Some 50 people joined protest in New York July 11 demanding, “U.S. hands off Cuba!” Passersby lent their support. Similar protests are taking place worldwide, more are needed!

UN meeting, US protests say ‘End US blockade of Cuba!’

Cuba’s revolution: Example for workers worldwide

Street protests, meetings press for end to US attacks NEW YORK — Fifty people held a spirited picket line July 11 demanding an end to Washington’s brutal oil blockade, other far-reaching sanctions and war threats against Cuba. The action, sponsored…

UN Gen’l Assembly debates US blockade of Cuba, war threats

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez told U.N. General Assembly July 7 that U.S. governments’ decadeslong economic, political war has become more “ruthless in last seven months.”

“Against Cuba, the United States government is waging a multidimensional, unconventional war that has lasted for almost seven decades and has become more brutal and ruthless in the last seven months,” Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla told a special…

Demonstrations denounce ICE killings in Maine and Houston

AS WE GO TO PRESS … Six days after Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston, ICE forces chased and then killed 26-year-old Joan Sebastian Guerrero, originally from Colombia, as he left his home…

US rulers begin new assault on Tehran, demand Iran stand down

Washington has carried out daily intense military strikes on hundreds of targets in Iran since July 11, after Tehran ignored President Donald Trump’s ultimatum for the regime to issue a public statement saying the Strait of Hormuz is open and…

Sugar workers at C&H win support in ongoing fight against boss attacks

ILWU Local 142 delegation from Hawaii joined solidarity rally of 200 July 13 at C&H sugar refinery in Crockett, California, supporting 91 warehouse workers on strike since June 15.

CROCKETT, Calif. — “The longshoremen’s union has a long history fighting for the rights of sugar workers in Hawaii,” Chris West, president of International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 142 from Honolulu, told a solidarity rally of over 200 people…

Imperialist rivalries deepen as NATO powers step up war drive

The July 7-8 summit of imperialist and other governments in the NATO military alliance exposed deepening rifts between the U.S. rulers and their main rivals in Europe, despite President Donald Trump claiming there was “a lot of unity.” The gathering…

Fight to desegregate schools in the South built movement to overturn Jim Crow

Defying Ku Klux Klan threats, Bobby Cain led Black students into Clinton High School in Tennessee in 1956. He was the first Black to graduate from a desegregated school in the South.

By the mid-1950s growing numbers of African Americans were stepping forward to fight to overturn the widespread denial of voting rights and the racial segregation of public services, like city bus lines and schools across the South. Significant changes coming…

Also In This Issue

Editorials

Working-class road to stop new imperialist wars

On the Picket Line

Books of the Month

The road to build a revolutionary party in the imperialist epoch

25, 50 and 75 years ago

Features

Memorial marks lives cut short by Hamas at the Nova Festival

SWP member Rachele Fruit, right, and CL member Ólöf Andra Proppé view bus stop near Re’im kibbutz, where 27 people seeking refuge Oct. 7, 2023, were murdered by Hamas thugs.

RE’IM, Israel — On July 11, a group of us were taken by our hosts, Vered and Itzik Benayoun, to visit the site of the Nova Festival, now a memorial to the nearly 400 mainly young participants in the all-night…

SWP conference: Building a working-class party on Marxist foundations in the fight for workers power amid today’s capitalist crises and wars

Socialist Workers Party National Secretary Jack Barnes presents political report to June international party conference. With Barnes, from left are SWP leaders Paul Mailhot, Mary-Alice Waters and Steve Clark.

(first of two articles) OBERLIN, Ohio — “The Socialist Workers Party exists, born in class struggle.…

Build protests now to defend Cuba’s sovereignty! US hands off Cuba!

A Call to Action by the Socialist Workers Party

Right, 250,000 Cubans rally in front of U.S. Embassy in Havana May 22 to protest Washington’s indictment of Raúl Castro, a central leader of Cuba’s socialist revolution. Left, 100 people joined rally next day in Boston, among growing protests against U.S. war threats on Cuba.

The following statement was released May 26 by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers…

US out of the Middle East!

Several people were killed by Iranian missile strike in Beit Shemesh, Israel, March 1. Israel’s defensive war aims to prevent Tehran launching a nuclear Holocaust to wipe out Jews, Israel.

The following statement was released March 1, 2026, by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist…

SWP call to action: US hands off Cuba! End Washington’s economic blockade!

Left, Rachele Fruit, SWP candidate for U.S. Senate in Florida, joined Miami Coalition for End of the Blockade, others in Feb. 8 protest in Miami against U.S. rulers’ attacks on Cuba. Right, SWP joined Minnesota Cuba Committee, SCOTA, others in picket line in Minneapolis Feb. 9.

A Call to Action by the Socialist Workers Party The following statement was released February 7, 2026, by…

Condemn Washington’s attack on Venezuela’s sovereignty! US out now!

Statement issued Jan. 3 by National Committee of the Socialist Workers Party

Protest in Miami Jan. 3 against Washington’s violation of Venezuela’s national sovereignty with its bombing and special operations forces raid in Caracas that kidnapped country’s president.

The Socialist Workers Party condemns in the strongest possible terms Washington’s invasion of Venezuela and…

Defend Israel’s battle to prevent another Holocaust!
US troops, bases and warships out of the Mideast!

Iran’s working people are biggest curb on reactionary regime’s aims. Left, truck drivers during 11-day strike that ended June 2, largest nationwide workers’ action in decades. Right, Naama Levy, taken hostage in Oct. 7 pogrom by Hamas, whose roots go back to Nazis’ “Final Solution.”

Click below for printer-friendly pdf of this statement. Statement issued June 25 by the National Committee of…

‘There Is No Peace!’ — 1945 to world crises today: Socialist Workers Party points road forward

‘Working class needs to take power into our own hands’

“There Is No Peace!” That was the banner headline on the Aug. 18, 1945, issue of the Militant, featuring…

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…

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…

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…

‘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.