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…


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…


Get all US troops, bombers, warships out of the Mideast!

Washington seeks to dominate, plunder the region
Vol. 90/No. 15 - April 20, 2026
Bridge under construction to link Tehran and Karaj, Iran, was heavily damaged in U.S. airstrike April 2. Washington threatened to destroy Iranian infrastructure, electric grid and bridges.

Shaky ceasefire agreed on, but fighting still continues Tehran and Washington agreed to a two-week ceasefire April 7 just an hour before the deadline set by President Donald Trump. He threatened the U.S. military would bomb Iran’s electric power stations,…


Stakes for working people in fight to end Mideast war

Vol. 90/No. 15 - April 20, 2026

The shaky two-week ceasefire reached by Washington and Tehran April 7 is a further step along the course pursued by the U.S. rulers to impose a “Pax Americana” across the Middle East. The same thing was true of the shaky…


US hands off Cuba! End US economic war!

Vol. 90/No. 15 - April 20, 2026

The U.S. rulers are stepping up their six-decades-long assault on Cuba, in retaliation for working people, led by Fidel Castro, making a socialist revolution there and setting an example for toilers everywhere.  Washington is enforcing an oil blockade, threatening to…


Meatpackers struggle at JBS continues while back on the job

Vol. 90/No. 15 - April 20, 2026
UFCW Local 7 President Kim Cordova speaks to hundreds of JBS workers on status of fight with bosses April 3, translated into Spanish, Haitian Creole, Burmese, Somali. Workers cheered when she said company would pay workers back for mesh gloves and vests they were forced to buy.

GREELEY, Colo. — “JBS makes billions off our broken bodies. To them we are not worth as much as the beef going down the line,” John Trimble told the Militant. The 69-year-old Trimble says he has worked at the plant…