US rulers to rebuild industry to make weapons for war

Vol. 90/No. 17 - May 4, 2026

“We are pivoting the Pentagon and our industrial base to a wartime footing,” War Secretary Peter Hegseth announced last November. The capitalist rulers in the U.S. know that they are far from ready for the wars that are inevitable as…


SWP presents working-class road forward at LA book fair

Vol. 90/No. 17 - May 4, 2026
Pathfinder booth at Los Angeles Times Festival of Books April 18-19 attracted many looking for answers to today’s wars, economic crises — with sales of 415 books, 107 Militant subscriptions.

LOS ANGELES — As they have for years, supporters of Pathfinder books set up a booth at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books April 18-19. One of the largest book fairs in the U.S., an estimated 150,000 attended this…


‘Militant’ fights to end weeks of bans by Florida prisons

Vol. 90/No. 17 - May 4, 2026

In a victory for the Militant and its 135 readers behind bars in Florida, the Literature Review Committee of the state’s Department of Corrections overturned the ban on Militant issue no. 10. The Militant was notified of the decision April…


Rallies in Canada protest US oil blockade of Cuba

Vol. 90/No. 17 - May 4, 2026
Rallies in Canada protest US oil blockade of Cuba

MONTREAL — Actions in solidarity with the Cuban Revolution protesting Washington’s monthslong criminal oil blockade and decades of economic war on the people of Cuba were held in cities across Canada April 19. The day of protest was called jointly…


Israel fights to defend its existence as a refuge for Jews

Vol. 90/No. 16 - April 27, 2026

Since March 2 Israel has launched airstrikes and ground attacks dealing blows to Hezbollah, after the Tehran-backed group unleashed missiles from Lebanon at civilian populations in Israel. Like its patrons in Tehran, and fellow “axis of resistance” forces in Iraq,…


Meet Leslie Dork, new on ‘Militant’

Vol. 90/No. 16 - April 27, 2026

Joining the Militant’s writing staff of full-time volunteers is Leslie Dork, a member of the Socialist Workers Party branch in Northern New Jersey. Dork joined the Young Socialist Alliance in 1970 in Cleveland, and the party later that year. She…


NY building workers rally, authorize strike

Vol. 90/No. 16 - April 27, 2026
NY building workers rally, authorize strike

NEW YORK — Thousands of apartment building workers, members of 32BJ Service Employees International Union, turned out for a boisterous strike-vote rally in the Upper East Side of Manhattan April 15. By a large show of hands they authorized the…


Exhibit shows Japanese Americans’ internment during World War II

Vol. 90/No. 16 - April 27, 2026

“Am I an American or Am I Not?” is the title of a traveling exhibit currently on display at the public library in Temecula, California. It has been showing in big cities like Boston and small ones like Clarksdale, Mississippi,…


Hungarian voters reject Orban, Moscow, as capitalist crisis grows

Vol. 90/No. 16 - April 27, 2026
Election eve opposition rally in Hungary April 11. Voters overwhelmingly rejected Viktor Orban’s pro-Moscow ruling Fidesz party, as workers, youth look to end economic, social crisis.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his Fidesz party, in power for 16 years and backed by both the Kremlin and the Donald Trump White House, were heavily defeated in elections April 12. Peter Magyar’s moderate conservative Tisza party won…


SWP NJ ballot drive finds real interest in party, program

Vol. 90/No. 16 - April 27, 2026

UNION CITY, N.J. — Two and a half weeks into the campaign to win ballot status for the Socialist Workers Party in New Jersey, SWP campaigners are finding serious interest in the party’s program and candidates as they speak out…