Locked-out refinery workers at BP win new support

Vol. 90/No. 23 - July 6, 2026

WHITING, Ind. — Ever since they were locked out by BP over three months ago, the 800 members of United Steelworkers Local 7-1 here have been on the picket line 24/7 and won a lot of support. Visitors to the…


Philadelphia UNITE HERE workers strike Sheraton Hotel

Vol. 90/No. 23 - July 6, 2026
Philadelphia UNITE HERE workers strike Sheraton Hotel

PHILADELPHIA — Some 160 workers, members of UNITE HERE Local 274, struck the Sheraton Hotel, the largest in Philadelphia, June 21. A four-day walkout last October ended without a new contract. The workers are seeking wages of $30 per hour,…


SWP holds international conference, plans to meet new opportunities

Vol. 90/No. 23 - July 6, 2026
Socialist Workers Party National Secretary Jack Barnes presents political report to June international party conference. With Barnes, from left are SWP leaders Paul Mailhot, Mary-Alice Waters and Steve Clark.

OBERLIN, Ohio — The SWP opened its 2026 International Conference here June 11-14 under a large banner reading, “The Socialist Workers Party exists, born in class struggle. Build it!” SWP National Secretary Jack Barnes, at podium, gave the political report.…


Workers discuss how to take on new attacks on immigrants in UK

Vol. 90/No. 23 - July 6, 2026
Northern Ireland Public Service Alliance union contingent joins June 13 protest in Belfast against anti-immigrant riots. U.K. parties of all stripes are pushing crackdown on immigration.

MANCHESTER, England — Anti-immigrant riots broke out for several days in parts of Northern Ireland after a June 8 brutal knife attack on Stephen Ogilvie in Belfast by Hadi Alodid, originally from Sudan. The riots occurred as both the Labour…


Quebec gov’t moves to deny childcare to asylum seekers

Vol. 90/No. 23 - July 6, 2026

MONTREAL — “The Confederation of National Trade Unions (CSN) deplores the government’s legal harassment of asylum seekers by pursuing their case all the way to the Supreme Court to restrict their access to the early childhood education and care network.…


Ultraleft thug tactics pose obstacle to protests at NJ ICE jail

Vol. 90/No. 23 - July 6, 2026
Family members, supporters rally outside Delaney Hall detention center in Newark June 21. Inset, Roberto Silveira, whose brother is held inside by ICE, told Joanne Kuniansky, SWP candidate for U.S. Senate, that Trump’s lying when he says he only uses ICE against criminals.

NEWARK, N.J. — Families of immigrants held at Delaney Hall detention center here lined up to visit their loved ones on Father’s Day June 21. Prison authorities had suspended visits for a week in a vindictive response to a hunger…


Victory! Charges against Ábrego García thrown out

Vol. 90/No. 22 - June 8, 2026

WASHINGTON — “I am grateful that today, justice has taken a step forward,” Kilmar Ábrego García said after U.S. District Judge Waverly Crenshaw Jr. dismissed criminal charges pressed by the U.S. Justice Department against him in Nashville, Tennessee, May 22.…


SWP campaigns discuss road forward for the working class

Vol. 90/No. 22 - June 8, 2026
Karla Jarquín, left, buys The Fight Against Jew-Hatred and Pogroms in the Imperialist Epoch from Socialist Workers Party member Lisa Rottach in North Miami parking lot May 23.

On actions demanding U.S. hands off Cuba, strike picket lines, and knocking on doors in working-class neighborhoods, members of the Socialist Workers Party find a growing interest in what the Militant has to say on the expanding threats of war,…


Indiana refinery workers locked out by BP stand firm

Vol. 90/No. 22 - June 8, 2026

WHITING, Ind. — “This is going to be a long one. But we are united and we’ll keep going as long as we need to,” Michelle O’Shaughnessy told the Militant on the picket line outside the BP oil refinery here…


Capitalist rulers in Canada back Washington’s assaults on Cuba

Vol. 90/No. 22 - June 8, 2026
Canadian Network on Cuba organized demonstrations against U.S. oil blockade and other attacks on Cuba in a number of cities across the country Feb. 21-22, including Toronto, above.

MONTREAL — Canada’s capitalist rulers, along with Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal Party government, are backing U.S. imperialism’s accelerating attacks on Cuba with the same goal — overthrowing Cuba’s socialist revolution. At the same time, a growing number of unions…