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…


Profit-driven Ohio nursing homes dump patients at homeless shelters

Vol. 90/No. 17 - May 4, 2026

“Ohio’s nursing homes are dumping patients at homeless shelters,” headlined an April 13 Signal Ohio news story. The outrageous tossing aside of a human life it describes is not something occurring just in Ohio, similar dumps have been reported elsewhere.…



‘Militant’ steps up fight against bans in Florida prisons

Vol. 90/No. 16 - April 27, 2026

Support continues to build from unionists, civil liberties groups and others demanding authorities overturn the unconstitutional ban on six issues of the Militant in Florida prisons. On April 1 the paper received notice from the Florida Department of Corrections Literature…


Cuban women protest against US rulers’ assaults

Vol. 90/No. 16 - April 27, 2026
Cuban women protest against US rulers’ assaults

Hundreds of Cuban women, answering a call by the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC), demonstrated at the Mariana Grajales Park in Havana April 7 in defense of Cuba’s socialist revolution and to demand an end to Washington’s blockade against the…



JBS strike wins better contract, stronger union in Colorado

Vol. 90/No. 16 - April 27, 2026
March 25 picket line of workers originally from Mexico and Cuba during three-week strike by 3,800 meatpacking workers, members of UFCW Local 7, at JBS plant in Greeley, Colorado.

United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 members who work at the JBS flagship beef slaughterhouse in Greeley, Colorado, voted to ratify an improved new two-year contract by 93% April 12. UFCW Local 7 President Kim Cordova said in a…