Georgia high school students walk out to defend immigrants

Vol. 90/No. 6 - February 16, 2026

ATLANTA — “My family comes from Mexico and I can see every day how poorly immigrant workers like my parents are treated in this country,” Tri-Cities High School student Santiago Ozuna, 16, told Socialist Workers Party members Lisa Potash and…


US rulers hate Cuba out of ‘fear of Latin American revolution’

Vol. 90/No. 6 - February 16, 2026

As part of celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Fidel Castro, the central leader of Cuba’s socialist revolution, the Militant is printing excerpts of his political writings over the coming year. This one is from The Second Declaration…


Court blocks gov’t move to revoke TPS for Haitians

Vol. 90/No. 6 - February 16, 2026

On Feb. 2, federal Judge Ana Reyes blocked the Donald Trump administration from revoking Temporary Protected Status from some 350,000 Haitians in the U.S. This means they can stay and work here. In the last month a number of union-backed…


US HANDS OFF CUBA!
END WASHINGTON’S ECONOMIC BLOCKADE!

A Call to Action by the Socialist Workers Party
Vol. 90/No. 6 - February 16, 2026

The following statement was released February 7, 2026, by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, on behalf of the party’s National Committee. There’s a pressing need today for a call to action by working people to oppose…


31,000 Kaiser nurses strike over staffing in California, Hawaii

Vol. 90/No. 5 - February 9, 2026
Striking nurses picket Kaiser Hospital in Baldwin Park, near Los Angeles, Jan. 26. Some 31,000 hospital workers in California and Hawaii are fighting for safe staffing levels and a wage raise.

LOS ANGELES — Nurses and other health care workers set up picket lines at over two dozen Kaiser Permanente hospitals and hundreds of its clinics across California and in Hawaii Jan. 26, launching a strike against the Kaiser chain. The…


Tacoma nurses fight for safe staffing levels, a new contract

Vol. 90/No. 5 - February 9, 2026

TACOMA, Wash. — Hundreds of nurses, members of the Washington State Nurses Association, and their supporters picketed Tacoma General Hospital and Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital here Jan. 23, protesting management’s refusal to include safe staffing ratios for neonatal intensive care…


Kruger workers in Quebec strike for wages that offset inflation

Vol. 90/No. 5 - February 9, 2026

MONTREAL — More than 150 workers at the Kruger plant in the LaSalle neighborhood here, members of the Confederation of National Trade Unions (CSN), are on strike for the first time in 51 years. They walked out Jan. 12, after…


Join fight for amnesty for all immigrants in the US!

Unions need to lead to unify the working class
Vol. 90/No. 5 - February 9, 2026
Thousands rallied in Minneapolis Jan. 23, protesting gov’t attacks, deportations of immigrant workers. Area unions built and organized to help ensure it was a disciplined, peaceful action.

MINNEAPOLIS — Recent protests and other events unfolding in Minneapolis over the last week show both the potential for building a powerful and disciplined union-led movement to fight and win amnesty for those in the working class without papers, as…


Canada court rules gov’t use of Emergencies Act was illegal

Vol. 90/No. 5 - February 9, 2026
Police use pepper spray as they assault truckers and other protesters in Ottawa Feb. 19, 2022. Federal government used the Emergencies Act to attack free speech, right to protest.

MONTREAL — In an important and hard-fought victory for working people and defenders of political rights, Canada’s Federal Court of Appeal ruled Jan. 16 that the Liberal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s use of the draconian Emergencies Act to…