Defending Israel’s existence amid today’s crises

Vol. 89/No. 21 - June 2, 2025

Israel’s fight to defend its existence as a refuge from Jew-hatred and pogroms is at the center of the intensifying rivalries gripping the world’s major capitalist powers today. For the working class, the defense of Israel’s existence is a key…


Back Ukraine’s fight to defend its nat’l sovereignty

Vol. 89/No. 21 - June 2, 2025
Rescuers recover bodies of nine passengers from shuttle bus targeted by Russian drone near Sumy, Ukraine, May 17. Putin regime’s war plan is attacking Ukrainian civilians without letup while raising maximalist demands that make ceasefire pushed by Washington, Kyiv impossible.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is pursuing his regime’s murderous war aimed at ending Ukraine’s right to exist as a sovereign state. He has feigned interest in calls by President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for peace talks, while…


US gov’t threatens to cancel right to habeas corpus workers need

Vol. 89/No. 21 - June 2, 2025
For decades, tens of thousands of Japanese toiled on sugar plantations in Hawaii. In World War II, U.S. rulers imposed martial law, ended habeas corpus for Japanese and all workers.

Top officials in the Donald Trump administration say they’re leaning toward suspending the constitutionally protected right of habeas corpus, the inalienable right of all people — U.S. citizens or not — to challenge their arrest in court. The threat comes…



25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 89/No. 21 - June 2, 2025

May 29, 2000 Two counterposed class perspectives on health care, social security and pensions were put forward this past week. Presidential candidate George W. Bush made proposals for a transformation away from Social Security and Medicare. Democrat Vice President Albert…


UK forum: ‘VE Day events are about preparations for war’

Vol. 89/No. 20 - May 26, 2025

LONDON — “The celebrations of Victory in Europe Day marking the end of the second imperialist world war there, in London, Moscow and elsewhere in the past few days are not about history,” Communist League leader Catharina Tirsén told a…




SWP campaign, ‘Militant,’ books reach thousands

Vol. 89/No. 20 - May 26, 2025
Laura Anderson, SWP candidate for mayor of Miami, introduces Jim St. Louis to the Militant, books by SWP leaders at Little Haiti Book Festival May 4. “Amazing! We need this,” he said.

OAKLAND, Calif. — Members of the Socialist Workers Party, and of the Communist Leagues in Australia, Canada and the U.K., are organizing to complete the spring campaign to win 1,300 Militant subscribers, sell a similar number of books by revolutionary…