Solidarity with flight attendants fight!

Vol. 88/No. 16 - April 22, 2024

The Association of Flight Attendants union called protests at nearly 20 airports in the United States, Guam and the United Kingdom for April 11. It’s one of many protests the three flight attendants’ unions have called in their hard-fought battle…


Endorse Rachele Fruit for president!

Vol. 88/No. 15 - April 15, 2024

We ask readers of the Militant to endorse the campaign of Rachele Fruit, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for president! Join efforts to win others to do so. Joseph Biden and Donald Trump garner support among their class, the capitalist…


For workers’ solidarity, amnesty for immigrants!

Vol. 88/No. 14 - April 8, 2024

The news is full of clashes over immigration policy between capitalist presidential candidates Joseph Biden, Donald Trump and now Robert Kennedy Jr. These conflicts obscure the fact that the fundamental division on this question is between the two contending classes,…


For a labor party, based on the unions

Vol. 88/No. 13 - April 1, 2024

For decades the ruling capitalist families have governed through a two-party shell game, keeping workers tied to voting for the “lesser evil” between the bosses’ parties, the Democrats and Republicans. A working-class alternative needs to be built. It begins with…


Fight for workers control of production

Vol. 88/No. 7 - February 19, 2024

Fighting for workers to take control of production and transportation, including the railroads, is vital to protecting our lives and limbs and extending that protection to all who live near the plants, rail tracks and mines where we work. In…


Join flight attendants’ rallies Feb. 13, build union solidarity!

Vol. 88/No. 4 - January 29, 2024
Flight attendants at LaGuardia Airport, New York, after union members voted 99.4% Aug. 30 to authorize strike in contract fight.

Working-class solidarity is crucial to strengthen today’s union struggles and build a more powerful labor movement. Flight attendants are urging fellow workers to join their picket lines at 30 airports worldwide Feb. 13 as part of the fight for new…


End Washington’s economic war on Cuba!

Vol. 88/No. 3 - January 22, 2024

The fight to end the brutal economic, trade and financial war against the Cuban people waged by the U.S. capitalist rulers and their government in Washington is deeply in the interests of workers and our unions. This punishing embargo is…


Defend sovereignty of Israel and Ukraine

Vol. 88/No. 2 - January 15, 2024

Moscow’s murderous war on Ukraine, its culture and its people, and the Tehran-sponsored Hamas pogrom seeking to smash Israel and kill as many Jews as possible are two watershed events whose ramifications effect politics worldwide. Both are deadly threats to…


Constitutional rights fight key in class struggle

Vol. 88/No. 2 - January 15, 2024
FBI raids Socialist Workers Party headquarters in Minneapolis June 1941, as Roosevelt administration led assault on constitutional freedoms to silence opposition in labor movement to U.S. rulers’ preparations for World War II.

Defending constitutional freedoms from attack by the capitalist rulers is at the center of the class struggle. That fact is borne out by the latest attack on Donald Trump, barring him from the Colorado and Maine ballots. The unqualified defense…


Defeat of Hamas, fight against Jew-hatred are union business

Vol. 87/No. 47 - December 18, 2023

Everything the bosses and their governments do is aimed at protecting their investments, markets and profits and their cutthroat national interests against rival capitalist regimes. Workers have an opposite class standpoint — we are one international class of toilers with…