey, at Feb. 22 protest in New York defending Cuban sovereignty and its socialist revolution.

Members of the Socialist Workers Party are encouraging readers of the Militant who subscribed during the party’s recent spring campaign to join them in building solidarity with union strike struggles and in organizing actions to defend Cuba from Washington’s growing…


As Israel fights to defend its right to exist, Hamas rebuilds

Vol. 90/No. 21 - June 1, 2026
Palestinians walk through Gaza City during sandstorm Feb. 13. Millions of Gazans were displaced as a result of Hamas’ practice of placing command posts, weapons, inside hospitals and in tunnels underneath people’s homes. Now Hamas thugs are preventing workers in Gaza from building apartments for tens of thousands of Palestinians in Israeli-occupied Rafah.

While Israel has dealt major blows to the reactionary, Jew-hating capitalist regime in Tehran and its key allies in the so-called axis of resistance — Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in Gaza, the Houthis in Yemen — nothing is settled. Israel…


Cuba: ‘Washington has created the crisis we face’

Vol. 90/No. 21 - June 1, 2026
Charcoal, produced to export for barbecuing in southern Europe, reaps much-needed hard currency for Cuba. Made from marabú, left, an invasive shrub on uncultivated land, its production creates jobs and clears land for agriculture. And it’s used for cooking during blackouts.

“No economy in the world, not even the most developed one, could have resisted what this small island has been able to resist,” Ariadna Cornelio Hitchman, head of legal affairs for U.S. relations in Cuba’s foreign ministry, said on television…