SWP campaign showed road forward for the working class

Strengthen unions, fight for political power
Vol. 90/No. 41 - November 16, 2026
Paul Mailhot, left, SWP candidate for New York governor, talks with participants at May Day march there. Join the party in ongoing campaign to advance working-class struggles.

“Whether the Democrats or Republicans win control of the Senate or House this year, workers will lose,” said Paul Mailhot, Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor of New York, speaking at a campaign event Oct. 31. “Capitalist politicians band together…


Pathfinder expands its titles in Arabic, sales are growing

Vol. 90/No. 41 - November 16, 2026
Cultural exhibit at Erbil Int’l Book Fair in Iraq Oct. 21-31. Inset: Maher Haramy, translator and publisher for Keena in Erbil, holds Arabic language ,Revolution and the Road to Peace in Colombia by Fidel Castro and Cuba and the Independence War in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde: Fall of the Last Colonial Empire in Africa by Víctor Dreke.

Pathfinder Press titles that have been translated into Arabic are getting around in the Arab-speaking world and beyond. At the Amman International Book Fair in Jordan, from Sept. 24 to Oct. 3, with over 400,000 visitors, four Pathfinder titles were…


French workers, youth march against high prices, school crisis

Vol. 90/No. 41 - November 16, 2026
Members of CGT union in Paris marshal action against sky-high prices, deteriorating school conditions, attacks by President Emmanuel Macron’s government on the right to protest.

Hundreds of thousands of working people and youth demonstrated across France for the third consecutive Saturday, Oct. 31, alongside similar actions in several German cities and elsewhere in Europe. Spurred by student protests against appalling conditions in the country’s schools,…


SWP discusses union, political battles with Colorado workers

Vol. 90/No. 41 - November 16, 2026

GREELEY, Colo. — A team of members and supporters of the Socialist Workers Party and the Communist League in Canada went to plant gates and workers’ doorsteps in northeast Colorado Oct. 31 to Nov. 4, looking to meet with the…


Colonial rule in Puerto Rico deepens capitalist social crisis

Vol. 90/No. 41 - November 16, 2026
Nonteaching employees protest at entrance to the University of Puerto Rico Oct. 7 to demand wage increases, union contract, after going more than 12 years without a pay raise.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — During a visit in mid-October, Militant correspondents and members of the Socialist Workers Party found working people here face similar challenges as those in the United States: the high cost of living, low wages, deteriorating…


Malcolm X: ‘It is impossible for capitalism to survive’

Vol. 90/No. 41 - November 16, 2026
Malcolm X speaks to 300 young people in Selma, Alabama, Feb. 4, 1965, as bloody battle for the right of Blacks to vote unfolded. Fighters against Jim Crow there faced cop attacks and racist violence. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee invited Malcolm to come speak.

Malcolm X Talks to Young People is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for November. It includes four talks given to audiences of young people in Ghana, Britain and the U.S. over the last nine months of his life,…


Tehran’s brutality fails to stop workers’ resistance

Vol. 90/No. 41 - November 16, 2026

Despite the fact the reactionary rulers in Iran have stepped up attacks on working people following Washington’s brutal war moves, Iran’s workers and its oppressed nationalities are increasingly speaking out and organizing protests and strikes against the deteriorating living conditions…


25, 50 and 75 years ago

Vol. 90/No. 41 - November 16, 2026

November 12, 2001 FAIRFAX, California — A public forum in defense of five Cubans recently convicted in Miami on frame-up charges of conspiracy to commit espionage for the government of Cuba was held here Oct. 20. Nearly 100 people attended…


Spanish gov’t is responsible for train crash catastrophes

Vol. 90/No. 41 - November 16, 2026

The third deadly train disaster in Spain in less than a year Oct. 28 left 69 people dead near Urda in Toledo province. The Spanish Railroad Engineers and Trainmen’s Union (SEMAF) held a one-day strike the next day, demanding the…


2026 vote shows need to fight the ‘normalization’ of Jew-hatred!

Vol. 90/No. 41 - November 16, 2026

Working people in the U.S. face the brunt of a deep-going crisis of capitalism today — soaring prices, less jobs, assaults on immigrant workers and the spread of international conflicts and wars. Under these conditions, it’s no surprise that the…