25, 50 and 75 years

Vol. 90/No. 39 - November 2, 2026

October 29, 2001 HAVANA — Four hundred people from 60 countries participated in the World Forum on Food Sovereignty here, convened by the National Association of Small Farmers of Cuba. A delegation from the United States included farmers from Wisconsin,…


Hotel workers use rolling strikes in Chicago Loop

Vol. 90/No. 39 - November 2, 2026
Striking members of UNITE HERE Local 1 picket the Palmer House Hilton in downtown Chicago Loop Oct. 13.

CHICAGO — Members of UNITE HERE Local 1 are continuing their fight for a contract at dozens of downtown hotels here. Workers at six of the largest hotels struck for five days Oct. 9-13, when the bosses had looked forward…


SWP is working-class alternative to bosses’ Democrats, Republicans

Vol. 90/No. 39 - November 2, 2026

As the 2026 elections near, Socialist Workers Party candidates find increasing interest in their campaigns. They offer the only class-struggle program to protect workers from the attacks we’ve faced under both Democratic and Republican administrations and the further assaults the…


Cuba takes fight against US blockade to the UN

Cuban people act to defend their socialist revolution
Vol. 90/No. 39 - November 2, 2026
Ambassador to U.N. Mike Waltz, right, speaks at U.S.-organized panel to peddle lies on Cuban Revolution, hoping to blunt effect of Oct. 27-28 U.N. vote against Washington’s blockade.

A striking report prepared by the government of Cuba detailing the U.S. government’s over six-decades-long record of attacks, sanctions and the recent oil blockade against its people will be presented and debated at a meeting of the United Nations General…


Teamsters locked out at Phillips 66 refinery in NJ

Vol. 90/No. 39 - November 2, 2026
Teamsters locked out at Phillips 66 refinery in NJ

LINDEN, N.J. — Some 385 oil refinery workers, members of Teamsters Local 877, were locked out by Phillips 66 bosses at its Bayway Refinery, the largest refinery on the East Coast, Oct. 19. Union members had voted down a contract…



Meetings worldwide protest spread of Jew-hatred, attacks

3rd anniversary of Oct. 7 Hamas pogrom in Israel
Vol. 90/No. 38 - October 26, 2026
Memorial on third anniversary of Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas pogrom against Jews in Israel, held at Bondi Beach, Australia. December 2025 attack on Jews there killed 15, wounded 40 more.

It’s been three years since Oct. 7, 2023, when Gaza-based Hamas thugs — trained, financed and armed by Tehran — swarmed into Israel and carried out the worst slaughter of Jews since the Nazis killed 6 million Jews during the…


NY yellow cab drivers are being driven to their death

Vol. 90/No. 38 - October 26, 2026

NEW YORK — Babacar Dem, a yellow cab driver originally from Senegal, died during a break in his work shift in the bathroom of a Bronx chicken shop in late August. He was the fourth cab driver to die while…


Help extend reach of ‘Militant,’ books by SWP leaders

Vol. 90/No. 38 - October 26, 2026
Sam Manuel, center, SWP candidate for U.S. Senate, and campaign supporter Marklyn Wilson talk with Amazon driver Noah Atchison in Atlanta Oct. 9. Atchison got Militant subscription and Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers Power by SWP leader Jack Barnes.

“I’m very interested in what you have to say about Cuba,” S.D. Harris, a truck driver, told Samir Hazboun, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of Washington, D.C., and campaign supporter Sarah Ullman Oct. 8. Hazboun was introducing the SWP…