The road to build a revolutionary party in the imperialist epoch

Vol. 90/No. 26 - July 27, 2026
V.I. Lenin, central leader of Bolshevik Party in Russia, speaks in May 1920. Revolution brought workers and peasants to power there. The SWP aims to build on this example in the U.S.

The Turn to Industry: Forging a Proletarian Party by Socialist Workers Party National Secretary Jack Barnes is one of the Books of the Month. Barnes has led the political course of the SWP to build a communist party whose members…


Working-class road to stop new imperialist wars

Vol. 90/No. 26 - July 27, 2026

From Washington’s war against Iran, to Beijing’s military expansion in the Pacific, Moscow’s war to conquer Ukraine, and squabbles over who will dominate Europe, the capitalist rulers worldwide are preparing for new wars to redivide the world for their profit…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 90/No. 26 - July 27, 2026

July 30, 2001 A classified Pentagon strategy document elevates “homeland defense” into one of the four pillars of U.S. imperialist military doctrine and gives the military domestic duties in battling terrorism. The rulers know they must confront working people who…


UN meeting, US protests say ‘End US blockade of Cuba!’

Cuba’s revolution: Example for workers worldwide
Vol. 90/No. 26 - July 27, 2026
Some 50 people joined protest in New York July 11 demanding, “U.S. hands off Cuba!” Passersby lent their support. Similar protests are taking place worldwide, more are needed!

Street protests, meetings  press for end to US attacks NEW YORK — Fifty people held a spirited picket line July 11 demanding an end to Washington’s brutal oil blockade, other far-reaching sanctions and war threats against Cuba. The action, sponsored…


UN Gen’l Assembly debates US blockade of Cuba, war threats

Vol. 90/No. 26 - July 27, 2026
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez told U.N. General Assembly July 7 that U.S. governments’ decadeslong economic, political war has become more “ruthless in last seven months.”

“Against Cuba, the United States government is waging a multidimensional, unconventional war that has lasted for almost seven decades and has become more brutal and ruthless in the last seven months,” Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla told a special…


Demonstrations denounce ICE killings in Maine and Houston

Vol. 90/No. 26 - July 27, 2026

AS WE GO TO PRESS … Six days after Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston, ICE forces chased and then killed 26-year-old Joan Sebastian Guerrero, originally from Colombia, as he left his home…


US rulers begin new assault on Tehran, demand Iran stand down

Vol. 90/No. 26 - July 27, 2026

Washington has carried out daily intense military strikes on hundreds of targets in Iran since July 11, after Tehran ignored President Donald Trump’s ultimatum for the regime to issue a public statement saying the Strait of Hormuz is open and…


Sugar workers at C&H win support in ongoing fight against boss attacks

Vol. 90/No. 26 - July 27, 2026
ILWU Local 142 delegation from Hawaii joined solidarity rally of 200 July 13 at C&H sugar refinery in Crockett, California, supporting 91 warehouse workers on strike since June 15.

CROCKETT, Calif. — “The longshoremen’s union has a long history fighting for the rights of sugar workers in Hawaii,” Chris West, president of International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 142 from Honolulu, told a solidarity rally of over 200 people…


Imperialist rivalries deepen as NATO powers step up war drive

Vol. 90/No. 26 - July 27, 2026

The July 7-8 summit of imperialist and other governments in the NATO military alliance exposed deepening rifts between the U.S. rulers and their main rivals in Europe, despite President Donald Trump claiming there was “a lot of unity.” The gathering…