Striking school workers at Hawkesbury, Ontario, Nov. 7. Gov’t. backed off anti-strike law.

Workers in US, Canada fight boss, gov’t attacks

School workers defeat Ontario gov’t attack on right to strike

TORONTO — In a major victory for working people and our unions, 55,000 education support workers, members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, ended their two-day walkout in Ontario, after forcing the Conservative provincial government to back down from…

Workers in US, Canada fight boss, gov’t attacks

White House says Congress would prevent any rail strike

LINCOLN, Neb. — “We surprised Katie Farmer this morning, she did not expect us to greet her with our contract demands — safer working conditions and sick-days-time-off,” Jakob Forsgren, a welder and track repair worker and chair of local Lodge…

Democrats’ attacks on rights at heart of US class struggle

Former FBI directors Robert Mueller, left, and his replacement James Comey, June 21, 2013. Both served as lead special prosecutors in Democrats’ witch hunt against President Donald Trump. Democratic officials are considering new prosecutor to try to stop him if he runs again.

Throughout the final days of the 2022 campaign, Democrats centered their fire on former President Donald Trump. They claim “democracy itself” is threatened if he ever holds office again. Before Trump was even elected in 2016, Democrats unleashed the FBI…

Two months in, support grows for Iran protests

In the face of the “nationwide protests and uprising of the people of Iran for almost two months,” the Teachers’ Union in Kurdistan province stated Nov. 7, the Iranian government’s “use of naked violence has so far resulted in hundreds…

Defend Ukraine independence! Russian soldiers oppose Putin’s war

Thousands of Russian conscript soldiers confront Gen. Kirill Kulakov, in hat, at Kazan training base in southwest Russia. They protested treatment by the brass, refused to be deployed to front lines. Chants included, “Get out of here!” “Shame on you!” “Down with Putin’s regime!”

Determined to defend their country’s sovereignty, working people in Ukraine have pushed back assaults by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s forces. The bloody consequences of the war are fueling the struggle between working people and Putin’s capitalist government, with resistance growing…

For 30th time, UN denounces US gov’t embargo on Cuba

Protesters march from Times Square to United Nations building in New York Oct. 29 demanding an end to Washington’s economic, financial and trade war against Cuba.

UNITED NATIONS — For the 30th time since 1992, the United Nations General Assembly Nov. 3 voted overwhelmingly to call for “ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba.” The resolution passed…

Expand the reach of Socialist Workers Party, the ‘Militant’

Nana and Tyler McChristian talk with SWP member Leroy Watson, right, in Lake Station, Indiana, Oct. 30. “The Militant sounds like just what we need,” Nana said, and asked for extra subscription forms. “I’ve got friends who work in the steel mill who will be interested.”

Socialist Workers Party candidates and supporters used the final days before the Nov. 8 elections to discuss with fellow working people what we can do together to stand up to bosses’ moves to push the deepening capitalist crisis onto our…

Also In This Issue

Editorials

Defeat of Ontario law is victory for all workers

Books of the Month

The Jewish question can only be resolved by the working class

25, 50 and 75 years ago

Features

UK events discuss Cuba’s response to 1962 October ‘missile’ crisis

London meeting Oct. 30 marks 60th anniversary of Cuban Missile Crisis. From left, Cuban Ambassador Bárbara Montalvo; translator Beatriz Muñoz; Jonathan Silberman, director of Pathfinder Books and leader of Communist League; Miriam Palacios, Cubans in the U.K.

LONDON — In October 1962, Washington pushed the world to the edge of nuclear war as it drove to overturn the Cuban Revolution. Meetings in Manchester and London marked the 60th anniversary of what has become known as the Cuban…

Forging a proletarian party in the class struggle today

Socialist Workers Party uses Marxist program and party’s experiences to set course

American Airlines flight attendants protest at Dallas-Fort Worth airport Sept. 5, 2023. There has been a renewal of fights and solidarity activity by workers, unionists in U.S.

“Every class struggle is a political struggle.” With that statement Jack Barnes, national secretary of…

The fight against Jew-hatred and pogroms in the imperialist epoch

Stakes for the international working class

Pogroms, yesterday and today. Top, Hamas parades Jewish man murdered by death squad Oct. 7 past cheering supporters in Gaza City. Massacre in southern Israel was deadliest single attack on Jews since Hitler’s “Final Solution.” Bottom, using what Bolshevik leader V.I. Lenin called “the most savage and furious methods,” tsarist-inspired pogromists in 1906 murdered 80 Jews in Belostok, in what is now Poland. Photo shows Jewish family after assault.

Below is the opening chapter by Socialist Workers Party leader Dave Prince of the new book, The Fight Against…

Defend Israel’s right to exist as refuge for Jews!
Condemn Jew-hating pogrom!

The record of the 'Militant' and the Socialist Workers Party

SWP campaign joined opponents of Jew-hatred in rally at University of California in Berkeley March 11 in defense of free speech, against shutdown of Jewish student meeting there Feb. 26.

Click on the links below to read news, opinion and background historical coverage of the events in Israel…

Opposing US ruling-class assaults on freedoms protected by the Constitution

Left, President Joseph Biden, speaking May 31 at the White House, called Donald Trump supporters “semi-fascists” and “MAGA Republicans” to justify targeting his constitutional rights. Trump was found guilty May 30 in politically concocted trial violating his Sixth Amendment right “to know the nature of the charges” and to an impartial jury. Yet Biden urged no one to criticize “our justice system.” Right, Florida, August 2022. Armed raid by Justice Department on Trump home in Mar-a-Lago, trampling protections against unreasonable searches and seizures. Under bourgeois regimes, “all suppression of political rights and freedom, no matter whom they’re directed against at the start, in the end inevitably bear down upon the working class,” communist leader Leon Trotsky said in 1939.

“Opposing US rulers’ assaults on freedoms protected by the Constitution and their use of the political…

‘A genuine revolution means leading the millions’

Class struggle in the US today, the Cuban Revolution and building a proletarian party

April 25 book presentation in Havana at headquarters of Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples. Inset, from left, Mary-Alice Waters; ICAP leader Noemí Rabaza, who chaired and spoke. In Cuba, Rabaza said, the government represents workers’ class interests not those of the capitalists. “What Noemí says is important,” Waters noted in discussion period. Cuba’s socialist revolution is a beacon worldwide and sets the example for working people in the U.S., too. “Alone we’ll be defeated. Fighting together, we can win,” Waters ended.

The following are the remarks by Mary-Alice Waters at an April 25 presentation in Havana of the book…

‘Cuban Revolution: a challenge to US imperialism’

Cuban representative speaks on US economic war, campaign of lies against socialist revolution

BY MARTÍN KOPPEL, MARY-ALICE WATERS, AND RÓGER CALERO NEW YORK — Carlos Fernández de Cossío, head of…

Cuba and Chernobyl

This Cuban documentary produced in 2006 tells the story of the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe in Ukraine and Cuba’s exemplary internationalist medical program that treated more than 25,000 victims.