Protest demands action from gov’t after stabbings of Jews

Vol. 90/No. 20 - May 25, 2026

LONDON — Thousands gathered outside the prime minister’s office at No. 10 Downing Street May 10 in response to a call by Jewish organizations and other opponents of antisemitism to show their determination to fight escalating Jew-hatred in the U.K.…


Moscow’s war threatens a new nuclear disaster at Chernobyl

Vol. 90/No. 20 - May 25, 2026
April 26, 1989, rally in Chernobyl, Ukraine, on third anniversary of nuclear meltdown. Signs say, “Down with secrets of Chernobyl!” and ask “Who is responsible?” These protests grew, joining with other struggles to forge Ukrainian independence movement.

On April 26, 1986, an explosion and a 10-day fire destroyed reactor No. 4 of the Chernobyl power plant in Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union, unleashing the world’s worst nuclear catastrophe to date. The bureaucratic Stalinist regime in…


Cuba’s people stand against escalating new US sanctions

Vol. 90/No. 20 - May 25, 2026
Solar-powered charging station, or “solinera,” in Santa Clara, Cuba, the first of its kind in the country, provides free power to workers facing blackouts caused by Washington’s oil blockade.

While millions of people in Cuba demonstrated in defense of the country’s sovereignty and socialist revolution May 1, the U.S. capitalist rulers imposed a new round of punishing sanctions, intensifying their efforts to topple the government. President Donald Trump’s administration…


‘Militant,’ books, spring fund all are over the top!

Vol. 90/No. 20 - May 25, 2026
Margaret Trowe, SWP candidate for California governor, with strikers on picket line at JBS plant in Greeley, Colorado, April 2. The SWP uses Militant, its campaigns to support union fights.

Members of the Socialist Workers Party and Communist Leagues in Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom brought home May 12 the eight-week spring campaign to win 1,300 Militant subscriptions and sell the same number of books by SWP leaders and…


Putin’s Ukraine war is ruining Russian working people

Vol. 90/No. 20 - May 25, 2026

For the first time in almost two decades, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s annual Victory Day parade celebrating the Soviet Union’s defeat of Germany in World War II had no tanks or ballistic missiles in Moscow’s Red Square May 9. And…


Supporters of Marathon strikers turn out for ‘Solidarity Monday’

Vol. 90/No. 20 - May 25, 2026
Members of United Steelworkers Local 5 on strike against Marathon refinery in Martinez, California, mount expanded solidarity picket May 11 in fight for a raise, end to forced overtime.

MARTINEZ, Calif. — Over 100 unionists, family members and other supporters of the 120 workers on strike at the Marathon refinery joined an expanded picket line here May 11. The workers, members of United Steelworkers Local 5, are in their…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 90/No. 20 - May 25, 2026

May 21, 2001 Immigrant workers are taking an increasingly important part in fighting for the unity of the working class. In face of the brutality of the capitalist rulers and their stepped-up harassment of immigrants, immigrant workers are taking the…


Join fight against bans on ‘Militant’ in Florida prisons

Vol. 90/No. 20 - May 25, 2026

The Militant won another round in its fight against a series of bans on the paper by prison authorities April 30, when the Florida Department of Corrections Literature Review Committee reversed the impoundment of issues nos. 11, 12 and 14…


‘Militant,’ Socialist Workers Party welcome new readers

Vol. 90/No. 20 - May 25, 2026

The Militant extends a warm welcome to readers who subscribed during our successful eight-week campaign to expand the paper’s reach, as well as our other goals. Many of you were struck by the paper’s explanation that today’s spreading wars are…