‘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…


US hands off Cuba!

Defend Cuba’s sovereignty, socialist revolution
Vol. 90/No. 21 - June 1, 2026
May Day rallies defended Cuba against Washington’s threats. In Pinar del Río province, Association of Combatants of the Cuban Revolution banner read, “Here, no one surrenders!”

US rulers escalate their attacks against Cuba Over the last week, the U.S. rulers launched a dangerous escalation of threats against Cuba. CIA Director John Ratcliffe went to the island “to deliver a message” to the Cuban government; U.S. spy…



Build protests now to defend Cuba’s sovereignty! US hands off Cuba!

A Call to Action by the Socialist Workers Party
Vol. 90/No. 21 - June 1, 2026

The following statement was released May 26 by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, on behalf of the party’s National Committee. The Socialist Workers Party, in the strongest possible terms, condemns the U.S. rulers’ accelerating acts of…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 90/No. 21 - June 1, 2026

May 28, 2001 A demonstration of 100 in Salinas, California, May 13 grew in size as it marched there. Workers drove to the action from Fresno, Palo Alto, and San Mateo. Members of the Indigenous Oaxacan Front of Mexico participated…