Rachele Fruit, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. president, speaks at public meeting in London Aug. 24, organized by Communist League, at end of her weeklong visit to the U.K.

—— Endorse the Socialist Workers Party ticket of Rachele Fruit and Dennis Richter ——

‘The working class needs its own party, a party of labor’

Rachele Fruit: ‘Workers in the US, UK face common enemy’ LONDON — Rachele Fruit, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. president, ended her weeklong visit to the U.K. at a public meeting here Aug. 24, organized by the Communist League’s…

Dennis Richter: ‘Back fights by truckers, all workers!’

Dennis Richter, SWP vice presidential candidate, discusses truckers’ fight for better conditions with Shawnta Hamerter, a truck driver, at truck stop in Fort Worth, Texas, Aug. 26.

FORT WORTH, Texas — “We need to build a party of labor for all of us workers,” Dennis Richter, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. vice president, told truck driver Patrick Edgar Brooks at the Pilot truck stop here…

Rail workers battle combined forces of bosses, Canadian gov’t

MONTREAL — “We haven’t seen a class confrontation in Canada on this scale in decades,” Philippe Tessier, a Canadian National rail conductor and Teamster union strike picket captain, told a Militant Labor Forum here Aug. 24. In the final analysis,…

Defend Ukraine independence! Anti-war views spread in Russia

Workers from Independent Trade Union of Miners of Ukraine at damaged Kapitalna coal mine in Ukraine’s southeast Donetsk region. Russian missile attack Aug. 6 injured several miners.

A month after Ukrainian forces drove into the Kursk region of Russia Aug. 6, opposition to the war is growing among Russian conscripts and their families. The Ukrainian offensive is aimed at dealing blows to Moscow’s invasion led by Russian…

Workers at national hotel chains on rolling strikes, rally across the US

Hotel workers march outside Marriott hotel in San Francisco Sept. 2 during three-day strike. Some 15,000 workers are demanding higher wages, hiring more workers at largest hotel chains.

SAN FRANCISCO — More than 2,000 hotel workers, members of UNITE HERE Local 2, went on a three-day strike here Sept. 1, part of a nationwide fight against moves by hotel chains Marriott, Hyatt and Hilton to increase workloads while…

Defend Israel as a refuge against Jew-hatred and pogroms today

The cold-blooded murder of six Israeli hostages by Hamas in late August is further proof that defeating the Tehran-backed group and demolishing its command structure is essential for defending Israel’s right to exist as a refuge for Jews. And for…

Monthslong fight continues to end Florida prison ban on ‘Militant’ issue

The four-months-long fight continues to end the ban on Militant issue no. 17, imposed by prison authorities at Jackson Correctional Institution in Malone, Florida, at the end of April. The Florida Department of Corrections Literature Review Committee upheld the impoundment…

Also In This Issue

Editorials

Build solidarity with hotel, AT&T strikes

On the Picket Line

25, 50 and 75 years ago

Features

Democrats attack Constitution, weaken checks on gov’t power

President Joseph Biden announced proposals July 29 to gut the power of the U.S. Supreme Court and muzzle its justices in an attack on the constitutionally mandated role of the judiciary. Days later, Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer deepened the…

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…

Demand Washington end its economic war on Cuba! Now!

SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY NATIONAL COMMITTEE STATEMENT

Crews repair electrical grid Sept. 30 in Pinar del Rió after Hurricane Ian. There is no better moment to explain the facts and win working people to oppose U.S. economic war on Cuba.

Click below for downloadable pdfs of this article in English or Spanish The following…

Access to the Militant’s unique Ukraine coverage

The Militant’s coverage of Ukraine is unique. The paper defends the country’s right to…

‘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…

Defend Ukraine’s independence!
For defeat of Moscow’s invasion!
US troops, nuclear arms out of Europe, all of Europe!

“No to war!” protesters chant in St. Petersburg Feb. 25. More than 7,000 have been arrested as tens of thousands joined actions in 54 Russian cities against Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.

The following statement was issued March 3 by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers…

‘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.