Year: 2026

US forces out of the Middle East!
Bring the troops back home now!

Uncertainty about what will happen next in the Strait of Hormuz and in Washington’s war on Iran continues against a backdrop of deepening rivalry and shifting alliances between capitalist powers worldwide, each looking to defend their own conflicting interests. The…

Crisis facing working-class families grows as prices soar

Working-class households are being hit hard by the deepening crisis of capitalism today, squeezed by the lack of a good-paying job as well as high prices for basic necessities, from groceries to electricity, healthcare, housing, car payments, fertilizer for family…

SWP, ‘Militant’ get strong hearing at national actions

Samuel Nava, a farmworker for more than 20 years and now a landscape designer, met Rachele Fruit, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Senate, at the May Day action of 250 people in Coral Gables, Florida. Agricultural workers came on…

Defend Cuba from stepped up attacks by Washington

“Cuba is fully entitled to trade for fuel with any country, without restrictions, conditions, or questioning that contravene freedom of international trade,” Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez said April 14. Rodríguez condemned the U.S. rulers’ economic strangulation of Cuba, intensified…

May Day actions back union battles, rights of immigrants

Protests point to potential to unify the working class

Hundreds of thousands of workers in the U.S. and around the world turned out for marches, rallies and other actions called by unions and others on May Day. In the U.S. many of the actions focused on the defense of…

Minnesota small businesses petition state over losses during ICE raids

MINNEAPOLIS — Neighbors United, set up by Somali small-business owners that now includes Latino, Hmong and African American vendors, held a press conference at the state Capitol in St. Paul April 28. The group turned in petitions signed by 1,000…

Campaign to expand reach of ‘Militant,’ books, Fighting Fund: March 14 – May 12 (week seven)

4,000 hotel and restaurant workers on strike in Norway

OSLO, Norway — Striking workers in the hotel and restaurant industry mobilized for the May Day march here. They are part of an expanding nationwide walkout by over 4,000 members of the Norwegian United Federation of Trade Unions and the…

25, 50 and 75 years ago

May 14, 2001 SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The decision of the U.S. Navy to resume its military exercises and bombings on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques has touched off protests in Puerto Rico, in the United States, and…

US hands off Cuba! Defend Cuban sovereignty!

Protests are needed now in the U.S. and worldwide against suffocating new sanctions Washington has imposed on Cuba, and to demand an immediate end to the U.S. rulers’ oil blockade. These new measures intensify Washington’s relentless economic and political war…